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Ultimately, Lum and Bee are all about creating a mood with their music, a relaxed and blissed-out vibe.

This otherwise light and fluffy music contains a surprisingly engaging amount of emotional heft.

A madcap pastiche that’s everything you’ve come to expect from The Kleptones.

Plumerai are clearly heading in the right direction with their sound.

At its best, Japancake’s take on the shoegaze classic offers some new insights into Kevin Shield’s masterpiece.

The sound of a band completely comfortable inside its own skin and supremely confident in their skills.

Weigl and Hoffman combine orchestral sounds, sparse piano lines, Spanish guitar, and skittering, echoey beats.

When Lycia hits their stride, all of the pretense and bombast works entirely in their favor, and the music feels more comprehensive and accomplished than portentous.

Replete with Christian imagery as far removed from traditional praise and worship music as can be.

Music that, despite its sometimes painful awkwardness and delicacy, is capable of reminding us of something we’ve long forgotten.

Hopefully, this collection of odds and sods from Manual’s archives presages a sea change in Jonas Munk’s career.

The album’s mix of musical traditions from around the world is both improvisational and intimate.

The disc has a highly improvised feel to it, based entirely around the live electronic manipulation of Helvacıoğlu’s acoustic guitar.

There’s a sense of purity and simplicity, and of solid craftsmanship throughout the album.

A batch of homespun, country-inflected ballads that straddle the line between folk and rock musically.

Cam Butler’s self-titled EP shows that folks from “down under” certainly know their way around western film music.

These four songs are inspired by the paintings of Claude Monet, J. M. W. Turner, Ken Bushe, and Mark Rothko.

The EP’s four songs were created by improvising guitar lines through various effects boxes.

Drone Dimension was well on their way to becoming a shining light in the “nu-gaze” movement.

The album is dedicated to both of Karen’s parents, and that sense of loss and mourning permeates the album.