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Black Stabat Mater

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'Approaching/On Arrival' is the first track from the Hedvig Mollestad Trio's latest album 'Black Stabat Mater'. This track highlights the range of Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen's guitar playing culminating in a closing section of angry overdriven noise. Superb. I just need to revisit their previous album 2013's 'All Them Witches' - can't wait!

Plastic Plant

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Thee Oh Sees latest album 'A Weird Exits' is pretty cool and there is no finer way to kick-start a working day than with 'Plastic Plant' a psych workout with a humming bassline... ...more to follow

New Song

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I have a confused relationship with the music of Warpaint.  Art its best their music has an unfocused quality with a submerged bass sound, heavily rhythmic married to unusual vocal harmonies. I love this dreamlike style, but it's one which, for me at least, they haven't quite managed to fully realise on album. I was originally drawn to them by the song 'Undertow' from their debut album 'The Fool' which encapsulates that underplayed woozy style. The follow-up album simply titled 'Warpaint' further emphasised that dream-like quality to their writing and playing. In spite of this the second album didn't quite deliver what it promised for me, though I do find the superimposed images of the cover especially good :-) 'Warpaint' also resulted in the release of a video coupling two of its tracks, namely 'Disco//Very' and 'Keep It Healthy', which includes some rather hypnotic dancing by Jenny Lee Lindberg!