Author: Paper Champion
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Hear This: 100 gecs – Doritos & Fritos
Three minutes of warped pop glory, this feels a bit more like a traditional band than a lot of 100 gecs previous work (which has had me wondering where they even find the sounds they use). The lyrics are silly, the video is silly, whole concept is silly but sometimes music being a bit daft…
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Hear This: Bag of Cans – Hair of the Dog
Bold move from Bag of Cans, who have decided to move away from the usual Friday release date for new singles, skipping out on all the new release playlists online and the publicity they bring, and put it out on the same day as Eurovision and the FA Cup Final. Maybe deep down they knew…
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Hear This: Lake Malice – Magic Square
A thick, well produced, deluge of riffs and electronics from this duo, guitarist Blake bringing no shortage of riffs while vocalist Alice goes effortlessly from blood curdling screams to nicely sung lines. A song about the rise of the true crime documentary over the pandemics (something I’ve admittedly fallen into at times) the dark subject…
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Hear This: Lauran Hibberd – Step Mum
A really fun burst of slacker pop, Step Mum is a mixture of funny lines, catchy hooks and fuzzy guitars. The interesting vocal style is fairly quirky but it works really well in this fast paced two minutes of energy. Lauran Hibberd says “I just realised there were not enough songs in the world about…
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Gallery: Confession @ Coda – 11th May 2022. Ft Dirty Donations, Unit 33 & Reverent Son
Some photos from Coda’s monthly metal night, presented by Impious Spirit. Featuring sets from Reverent Son (Ironmonger was a beast of a track from them!), Unit 33 and Dirty Donations. A good night of hard rock and metal.
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Hear This: black midi – Welcome To Hell
I’ll start by saying the one thing I don’t like about this track, the vocals. There’s something about them just I just don’t enjoy; they’re very marmite, some people love them, some people hate them. With that out of the way, Welcome To Hell is yet another rung in the ladder of black midi‘s increasing…
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Hear This: Clean Cut Kid – Little Black Space
A nice burst of indie pop from Liverpool’s Clean Cut Kid. A retro production style works well alongside the anthemic chorus to the song, a catchy hook that’ll no doubt get people dancing in festival crowds over the summer. Quite a pleasant listen! Apparently they produced the album, in it’s analogue slightly lo-fi glory, themselves…
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Hear This: David Gould – Half Way House
I’ve been a fan of David’s music for a while now – I admire his guitar playing but over the last few years his production has definitely stepped up a few gears. Halfway House was released at the end of March but it’s one that’s still getting fairly regular plays. The song is based around…
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Hear This: Babii – Liite
I’m never sure what genre of music this falls under. A wonderful, ethereal, few minutes of electronic music with vocals which sort of lightly glide into your ears. It’s quite relaxing yet there is quite a lot going on in the three minutes of music, enough to merit a few repeat listens to hear all…
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Hear This: Stu E Skinner – Healing Water
The single version of Healing Water, the new track from Stu E Skinner, is a great example of tactfully fleshing out an acoustic track – the extra elements; the slide guitar, the gentle kick, the bass part and the occasional keys at no point overpower the main finger picked base to the song. Because at…
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