The stories behind the music.
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After an autoimmune disease left them unable to sing, Bridie Monds-Watson had to rethink their relationship with music. On decembers, SOAK explores what happens when the future you imagined disappears, and you have to find another way forward.
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The New York trio have spent eight years making music on their own terms. As they prepare to release their fourth album, ‘3’, drummer Peter Yanowitz reflects on creative freedom, unexpected discoveries in the studio and a band none of them anticipated building.
The Glasgow five-piece discuss the influences behind their debut EP, the recording decisions that changed some of its tracks, and taking their music beyond their home city.
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There is a point in a band’s career when ambition stops being something talked about in interviews and becomes something you can actually hear. For cleopatrick, that point appears to be now.
For Black Doldrums, the connections between their records aren't always something they set out to create. Sometimes they appear during the process, and sometimes they are hidden in the songs until someone notices them.
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For Von Dodds, Trypophilia marks the beginning of something new, but the story behind it reaches much further back.
For Alien Chicks, not fitting neatly into a genre has gone from something they simply couldn't avoid to something they actively embrace.
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Cam Cole has never needed much equipment to make a lot of noise.