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             After breaking into popular consciousness with his widely esteemed 2010 release Swim, Dan Snaith returns once again under the moniker Caribou to bring us another intricately crafted record which, in expected form, is as intelligent and entrancing as it is soulful and euphoric....

A recent explosion of young electro based artists has started to create a little monotony, but Nordic project Asgeir has created a sound of his own. Iceland is undergoing a revolution and the volcanic island’s musical scene has come a long way since the days of Bjork and the...

The fifth full-length release from the Los Angeles producer Flying Lotus, You’re Dead!, starts off incredibly hectic. Opening track, ’Theme’, sounds like a great orchestra warming up and tuning their instruments, preparing for the fast paced, scatty tempo that is to come. As with much of Flying Lotus’s work, it’s...

Denmark’s finest confirm themselves as the band of our generation with their third album – a captivating concoction of contemporary, accessible punk and beautiful, experimental post-punk. Their second, You’re Nothing, was an undoubted musical progression from 2011’s brutal debut New Brigade, but the hyperbola of their progress grows ever...

            How best to describe The Phantom Band? The Scottish six-piece, formed in 2002, have notoriously become as difficult to pin down in terms of genre as it was for the group to finally settle on the name ‘The Phantom Band’ – this, in itself, a reference to their...

After a whirlwind summer, Rae Morris was winding down with one of her last festivals of the year, Leeds Festival. She has toured with Bombay Bicycle, produced a spectacular EP and become a favourite of BBC’s music scene. Impact interviewed Rae Morris just before her headline slot on the BBC...

“We’re in the dressing room opposite The Fall”. The interview with Sleaford Mods is momentarily broken as Lia from Fat White Family leans in to have a chat with his mates. Both acts are at the forefront of a new wave in music which is leaving established bands thrown...