When Cold Cave frontman Wesley Eisold announced a new single-song 7” entitled “God Made the World”, he accompanied it with an upcoming tour announcement and a gentle yet firm Tumblr post that he was happy making music alone for the time being. “For now,” he wrote, “know my heart is extended to you whom I do this for.”
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Martin Wheeler gives up a new album themed and sounding like it could soundtrack an episode of Chalrie Brooker's Black Mirror series.
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First single off up and coming Ep "Dream Album" that will be released via SLEEPY BEACH records.
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All the synth parts are performed on a mattson mini modular
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Now, following extended tussles over mixes and copyright, they're finally releasing the leftovers from their final sessions with Hook: six previously unheard songs, plus one remixed Sirens' Call track and the awesome "Hellbent", which appeared on the 2011 Joy Division/New Order singles cash-in, Total.
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The one-word titles of Pet Shop Boys albums always repay a second look and so it proves with Format, the name of their second volume of B-sides, covering 1995-2009.
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New Funk Millenium is a relaxed journey through a beautiful soundscape, a great foreshadowing for what the rest of the album titled Ecozoic may include.
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Weekender is a dream pop band from Philadelphia.
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The Ocean Blue's first full album of new material since 1999's Davy Jones' Locker, 2013's Ultramarine, is a mature, bittersweet collection of melodic guitar and synth-driven pop that ranks among the best of the band's work.
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