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By Grant Sharples The image on Kississippi’s new album cover is striking: a chewed-up piece of pink bubblegum in an engagement-ring box. It’s the epitome of songwriter Zoe Renyolds’s music, which brims with neon overtones and dismal subtexts, and the bubblegum is a visual...
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BUY THE VAN MORRISON ULTIMATE MUSIC GUIDE HERE It’s the burden of a legendary performer to be a figure on whom everyone has an opinion. Some rise above it all, the books, the speculation, because they’re the ones who know the real story and,...
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Michael Small The Parallax View: Original Soundtrack
“If the picture works,” director Alan J Pakula said of 1974’s The Parallax View, “the audience will trust the person sitting next to them a little less at the end of the film.” The Parallax View is a key paranoia-conspiracy movie from a decade...
Various Artists Fire Over Babylon: Dread, Peace & Conscious Sounds at Studio One
Over the past few decades, Soul Jazz have made a name for themselves with stylish, smartly conceptualised comps. Their curatorial touch is sure but lightly applied, and if they sometimes skirt predictability, there’s something to be said for the reliability of their approach, particularly...
Van Morrison The Ultimate Music Guide
As the man rides a surging wave of creativity, and returns to playing live, we present the deluxe, updated Ultimate Music Guide to Van Morrison. In-depth writing on (and revealing interviews from) all eras of Van’s work: from Them to Latest Record Project, via...
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