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New cut from forthcoming second album, and it's a cracker
The Soft Moon have a new album, as we’ve previously reported – Zeros hits shelves on November 5 via Captured Tracks. We posted ‘Die Life’ back then, now here’s the resolutely ace ‘Insides’, all waves of digital distortion and a recurring Cure-esque keyboard line. Download with as much haste as your bandwidth can muster.
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As Steven Claydon celebrates his first major show in a Swiss institution, at the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva, the British artist talks to Robert Barry about his double life as artist and musician, from Add N To (X) to JackTooJack and beyond
Reflecting on the death of Daniel Johnston and the spat between Lana Del Rey and the critic Ann Powers, Jazz Monroe explores how fandom can't hinge on the artist’s intention, and that artists don't need to 'earn' profundity - listeners have the power to give it.
The godfather of grime takes Manu Ekanayake through thirteen favourite tracks, that soundtracked his journey through his part in the birth of grime, scaling tower blocks to set up pirate radio aerials, his hiatus following a mental breakdown, and helming chaotic raves from Milton Keynes to Ayia Napa
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