(Full Time Hobby)Born of the decision to go and live in the isolated town of Húsavík on the north coast of Iceland, Tunng frontman Mike Lindsay’s solo album draws on different sources from the folktronica group’s default palette, using local musician…
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Cheek Mountain Thief: Cheek Mountain Thief – review
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Eugene McGuinness: The Invitation to the Voyage – review
(Domino)There’s something utterly – if ineffably – British about McGuinness’s songs and perhaps that comes from his belief that “a bit of ruthless optimism is what it’s all about”. This sentiment seems to power this third album – a cocksure, jaun…
Spector: Enjoy it While it Lasts – review
(Fiction)Like a particularly hopeless dame in an especially repetitive melodrama, indie rock, so the story goes, is perpetually in need of saving. It’s a strangely persistent narrative, one that makes the British music press seem like some poor old esc…
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Antony and the Johnsons: Cut the World – review
(Rough Trade)Reykjavik’s grand new Harpa concert hall is a large, black, architecturally ambitious waterside edifice, a potent symbol of Iceland’s economic recovery. After their banks failed in 2008, Icelanders agreed that the men were to blame, and re…
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