Pete Astor - Tall Stories & New ReligionsAs the fiftieth birthday approaches, you get the sense that yourlife is thinning out and will continue to thin out, until it thins outinto nothing. And you sometimes say to yourself: that went a bitquick. In certain moods, you may want to put it rather moreforcefully. As in: OY!! THAT went a BIT FUCKING QUICK!!!then fifty comes and goes, and fifty one, and fifty two. And lifethickens out again. Because there is now an enormous andunsuspected presence

For Record Store Day’s September drop date this year

Arabic modes and entrancing folk minimalism back to the streets of New York

Please Don’t Take Me Back is the work of a band in the form of their life

These are love incantations that would be wrong to resist

Sleaford Mods and Modeselektor were among those on board from the off

there were more than enough songs recorded to fill up this tasty LP

only began performing together in the past year

on their own label

Britxotica was a unique blend of straight-laced sensibilities and an English perception of wild ethnicity

Two is balanced therefore stagnant

The whole of Under The Sun’s second side is a suite of three “Themes” written by Ian Carr

Pairing traditional spirituals and long-lost gospel classics with vintage soul and R&B tunes