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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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Kidnappings and political trappings: Rediscovering Gregory Mcdonald’s Snatch via Hard Case Crime

Wonderfully adept at weaving in new characters, Mcdonald takes a simple melody and orchestrates it into a cacophony of noise. It demands your attention.

Requiem for the Detective Novel: The case for Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s 1958 masterpiece The Pledge

What really happens to a policeman who can’t solve his most important case? What becomes of a pillar of society whose foundations are crumbling?

Your ticket to an unforgiving Australian outback: The Dry by Jane Harper

Kiewarra hasn’t seen a cloud for two years but it’s been drowning in sin for generations.

Summer Before The Dark: Writing, alcohol and exile with literature’s émigrés in 1930s Belgium

They read, they write, they drink, they have affairs, they probe, they hide, they hurtle towards their own oblivion, their lives “lived out, in order to be described”.

The mystery of the missing crime novel: Sinner Man by Lawrence Block

Half a century in the making, Sinner Man is one of crime fiction’s most exhilarating rediscoveries.

Album review: The Rolling Stones – Blue & Lonesome

The Stones aren’t just covering these songs; they’re reliving them, getting fuelled by them and translating them into their language.

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