Review: Lore City ‘Participation Mystique’
Tonight, I’m sitting here typing up my review of the new album by Lore City, entitled Participation Mystique, and the
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Shoegaze
Review: Great North Star ‘Great North Star’
Thirty years. Three decades. A trio of decades. Either way it’s a long time. For most of us, I doubt
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Review: Deafheaven ‘Infinite Granite’
There’s almost a sliding doors moment between Deafheaven’s latest offering and their last studio outing, 2018s Ordinary Corrupt Human Love,
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Introducing: Great North Star – Debut Album To Get Vinyl Release Via The Acid Test Recordings
Great North Star are quite possibly a new band to readers of The Shaman. This Manchester based duo offer sublime
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Review: 7Mondays ‘Sent’ EP
I’m a big fan of spring, just warm enough so I’m not burnt to a crisp but also taking us
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Review: Black Moon Mother ‘Illusions Under The Sun’
Sometimes, something comes along, and right from the initial stages, it has you hooked, and you know you need to
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Review: Crawl Below ‘9 Mile Square’
It’s a peculiarly British trait that musicians generally don’t write and perform songs about where they’re from. There are of course
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neànder – Interview With Jan Korbach
Berlin based instrumental 4 piece band neànder have been described as post-doom, post-metal and stoner amongst other things, however the
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Review: neànder ‘Eremit’
neànder evoke much musically but for this writer the words ‘powerfully cinematic’ are the first two that come to mind.
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Review: Svalbard ‘When I Die, Will I Get Better?’
Picture the scene, its two thousand and eleven, and the music gods breathe their first breaths into Bristol quartet Svalbard.
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Review: Kairon; IRSE! ‘Polysomn’
There’s a particular quality to the best music that can only be described as a kind of ethereal comfort. Music
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