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<i>Settle</i>
Disclosure
Settle

Words by Tom Lea •  7th June 2013 • 
Available on: PMR LP Speaking to FACT last year, Ben Parmar, one half of the team behind record label PMR, outlined his plan to “change people’s perception of what pop music is and what it [...]
<i>Getting Closer</i>
CLOSE
Getting Closer

Words by Angus Finlayson •  6th June 2013 • 
  Available on: !K7 LP Will Saul has benefitted hugely from the UK’s recent turn to house music. His label Simple was a source of solid, if not always stunning, house throughout the noughtie [...]
<em>…Like Clockwork</em>
Queens of the Stone Age
…Like Clockwork

Words by Chris Kelly •  5th June 2013 • 
Available on: Matador LP As the title of Queens of the Stone Age’s sixth album suggests, no other band of their generation has turned out such fully-formed, unforgiving albums with such regul [...]
<i>Rinse 22</I>
Kode9
Rinse 22

Words by Maya Kalev •  4th June 2013 • 
Available on: Rinse CD It’s a bit of a shock when you discover that once-innovators are as apt to fall prey to trends as anyone else. So it goes with Kode9’s new mix CD for pirate-turned-l [...]
<i>Cold Spring Fault Less Youth</i>
Mount Kimbie
Cold Spring Fault Less Youth

Words by Steve Shaw •  4th June 2013 • 
Available on: Warp LP Having spent the 10 ten years or so rearranging the focus of their roster, it comes as no surprise that Warp picked up Mount Kimbie for their second album Cold Spring  [...]
<I>Crawling Up The Stairs</i>
Pure X
Crawling Up The Stairs

Words by Steve Shaw •  3rd June 2013 • 
Available on: Acephale LP  For Pure X, The Difficult Second Album was never really going to be more difficult than the circumstances leading to its creation: drummer Austin Youngblood finally [...]
<em>Obsidian</em>
Baths
Obsidian

Words by Chris Kelly •  31st May 2013 • 
Available on: Anticon In 2010, Will Wiesenfeld marked the end of one project and began another, releasing The Fabric under his Post-Foetus moniker and then inaugurating Baths with the Cerulean  [...]
<i>Chapter II</I>
Benga
Chapter II

Words by Lauren Martin •  30th May 2013 • 
Available on: Columbia LP The dubstep self portrait is in some ways just what you'd expect it to be – hyper-masculine severity dressed up in market stall street wear – but it can be tellin [...]
<I>Behind the Green Door</i>
Laurel Halo
Behind the Green Door

Words by Maya Kalev •  29th May 2013 • 
Available on: Hyperdub EP Whether they reference mind control programmes (‘MK Ultra’), particle physics (‘Supersymmetry’) or Philip K. Dick novels (King Felix, which she also adopted a [...]
<i>IV Play</i>
The-Dream
IV Play

28th May 2013 • 
Available on: Def Jam LP Let's talk about the elephant in the room. Terius Nash is responsible for some of the biggest radio singles in recent memory and although he may not be as prolific as  [...]
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