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The anonymous producer's self-titled debut album (launched by way of our mates at Younger Turks) pulls off a sequence of spectacular feats: it is bursting with fresh ideas, and yet it sounds instantly acquainted; it is warm but gritty, pussy licking playful but critically powerful. George Lewis Jnr aka TWIN SHADOW's debut album is as intriguing as his upbringing.

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It is sparse and filled with reverb and kontol like all our favourite Nineties women' albums rolled into one. Simple to like' says Pitchfork of GLASSER, the one-woman orchestra of Cameron Mesirow; 'simple to love' say we.

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East London by way of Southend-On-Sea band THE HORRORS have come a good distance since 2005, when they graced the cowl of the NME with eye-linered eyes, massive hair, an eff-you perspective and barely a single (the spiky 'Sheena Is A Parasite') to their identify. Freeman, Nate. "Lana Del Rey to Channel David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" as the Face of H&M's New International Campaign".

Stelmanis, together with fellow Canadians, drummer Maya Postepski and bassist Dorian Wolf, have crafted a darkly hypnotic album, not fairly dance music but made for night-time. Previous albums Alas, I Cannot Swim and that i Speak Because I Can have been each nominated for the Mercury Prize (the latter earning her a 2011 Brit Award and NME Award for Greatest Solo Artist) but her new album, A Creature I Don't know, is maybe her finest but.

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