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Paint it Black: Saints in The Wethouse by Blackhaine

The "debut album" by the Preston-born musician, rapper and choreographer establishes Blackhaine as one of the most confident voices in the new Northern Gothic scene developing around Yorkshire and Lancashire Credit: Archie Finch In the film, The King (2019), we see a stubborn Dauphin of France attempting to end the Battle of Agincourt through a duel with King Henry. Heavy rainfall has left the ground entirely sodden, and before a single blow is dealt, the Dauphin is slipping and sliding around the squelchy ground, falling over and over again. He is tragically defenceless and vulnerable as he p

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Album Of The Week: Krill Secret Language

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A Dream Within a Dream: Manifold of Partially Actualized Realities by Randall Dunn

The American composer, producer and audio engineer warps time and space on a slow-burning album that riffs on Philip K. Dick's "orthogonal" temporalities Photo credit Charmaine Lee Imagine your entire life, your entire world, being dreamed into existence by a creator who, night after night, gradually gives shape to your being, only to discover that he, too, is someone else’s dream. This is the premise of Jorge Luis Borges’ short story ‘The Circular Ruins’, after which Randall Dunn christened his Brooklyn studio. He’s the man behind the production of some of the highest peaks in experimental me

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Album Of The Week: Willi Carlisle The Universal Bubba

“It’s a record that should sound like getting drunk at the civil war re-enactment, cruising for tail at the cattle auction, dropping acid at the square dance.” That’s Willi Carlisle, in song-by-song notes accompanying his new The Universal Bubba , explaining his intentions for the project. Out this Friday, it’s the most ambitious work yet from the Arkansas country-rocker and “big tent folksinger” — a double album co-produced by Americana superstar Tyler Childers, meant to celebrate and subvert Southern culture in all its glory. It works like it’s supposed to. The post Album Of The Week: Willi

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