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Grive: Tales of Uncertainty

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 21, 2024
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Grive (photo: Philippe Mazzoni)

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Tags Agnès Gayraud, Autrenoir, cocteau twins, Dennis Lehane, Extreme Precautions, FOUDRE !, Grive, La Féline, Low, Mondkopf, Oiseaux-Tempête, Paul Régimbeau, Talitres

Features Interviews

Glass State: In Conversation with Sweet Williams’ Thomas House

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date May 12, 2023
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Thomas House (photo: Gabriela Soto)

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fhae: sombre thorax

fhae (photo: Amber Ramsay)

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Tags 4000 Records, cocteau twins, Efrim Menuck, Elizabeth Fraser, Ellena Ramsay, fhae, Grouper, Julianna Barwick, Lichen Slow, Malcolm Middleton

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Angelo Badalamenti: Absolute Sound and Vision

Post author By Sean Beardmore
Post date December 21, 2022
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Angelo Badalamenti

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Tags Andy Badale, Angelo Badalamenti, Blue Velvet, Bobby Vinton, cocteau twins, Danny Boyle, David Lynch, Irving Berlin, Isabella Rossellini, Jane Campion, Jean Pierre-Jeunet, Joel Schumacher, Julee Cruise, Nancy Wilson, Nicholas Cage, Nina Simone, Paul Schrader, Twin Peaks

Features Interviews

Polexia! Interview: “We actually have an eerily similar taste in music”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 9, 2022
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Polexia! (photo credit: Claire Welles)

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Tags cocteau twins, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Godflesh, Jezebel Halewood-Legas, Johanna Connolly, Justin Broadrick, Krzystof Penderecki, Kylie Minouge, Lene lovich, Lizzie Mercier Descloux, Nina Hagen and Malaria, Outsider Art, Polexia!, SPINE, Susan Janet Ballion

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Landing Interview: “We’re all modest and unassuming people”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 1, 2022
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Landing (photo provided by the artist)

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A Golden Sky: In Conversation with Damon & Naomi – Part 2

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 13, 2021
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Damon & Naomi (photo credit: Anabel Vazquex Rodriquez)

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Tags 20/20/20, cocteau twins, Damon & Naomi, Damon Krukowski, Galaxie 500, George Harrison, Jarvis Cocker, John Cage, Michio Kurihara, Naomi Yang, nirvana, Pulp, Richard Youngs, Suzanne Sassic

Deafheaven: Infinite Granite – “a band at their most self-effacing”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 20, 2021
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Deafheaven (photo credit: Robin Laananen)

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Tags American Football, Chris Johnson, cocteau twins, Daniel Tracy, Deafheaven, George Clarke, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Kerry McCoy, M83, Mike Kinsella, Sargent House, Shiv Mehra, The Armed, the cure, Touché Amore, Wolf Alice

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The Greatest Gift: Best EPs Ever Made

Post author By sun13banjo
Post date June 9, 2021
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MJ Guider Interview: “I didn’t set out with a specific inspiration for making the record other than my standard compulsion”

MJ Guider (photo credit: Craig Mulcahy)

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Tags Bowery Electric, cocteau twins, Julianna Barwick, Kranky, Less Bells, Melissa Guion, MJ Guider

Albums

A Buyers Guide to Cocteau Twins

Post author By sun13banjo
Post date August 6, 2020
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Cocteau Twins created a world of their own making and soundtracked it with some of the most perfect music ever recorded. Banjo looks into their essential releases and reports back

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Tags banshees, cocteau twins, dreampop, liz fraser, ride, robin guthrie, shoegaze, simon raymonde