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Just started listening to the new album from Patrick Watson, the band fronted by the Canadian singer-songwriter of the same name. It was the album title, Love Songs for Robots, that first caught my eye when it popped up on an Apple music playlist but the music has me totally
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Hope you had a lovely weekend! After a late, coffee-fuelled finish at work Friday evening, I took Saturday very, very easy. To celebrate Record Store Day, Ben and I popped into Tower Records, where I picked up a lovely 7" limited edition vinyl of Palomino, Gemma Hayes' new
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Then I look at you. And the world's alright with me. Beautiful cover of Bill Withers' classic by Alt J.
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Beautiful new track and making of vid from one of my all-time favourites, Gemma Hayes. I love learning about the mechanics of a song, how it came about, what ideas sparked together – in this case, how a photographer's work inspired the lyrics. Watch it below. PS. Lovely interview
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Do you use 8tracks? I discovered it through Susannah Conway (who has some great mixes). If compilation tapes had an online home, this would be it. I love how people create mixes for all sorts of reasons – there are workouts mixes, mediation mixes, productivity mixes, love mixes, and more. It&
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I spent a few hours yesterday evening editing pics and getting lost in Mick Flannery's new album, By The Rule. His songs are dripping with melancholy, but there is something really cathartic and restorative about their vulnerability. I've been lucky enough to see him live a
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You may have heard this doing the rounds already, but a friend sent this to me last week and I can't get enough of it. Ellie Goulding, covering Kodaline's All I Want. Her cover of Alt J's Tessellate is also pretty awesome. // Graphic above
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I'm pretty late to the Alt J party, but Ben has been listening to them a lot and it feels like every time he plays something I like and I ask what it is, it's these guys. Here are three things the internet told me about
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I haven't even begun editing my Electric Picnic pics, but thought a GIF of the Friday night fireworks would be a fitting illustration to this quote, taken from this beautiful piece Caitlin Moran wrote to her daughter. Kids or no kids, it may bring a tear to your
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The xx were brilliant last night. I love how cool and aloof they looked on stage, and how that juxtaposes with their earnest, soulful lyrics. There's something so plaintive and beautiful about lines like "You move through the room / Like breathing was easy / If someone believed me
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnBfZQbWyWc] Does this make you want to go to Electric Picnic or what? Gorgeous vid by Antidote. It also reminded me that I never posted my shots from last year's EP. Why? I haven't a breeze. But going through
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Ever since hearing this at the Irish premiere of The Great Gatsby (I so wish I'd brought my camera – some people really got their 1920s-themed glad rags on!) I've had it on repeat. It's so hauntingly gorgeous, and is weaved beautifully into the movie