This Music Made Me
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C Duncan‘s debut album Architect was nominated for the 2015 Mercury Music Prize, and his music was featured in Waterloo Road. But the Glasgow-born composer has hardly rested on his laurels since. Just over a…
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Psychedelic pop duo Grumbling Fur are Ulver member and one-third of Æthenor (with Sunn O)))‘s Stephen O’Malley) Daniel O’Sullivan, and comic book artist and solo songwriter Alexander Tucker. Since 2011 they’ve been making music together,...
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Somehow, 12 years have elapsed since KT Tunstall showed up on Later… with Jools Holland with 24 hours’ notice and, with a loop pedal, acoustic guitar and tambourine, announced her talent with Black Horse...
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The Charlatans front man Tim Burgess has joined forces with New Yorker Peter Gordon to release a collaborative album called Same Language, Different Worlds. Burgess originally met Gordon in 2012, with the former already a...
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King Creosote – aka Kenny Anderson – is co-founder of the Fife-based Fence Collective, a veteran of some 40 solo albums and, with the 2011 album Diamond Mine, the sometime Mercury-nominated collaborator of Jon Hopkins....
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Back in 2001, Sophie Ellis-Bextor told the world that the groove was far more important than murder. While Murder On The Dancefloor made her name, she’s since gone on to release six studio albums, the...
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Laura Mvula‘s debut album Sing To The Moon, released back in 2013, was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, won its maker a pair of MOBOs and charted in the Top 10. The following...
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You – almost – need not hear a note to understand how wonderfully grandiose and pop-noirish the music of Catherine Anne Davis – aka The Anchoress – is. After all, the Welsh singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist-writer-academic’s debut album, released...
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From the rolling opener Something Tamed Something Wild, via an intimate, hymnal tribute to the pioneering Sister Rosetta Tharpe, to the stark, closing title track, The Things That We Are Made Of sees Mary Chapin...
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Since 2004’s Ballads Of Living And Dying, Marissa Nadler has been steadily releasing albums, veering between sparse, spectral folk and ink-black country ballads, with her voice the darkly sensuous, delicately rich velvet thread running throughout....
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The Field, vehicle for the music of Sweden-via-Berlin producer, artist, DJ, soundsmith and enigmatic front man rolled into one that is Axel Willner, has been a going concern since the stupendous 2007 debut full-length From...
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Five years on from second album Virtue, which widened the introspective indie-folk palette of her début to take in chiming pop, otherworldly orchestration and disco, Emma Lee Moss, aka London-based singer-songwriter Emmy The Great, is...
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Leftfield French electronic music gurus The Shoes have just put out their third, party-starting album Chemicals, a ludicrously eclectic genre-hop of a follow-up to 2011’s Crack My Bones. As with their last work, the Reims...
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Down the years, Warp-signed, California-originated, NYC-dwelling, shape-throwing disco funksters !!! (Chk Chk Chk) have been responsible for some outright, undisputed bangers. Must Be The Moon. Me & Giuliani Down By The School Yard. Heart Of Hearts. Occasionally...
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David McAlmont‘s startling voice has, down the years, found its owner involved with a variety of collaborators. He’s worked with latter day Bond music maker David Arnold – they recorded a version of Diamonds Are...
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Theo Hutchcraft guides us through the albums that have influenced him most.
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Gus Gus lynchpin Biggi Veira mines his memory for the albums that have influenced him most
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A minimalist master of the intricate and the intimate, Dustin O’Halloran, sometime founder of Devics, is a self-taught American pianist latterly based in Berlin who divides his time between purveying solo piano albums, composing for movies and...
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Ahead of the release of her third album Working Girl, Victoria Hesketh guides us through the LPs that have influenced her most
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On the music that has influenced her most, in her own words.
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David Gedge, founder of The Wedding Present and Cinerama, on the albums that have influenced him most.
Il barbiere di Siviglia review – much more than ‘shave and a haircut: two bits’
