Grammy Award-winning band Phoenix — Thomas Mars, Deck d’Arcy, Christian Mazzalai and Laurent Brancowitz — returns with Alpha Zulu, released via Glassnote Records. The album was inspired by Philippe Zdar of the band Cassius, who produced three of Phoenix’s albums and died in 2019.
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Wargirl is is a six-headed collective of like-minded people from different backgrounds and cultures that’s as unconventional as their unique brand of psychedelic-funk-rock, on display on their 2020 album Dancing Gold, released via Hamburg-based label Clouds Hill.
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Based in North London, alt pop duo Tender consists of Dan Cobb and James Cullen, two friends who started out in 2015 creating dark and seductive grooves that eventually got them signed to independent label Partisan Records. In 2019, the pair released their sophomore album Fear of Falling Asleep to some great reviews, praising their flawless melodies and powerful hooks.
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Spanish three-piece Lux Naturans (Jorge, Nacho and Olalla) is not an ordinary band. The three twenty-somethings have an insatiable thirst for experimentation, writing in different languages (Spanish, English and French) creating innovative emotion-laden soundscapes.
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New Zealand born and bred singer songwriter Phillipa ‘Pip’ Brown, better known to most as Ladyhawke, hasn’t had a solo release in half a decade (Wild Things, 2016), and it is fair to say that her fans have missed her compelling mix of pop, electronica and glam rock. To be fair, she’s been through a lot over the past couple of years, including getting married, moving back to New Zealand from LA, giving birth to her first child and, just a few months later, being diagnosed with melanoma. Now fully recovered and settled in Auckland, Brown has experienced the last year as a rebirth of sorts and this feeling shines through on her new album, Time Flies, which reflects her new-found sense of freedom and spontaneity.
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