Monthly Archives: February 2019

the lovely sparrows

With its strange ad hoc skipping rhythms and adoring lolloping motifs, there’s a familiar cosy warmth spraying from the Lovely Sparrows’ ‘shake the shadow’ – a delightfully dizzy folk dreamer which if I recall rightly seeing, is part inspired by … Continue reading

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galerie stratique

At once orphaned and melancholic, yet touched by a celestial otherly, this is ‘horizons lointains’, a track culled from a lost 2003 full length by Galerie Stratique entitled ‘horizzzons’ now repressed and re-released on Norman records in house print Public … Continue reading

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kitchen cynics

Staying with reverb worship for something that thus far has managed to sneak beneath our radar, this is the Kitchen Cynics with a track from their limited press ‘our flimsy craft’ CD entitled ‘Rosemary and her Burdens’ which as someone … Continue reading

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Merle Bardenoir & Tertön

Here’s something a little special available on limited press from the Reverb Worship folk from Merle Bardenoir & Tertön. A 5 track gathering of what’s described by the label as ‘French neo folk’, both mysterious and somewhat deceptive in so … Continue reading

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john myrtle

We’ve been a tad discombobulated these last few days which has had the impact of having us a little behind with the planned reviews, so apologies for that. Mind you with the appearance of what’s being described as a ‘heatwave’, … Continue reading

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SEN3

So hot off the presses that the ink is still drying on the CD, this’un, a last minute addition to FruitS de Mer’s already admirably admired back catalogue is from SEN3. There’s something of an urgency to get word out … Continue reading

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exclusive play – Everest Magma

‘minus plus escapism’ the third album from Everest Magma, is a gloriously warm tapestry weaved with rustic idylls (the very Dungen like ‘B2’) spun from lost tongues and psych folk mirages all fused with a deep sense of its surroundings. … Continue reading

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the hollow dolly

Mentioned a few days ago – see https://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2019/02/22/the-hollow-dolly/ – this is the newly framed video accompanying the track ‘I have seen the future it is murder’ by duo the hollow dolly, be warned, this will break hearts …….

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you don’t have to be fashionable – volume 7

As promised back earlier in the week, rounding up that latest and very excellent ‘you don’t have to be fashionable’ compilation from the folks over at the with a Messy Head sound house, this incidentally Volume 7 (see https://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/you-dont-have-to-fashionable-volume-7/ for … Continue reading

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pull the plug

Episode 393 of Pull the Plug’s weekly transmissions might well be their finest yet not least because it pricked our earlobes with two scabbing snot nosed cuties from the much admired Born Shit Stirrers who random readers of these optimistically … Continue reading

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