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11th June 2015

GRACE LIGHTMAN

With her debut outing, Grace Lightman has done the seemingly impossible. Pop music has seen its fair share of songs consumed by heartbreak. In the face of them all, however, ‘Vapour Trails’ still somehow manages to sound fresh and...

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4th June 2015

FAMILY FRIENDS

Family Friends are an Australian and British, brother-sister led five-piece who have a penchant for old school equipment and recording. Their first single ‘On Your Mind’ is a raw and hazy ode to retro psychedelic and grunge. It has an Americanised...

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30th April 2015

DAUNT

Having racked up over 200,000 listens it’s safe to say that DAUNT’s ‘This Body Rushes’ has been well received. Online, there’s a bit of a mystery over whom or what DAUNT is, reportedly it’s a London based act, but...

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15th April 2015

FLEU

Fleu, pronounced ‘flow’, is a brand new duo signed to Odd Child Recordings. Odd Child is a label belonging to Simon Cowell’s Syco group, so it’s not surprising that this tune possesses catchy pop qualities. ‘Magic’ is squeaky clean...

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2nd April 2015

DAMIEN IKE

It feels as though there’s been a gradual loosening of the pernicious pomposity towards straight-up pop music in the last couple of years, even in the more ‘serious’ corners of the music press, which is pretty great. In these...

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26th March 2015

BO ROCHA

Getting your first track premiered by The Fader isn’t a bad way to start proceedings, and that’s exactly what new London artist Bo Rocha has done with ‘Tangerine Flake’. Cinematic, soothing and calm, the track is sparsely populated with...

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16th March 2015

MAJIK

I have to admit to a certain amount of trepidation on being asked to review London duo MAJIK as any purposeful misspelling of a word when used as a band name usually signals cod-funk or bland soul. Thankfully, new...

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26th February 2015

THE MOON

London based The Moon appear to be in that early stage of elusiveness still having released very little information about themselves up to this point. However, their first track ‘Eureka Moment’, a song that has a grunge-indie hybrid feel...

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22nd January 2015

PRETTY VICIOUS

Every once in a while there is a band that comes completely out of nowhere, unbeknownst to even the most informed in the respective local music scene. In the latter end of 2014, that band was Pretty Vicious. Emerging...

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