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Tunng: Love You All Over Again. Cover art: Lilias Buchanan
New album: A beautiful, celebratory album of the pioneering British ‘folktronica’ band’s 20 years of music, with an eighth LP of brand new songs fully capturing their distinctive, delicate, crisply poetic, agile style with a delicious feeling of circularity.
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Animal is the second LUMP album by Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay
New album: With a suite of exquisite sounds from flutes to the soft thunk of bass and ethereal vocals, the second album by Laura Marling and Tunng’s Mike Lindsay is a little more stripped back than the first, but still brings otherworldly beauty
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Lianne La Havas, Fiona Apple and Yves Tumor are among three artists who have released outstanding LPs
Albums of 2020 roundup: A year of lockdowns, alternative sounds, experimentation and surprises. This is the first half two roundups of a total over 50 favourite albums of the year that musicians stayed at home. And here’s Part 2.
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This week’s magic nine
Album reviews roundup: an exceptionally experimental and original lineup includes Tunng’s special death project, Iceland’s Olafur Arnalds at his most vulnerable, Tiña, the cosmic jazz funk of Planet Battagon, and for balance, some Kylie disco
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From Paul Thomas Anderson’s film to Thom Yorke’s Anima
The latest roundup includes the Radiohead frontman’s collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson, a return for The Black Keys, beautiful heights by The Tallest Man On Earth, plus a variety of indie, pop and mostly folk in many forms
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Gazelle Twin - aka Elizabeth Bernholz, pushing the musical boundaries on Brexit Britain, past and present, with her extraordinary album Pastoral
The second part of our roundup of outstanding albums of 2018, in alphabetical order by title, marked by a number of great debuts from young bands, as well as more established artists releasing their best work to date
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Tunng – Songs You Make At Night
Our bumper roundup includes a welcome return to the folktronica innovators Tunng, plus White Denim, Mark Lanegan, a concept album from the Lemon Twigs, 80s-style pop from Her’s, and the soul star Candi Staton
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LUMP: Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay, inspired by the hairy one
This week we lavish you with a bumper crop of top-quality LPs: ethereal beauty in a Laura Marling collaboration, Father John Misty parodying narcissism, brilliant Brooklyn punk band Bodega, blues funk from Warmduscher, and superb solo female work by Neko Case and Natalie Prass
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