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The album has been six years in the making, written and recorded across a nearly uninterrupted period of travel. The album features recently released songs "Aldehydes and Ketones" and "Sky Burial," both of which appear…
"Carrry That Weight" introduces Smith's personal world. The track is a statement that emerged from a spontaneous writing session with Hugo White, and was written in a single day, combining Smith's instinctive musical…
The decision follows a legal challenge by Jason Jones , who argued that the country’s Sexual Offences Act breached his constitutional rights. Read next Jones, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, began proceedings in…
The band are due to perform during the New England Patriots vs. Detroit Lions game this Sunday (November 15). Advertisement But ahead of that performance PETA are calling on the Cage The Elephant to temporarily change…
Fans could hear echoes of The Waitresses’ evergreen smash ‘Christmas Wrapping’, while UK onlookers noted a similarity to the Robbie Williams hit ‘Candy’. [embedded content] Nipping the debate in the bud, Robbie has…
And even if the songwriting occasionally plays second fiddle to the production, there’s still plenty here to savour. Take “Two in This Story”, which opens a trilogy of narrative tracks at the centre of the album, and…
The track is built around the mystery of an anonymous phone conversation, and the excitement of developing a connection with someone you don't know anything about. On Psycho Dance Sleaze , the band pushes deeper into the…
But then you begin to skim the tracklist, and keep skimming… and keep skimming. There are a whopping 36 tracks on this thing, presumably in the interest of keeping egos unbruised. You’d be forgiven – and correct – for…
The track is a traditional 19th-century folk song, an Appalachian murder ballad originally titled "Down in the Willow Garden", also known as "Rose Connelly". The song traces the story of a man put to death for poisoning…
"I am thrilled to work with two labels I’ve admired for a really long time," she says. "Loose Music and Fluff & Gravy have released some of my favorite albums of the past few years. Most important, they are true-blue…