Album Review

The Magnetic Fields have returned to their hometown; but older, blunter and with a more acerbic tongue in their cheek.

EP1 is a promising opening account and a rather lovely one at that.

The Clearing is a woody, creaky, but ultimately gorgeous folk record; one that has undoubtedly sprung out of the same coppice from which once grew...

Whilst the writing is excellent, the incessant Eighties referencing can tire at points.

Julia Holter has produced a very fine, fiercely imaginative record in Ekstasis, rife with sonic experimentation and not lacking in heart.

The compilation serves as a pretty neat assessment of its own particular ilk of underground music.