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Allo Darlin' is the performing name of the lovely and warming Elizabeth Morris (and accomplices), who moved to London from Australia in 2005. A few musical endeavours and quiet attempts at songwriting later, and she has become a new staple of London's indie-pop carousel thanks to her prowess at crafting simple but thoroughly affecting and mature songs on the ukulele. If anything, it seems that the instrument's pick-up-and-play accessibility has made the songs exactly that–accessible. Simplicity results in a clear, emotional and whimsical album. It's almost too easy to call it twee. Morris is affectionate to the city that bore the album, but constantly aware that there's much more in the world to discover. The album's most bittersweet moment, Let's Go Swimming, goes beyond that inevitable twee tag to reveal something more plainly affecting. She beautifully describes a lake in Sweden and then reels off a list of London stereotypes that couldn't possibly compare to it. \"All of the hipsters in Shoreditch could never style it,\" is the line that rings most truthfully here, but the whole song is lovingly rendered, caked in gliding slide guitar and feathery bass. A special recording. Though inevitable comparisons to fellow Aussies The Lucksmiths and The Go-Betweens will undoubtedly accompany Allo Darlin' wherever they are heard, they are possessive of something quite different to those bands. Having hailed partly from another country and inhabited London so roundly and fully (or so it sounds), they have the benefit of being able to step back from these locales and comment more widely on those themes of loneliness and inability to fit in. The boldest of those themes, perhaps, is a sense that their professional endeavours are futile when they could be earning a packet doing something else. Not that you'd be worried about when they're making it sound so wonderfully bright and easy. Kiss Your Lips is the twee template executed perfectly. Weighing up lyrical unease with musical joie de vivre is a sure-fire way to involve the listener, and the struggle of part-time musicians it ably references rings true. Between the bounce of the lighter numbers and the ache of the sweet ones, there's all manner of winningly realistic insights veiled underneath the music. 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There's a strong wit and sense of humour at work here, and a very unique voice. Calling it 'folk' or 'pop' really only tells part of the story - Withered Hand's music is beautiful, melodic, honest and beyond easy categorization.Digipack CDHeavyweight LP in Gatefold sleeve with download. 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Kicking it against sexism and homophobia, nothing is off-limits, drawing inspiration from DIY scenes such as Riot Grrrl \/ noisepop \/ C86 \/ K-Records as well as post hardcore like Drive Like Jehu \/ Converge and the art rock of The Velvet Underground and My Bloody Valentine, Joanna Gruesome offer a staggeringly diverse album, unexpectedly quiet and surprisingly loud. 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Produced by Bernard Butler, London trio Flowers's debut album 'Do What You Want To, It's What You Should Do' captures the intensity of being young in fourteen deceptively simple pop songs that take their power from their brevity, elevated by Rachel Kenedy's extraordinary voice. Most of the songs weigh in at less than three minutes, a deliberate strategy for a band that seeks strength in simplicity. Indeed, Flowers' genius is in their ability to convey a remarkable amount of emotion with minimal instrumentation. Rachel possesses one of those beautiful pop voices to die for, with echoes of Elizabeth Fraser, Hope Sandoval and Harriet Wheeler, whilst Sam's guitars chime and churn with an incredible intensity and Jordan's drums rip right through with urgency and precision, resulting in a beautiful album that conjures up a strange and entrancing sort of magic. 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It was written at a time of considerable change for songwriter Elizabeth Morris, a time during which she fell in love, moved to Italy and got married - not that that seems to have hindered the songwriting process. They then returned to their spiritual home of Soup Studios. The intention was to capture a more instinctive and fluid live studio sound and to play as well as possible while the red button was on, a different approach to the more piecemeal recording of their previous two albums. 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The heroine in McAndrew's comic is a 'split' between Joanna Gruesome front woman Alanna McArdle and Meredith Graves of Perfect Pussy, who battles misogynists, online trolls and haters everywhere. The EP is co-released by Fortuna Pop!, Captured Tracks and Slumberland. The two JG tracks here follow their recently released split EP with Trust Fund and represent some of the first new material to be heard from the band since the release of 'Weird Sister' and, in lead track 'Psykick Espionage' a taste of their new album to be released in the first half of 2015. 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