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The Besnard Lakes: The Besnard Lakes Are the Ghost Nation

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Post date October 7, 2025
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The Besnard Lakes (photo: Isabel Rancier)

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Tags Full Time Hobby, Gabriel Lambert, Jace Lasek, Kevin Laing, Mercury Rev, Olga Goreas, Pink Floyd, Roy Orbison, Sheenah Ko, The Besnard Lakes

Live Opinion

Flower-Corsano Duo, Jonathan Raisin & Nick Branton @ House Show, Liverpool – 17/07/2025

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Post date July 21, 2025
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Flower-Corsano Duo (photo: Simon Kirk)

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Tags Bill Orcutt, Chris Corsano, Ex-Easter Island Head, Fire Nearby, Flower-Corsano Duo, Haress, Mercury Rev, Michael Flower, Quarry, Six Organs of Admittance, Yann Tiersen

Albums Features

On the Precipice: Low’s The Great Destroyer 20th anniversary

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Post date January 24, 2025
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Low - The Great Destroyer

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Tags Alan Sparhawk, Dave Fridmann, Denise Sullivan, Emmylou, Go-Betweens, Gram Parsons, Grant McLennan, Low, Mercury Rev, Mimi Parker, Neil Young, Retribution Gospel Choir, Robert Forster, Robert Plant, Sub Pop, Zak Sally

Sea Power: Everything Was Forever

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Post date March 2, 2022
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Sea Power (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page)

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Tags Abi Fry, Bark Psychosis, British Sea Power, glastonbury, Golden Chariot Records, Graham Sutton, Martin Noble, Matthew Wood, Mercury Rev, Neil Wilkinson, Phil Sumner, Scott Wilkinson, Sea Power, Splendour In The Grass, The Chameleons, Wembley

Tim Bowness: Late Night Laments – “Music for open spaces”

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Post date August 28, 2020
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The No-Man singer returns with his sixth solo album and second in as many years.

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Tags Mercury Rev, No-Man, Philip Selway, Porcupine Tree, Richard Barbieri, Tim Bowness