lilo - Blood TiesOne of the best new British bands around, lilo are releasing their debut album exclusively on vinyl first as a Dinked Edition, presenting it in a stunning mirri board gatefold sleeve and pressing it on glass clear vinyl with a bonus 7 added. Friends since meeting in their first week at secondary school, Christie Gardner and Helen Dixon write songs that cut deep, reflecting the life of twenty somethings, in and out of love and luck. While informed by a

and represents the start of his communal “mystical” period

You could read the whole album as being an escape from the trappings of the modern material world

including Joe Harriott

he whiles away time in a crumbling duplex with blues legend Furry Lewis

As mastermind and ringleader of the smeared electronic production sound that defined and established ‰Û÷chillwave‰۪åÊbefore hipsters rode it within an inch of its life (see 2010‰۪s Causers of This)

Vestiges & Claws is a(nother) hushed and delicate solo set that forefronts the artist and guitarist‰۪s compellingly intimate vocal style and intricate playing technique

who is also in the band Low

frontman and slide player Jeffrey Lee Pierce and his band were literally on fire

in which the synthpop musician found himself struggling to settle into life as a ‰ÛÏfamous‰۝ person

meaning it was recorded in one small room with no headphones

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'Overflowing Cup' is a narrative