The Monks - Black Monk TimeToday, 'garage,' 'psych,' and 'punk' are three overused words to say the least. They're dropped from every direction to brand, market, and sell, but looking back to the mid 1960s, there was only one group of musical mavericks that clearly defined them. The Monks were five beat playing American gis stationed in Germany who, after their discharge, decided to stay and continue their musical mission. Meeting up with a team of local managers, they

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Half Japanese manages to combine elements of every genre imaginable into one strange

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It soon became 'the' grime album of the year and has carried the grime scene over to the commercial mainstream which looks set to continue into 2016 and beyond

Features a satisfying blend of familiar (Bob Luman

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which spiders out from an Alice Coltrane-inspired reverie into a sustained rapture that very few artists have managed to achieve

Recorded in three days in December last year at British Grove Studios in West London

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CD - 25 Tracks

due on Rough Trade Records

Their debut album ‰Û÷Conversations‰۪ displays the intricate construction and intimacy of The xx and the iridescent shimmer of Summer-defining indie pop