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Best Of 2012 • Our Albums Of The Year #50–26
50: Mirel Wagner • Mirel Wagner A 2011 release in the rest of Europe, word of Mirel Wagner’s trance-like takes on sparser-than-sparse folk and blues spread gradually further afield through low-key...
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Best Of 2012 • Our Albums Of The Year #25–1
25: Anna von Hausswolff • Ceremony The stark cover of this brave second album from Gothenburg-born Anna von Hausswolff is a detail of the mighty church organ belonging to her home city’s enormous...
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Best Of 2012 • Our 40 Favourite Songs
Here, in alphabetical order, are the forty songs that were most essential to our 2012. If you missed the albums list, you can find it summarised and streaming here. Anaïs Mitchell, ‘Young Man In...
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Correatown interview • “I feel a bit like a pendulum some days”
Angela Correa is a name we first heard back in 2005 around the time of release of her third album, Correatown, a rootsy collection of heartbreak songs recorded mostly in a single take. Since then,...
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Viv Albertine interview • “I buried Viv from The Slits, I absolutely squashed...
Wears The Trousers has had the pleasure of interviewing Viv Albertine a couple of times over the past few years. The first time was shortly after she had made the decision to return to playing guitar...
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Carina Round interview • “I can get extremely maniacal when writing my own...
It may have taken her five years to release a new album but Carina Round has been far from idle. Collaborations (Puscifer, The Twilight Singers), side projects (Early Winters), several tours and a...
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Taken By Trees interview • “I’m not as afraid of settling down as I have been”
You never quite know what to expect with each new album from Victoria Bergsman’s Taken By Trees. While it’s fair to say that her first post-Concretes album, 2007′s Open Field, gave little indication...
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Cate Le Bon interview • “It’s an exciting time in Welsh music”
2012 was good to Welsh singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon. She started it with an extensive tour across the US and Europe with St. Vincent and the release of her long-awaited second album, CYRK (one of...
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Aimee Mann interview • “Trying to become more self-aware is sort of a duty...
Let’s just come right out and say it: Aimee Mann is our hero. It’s impossible to estimate just how many hours of our lives have been soundtracked by her nine solo releases – and, belatedly, her ‘Til...
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Martha Wainwright interview • “I don’t think I could have subjected myself to...
Returning to the UK off the back of a hugely successful tour in December, Martha Wainwright headlines the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow tonight as part of this year’s Celtic Connections festival (she...
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