Anna von Hausswolff stepped away from her usual pipe organ to record this shimmering ballad that features in the film Sound Of Falling.

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Guè enjoys a cameo in the film La Grazia, about an elderly hip-hop-loving Italian president who presents the rapper with a knighthood.

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Courtney Barnett introduced herself, and her quirky individual sound, with the song Avant Gardener back in 2013.

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This was one of the standout songs on Bowie’s last-but-one studio album, The Next Day, released without fanfare in 2013 after a decade of retirement. (more…)

Annie Clark, aka St Vincent, teams up with Beck and musician friends to cover the INXS classic Never Tear Us Apart.

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Earth Disciples were a Jamaican vocal harmony group from the late 1970s led by Devon Beckford, aka ‘Ziggy Soul’.

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Massive Attack teamed up with Young Fathers for this creepy tune, with an even creepier video, from their Ritual Spirit EP.

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Last night I celebrated Samhain with an aptly Hallowe’en flavoured night of ghostly gothic dream-folk in a church, performed by Marissa Nadler. (more…)

I’ve always been a sucker for sad songs, and songs rarely sound sadder than The Way It Goes by bluegrass revivalist Gillian Welch.

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Topographies are a new band to me, though there’s a familiar undercurrent in the shimmering shoegaze sound of their dreamy darkwave.

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