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As an exercise in singer-songwriter recordings, Mike Marlin's 'Man On The Ground' offers little that's new. As you might expect from the kind of balladeer Marlin presents himself to be, his songs are filled with self-chastisement/analysis ('The Magic

Edinburgh quintet The Machine Room drop their first EP after singles 'Girly' and 'Camino de Soda' met with approval from Radio 1's Ally McCrae and Edinburgh's Hogmanay, who had the latter over their street party PA, while fleecing tourists until th

Without the film, a score is a difficult thing to take in. It is a painter without a landscape, a script without the actors. Such is the nature of Ólafur Arnalds' latest project, the Icelandic multi-instrumentalist's soundtrack to the tale of dysfunc

The world of ambient electronica is a difficult one to break into – a handful of canonical artists imitated by a plethora of pretenders, with very few of them managing to mould their inspirations into a coherent sound of their own. Somehow, Jesse Rui

'In The Garden,' the opening track from Glaswegian outfit Die Hard's eponymous debut album, should in all theory lead straight into a wall of indie rock or a kaleidoscope of textures, its manipulated vocals and elongated synth notes not quite enough

On first listen, this second album from 6 Music favourites is intimate, warm and rather promising. As opening title track (version one) suggests this is the sound of a rather complex band who still manage to sound like Noah and the Whale, just with a

In a market filled with female vocalists coming to the fore in recent years both commercially and in indie circles, it is becoming ever so harder to unearth the real gems.  For every Adele and Duffy, there's always a Laura Veirs or Laura Marling, who