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Album Review: Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising
It’s been four years since Natalie Mering, the soulful voice behind Weyes Blood released more music into the world. With the dawn of April, this soon changed, for which the avid fans and new fans alike are eternally grateful. Titanic Rising is a surreal concoction of magical realism, sultry tones, and psychedelic folk that lulls […]
Album Review: Deerhunter – Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?
Deerhunter’s eighth album Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? features more acoustic and Baroque influences with existential, trance-like lyrics as opposed to their trademark alt-rock style. It is fundamentally tethering itself to environmental and societal decay with scenes of dissatisfied workers immersed and trapped in a barren wasteland that has not quite yet “disappeared” but instead […]
Album Review: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana
The first of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s alleged 5 album releases coming this year kicks the newest set of material, since last year’s fantastic and mind-boggling Nonagon Infinity, off to a great start. The band hold on to their psyched-out garage-rock stylings with lo-fi, analogue sounding production and their 60s/70s psychedelic rock influences firmly worn on […]
Album Review: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity
P sychedelic rock is a tree with many branches, man. Many think of Pink Floyd’s cosmic atmospheres and soaring leads; sound that floats around your brain as you lie back on the grass, headphones in, and the clouds play out in a circus scene above you. Brick in the Wall turns into Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. […]
Poltimore Sessions | Bloom
Exeposé Music is proud to present – in collaboration with XTV and Poltimore Festival – Poltimore Sessions. Set at the historic Poltimore House, the coming sessions will showcase our favourite local musicians in the build-up to Poltimore 2016. BLOOM Meet Rory Mitchell, Sam Bowen, Ben Leftley and Luke Colwell, the Exeter-based four-piece more commonly known as Bloom. Confidently claiming a trademark meekness in performance, […]
Paint and pot
Picture the scene: your creative writing deadline is rapidly approaching, you’ve completely run out of ideas, and then the internet tells you that Ernest Hemingway – one of America’s most celebrated writers – once said: “write drunk, edit sober”. In such desperate (hypothetical) circumstances, you’d perhaps be forgiven for thinking that it might just work. […]