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So I made a Telecaster…

Biggest surprise is how good the pickups sound and how well they take some dirt.

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Effects pedal of the day: TC Electronic June 60 chorus – Roland synth inspired but also great for Leslie rotary speaker guitar sounds

One chorus is slow and expansive while the other is a little faster and wobblier but combined together they sort of dance around each other which can sound a bit like a rotating Leslie speaker.

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Review: Lucy Gooch’s transcendent new single Chained To A Woman

Played with dreamy abandon, Chained To A Woman slowly reveals its character – a strong voice dancing around her own choir, somehow both melancholy and triumphant in the same beguiling passage.

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Album review: _Interval by Autism – a dazzling trip through an electronica solar system

This is an album of ideas. Sometimes it glides between them; sometimes it leaps. One thing remains constant, however – the urge to explore.

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The kaleidoscopic haze of Doves’ new album The Universal Want

Revolving catchy melodies tangle themselves up and around Phil Spectoresque walls of sound like enchanting ivy.

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Unravelling Camilla Bruce’s You Let Me In: A novel that concocts mysticism and mystery

Faeries, we are told, do not exist. But what if we see them? What if they come into lives and completely change our paths and that of those around us? What if these mystical creatures manifest themselves in a real life mystery? What if their light helps overcome our darkness? Camilla Bruce’s You Let Me…

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Review: Childhood – Two Novellas by Gerard Reve

Pushkin Press helped bring Reve’s masterwork The Evenings to wider attention and now they’ve followed it up with another beautifully artworked addition for your European literature shelf.

Margaret Millar’s lost crime novel Vanish in an Instant has returned and it’s a killer read

What I love about Margaret Millar is that you know she’s playing with you but she only lets you get close enough to see the shadows of her deception.

Short story lovers must read this beautifully devastating new Akiyuki Nosaka collection

There is a paradox in all great short stories: they leave large marks that bely their stature. Like a tiny comet crashing to Earth, they are brilliantly devastating forces of nature that make a hell of a profound impact.

Debussy’s Clair de lune – my extended ambient piano rework MUSIC VIDEO

I’ve slowed down the tempo significantly in an experiment to see if I could create a new soundscape out of something familiar. Hopefully someone finds it relaxing!

Book review: Frédéric Dard’s vintage noir The Gravediggers’ Bread is begging to be exhumed

Dard is brilliant at describing the unspoken tones of noir – the creeping dread, the red-blooded lust and the vein-bulging tell-tale signs of sin’s smothering aftermaths.

Film review: You Were Never Really Here – a corkscrew descent into the allure of violence

Fusing old school grit with contemporary cloth, You Were Never Really Here emerges from an acid trip to the cutting room as one of the most remarkable films of this generation.

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