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Helen Bell – all the songs!

It's fair to say there is a not a single folk leaning bone in my abrasive music body, yet every time a Helen Bell track comes on I am absolutely GLUED to the speakers.

We love “Broken Town” but cannot list favs or recommended tracks as every single one is a pure sonic delight and an absolute master class in lyrical storytelling. Every track is a wonderful journey.

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Limnetic Villains – Replications

modern electro with strong 90s alt vibes, 80s synth flairs, a tinge industrial (mbm drum vibes), and that noughties indie edge of pop alt rock disco revival all today!

driving scoots like “Rise of the Idiots” dark and brooding synths of “Lost Chemicals” to station favourite “Shitty”

this album is absolutely packed with flavour 9.4/10 guaranteed to be something to like or love on here

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Circuit Static – Six

The 6th album in a Halloween series. You will get very competently arranged electro synthwave infectious head nodders like “Dark Alley”, with some light industrial flair and some epic haunting soundtrack tension as in “First to Fall” and “Night Stalker Returns”.

Dark enough if you want Halloween every day like we do this is a must have. Accessible enough for your neighbours?

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Mykie Frankenstein – Spiders in my Eyes! (Dec 2022)

100% organic farm to plate western goth.

This end-to-end enjoyable EP starts with a pleasantly brooding invite to join us down in the “Pumpkin Patch”.

“Diggin'” vibe is squarly 80s layered vox and talking goth guitar and I demand jack skellington should put on a belt buckle and join in on this love diddy.

“Three Pots of Coffee” an instrumental with a great wobble esque bass lines

“Promised Land” could have been straight out of Floodland and it scoots very nicely.

now I work outside a lot and well dig holes, so all week I been signing diggin holes until we're together again, but even more so, every time any detritus blows in my face I sing I GOT SPIDERS IN MY EYES for at least 20 minutes... “I've got spiders Crawling Out From Behind My Eyes” is addictive...send help?

This is an easy 9.1/10. We talk a lot about ear worms, now we can say EYE SPIDERS.

Even if you are totally wrong and don't think Halloween is every day you are still gonna 'dig' this EP.

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Romeo Rucha – Stay Calm (Jan 2023)

cerebral, irreverent, funky, and guaranteed to crack a few smiles

Imagine Autotune the News, Blue Man Group and Emergency Broadcast Network are fighting in a smallish box. Heaps of creative shifted, re-timed and glitched samples of spoken word and catchy underlying beats and sounds.

I don't want this played at my funeral because I won't hear it. Play it NOW!

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Shannon Curtis – Good to Me

This release is simultaneously beautiful, vulnerable and uplifting AND aggressive and empowering in the most cohesive way. Get lost in the sound between punchy and floaty. You will cry, yell, sing sometimes all at the same time. Fantastic story telling lyrics of substance and resonance.

Superior 80's synth vibes but with much more sonic depth and layers to enjoy with brilliant production and modern sound. Since there is no weak track there are many standouts, but “I Am” is an absolute ripper.

you go ahead and try to resist the urge to lace up your roller skates

12/10 infinite replay value

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Allflowers – More or Less Forever

Did you and/or ahem your parents grow up listening to siouxsie and curve and the cure, and lush, belly and echo and everything delightfully “alt” cause it sure sounds like Allflowers out of France did. In the best possible way. They present an outstanding individual and modern sound with unmistakable nods to alternative's past.

Praising a ballad is NOT something in my wheelhouse and yet they have one of those too in the form of the orchestral rock ballad “Zagreb Song”. AND, the next track “Somewhere Between the Lines” is another down tempo ish track with to this listeners' ear awesome cure esque guitar work I though OH NOES I LIKE NAY LOVE TWO BALLAD OR BALLAD ADJACENT TRACKS ON ONE ALBUM, what?!

Effortlessly floating between a touch of dreamy shoe gaziness or even melancholy to more driving progressive and moving alt rock underpinnings, all with perfectly complimenting vocals. 11/10 listen all the way through, no brainer for easy repeat play.

They are new to the fedi, go and give @allflowers@musician.social some love.

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