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Luby Sparks’ “Somewhere” with Robin Guthrie

Luby Sparks. (Photo sourced from artist's Bandcamp.
After a brief few days away, I figured a little dreamy dream-pop is a great way to start the week back up. It's always easy on the ears, feels a touch nostalgic and intangibly familiar, it's full of layers of textures of layers of spangled, glittery haze and melody, and it just reminds me of …

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You’ll Never Get to Heaven’s “Caught in Time, So Far Away”

You'll Never Get to Heaven's Alice Hansen & Chuck Blazevic. Photo by Megan Campbell; sourced from artist's Facebook.
I just love the band name You'll Never Get to Heaven, especially when they possess a sound as captivating as this Canadian duo.  Alice Hansen and Chuck Blazevic have been collaborating as You'll Never Get to Heaven since 2012, exploring and experimenting with hazy dream-pop ambience and lush lo-fi atmospherics.  I remember hearing about these …

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Massive Attack’s “Teardrop”

Massive Attack's poster for the 21st anniversary of their seminal 1998 album "Mezzanine," announced on their Facebook.
Having posted about the Cocteau Twins yesterday, I couldn't not post Massive Attack's "Teardrop," which was the inspiration for that previous post.  Why?  Because the seminal trip-hop band is touring the groundbreaking "Mezzanine" album in its entirety .. and they're bringing Cocteau vocalist Elizabeth Fraser with them to perform "Teardrop," as well as a few …

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Cocteau Twins’ “Heaven or Las Vegas”

An old 4AD Records press photo of the Cocteau Twins. Photo by Paul Cox.
Lately, I've been listening to a lot of Cocteau Twins.  It's because Massive Attack is touring "Mezzanine," and they're bringing Cocteau vocalist Elizabeth Fraser to sing "Teardrop," and a few others she wrote with them.  That's super exciting!  As a sidenote, Liz and Massive Attack are going to be at the Hollywood Palladium at the …

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