Tag: Melodic Records

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Time to hail Nightbus

Photo credit: Gina Darwin

Manchester! You’ve given this yank so much music to believe in. Now, here come Nightbus looming into view.  From the cold, stark, stabs of Joy Division to the loud, swaggery sneer of Oasis. From the sensitive lad yelpings of Puressence to the moody night shiftiness of The Rain Band (a.k.a. Our Final Invention).  There is […]

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Folk New release

Shirley Hurt: the debut album

Shirley Hurt photographed on a city rooftop balancing a piece of fruit on her head
Photo credit: Ariel Bader Shamai

David Arscott kindly took the time to review the eponymous debut LP from idiosyncratic Canadian artiste Shirley Hurt (the non de plume of Toronto-based Sophia Ruby Katz).