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The Moonlandingz: Lunar Tunes

Pterodactyls in the garden, an obsession with gabba videos and a catastrophic bike accident. Adrian Flanagan, Dean Honer and Lias Saoudi explain their long-awaited second album as The Moonlandingz
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Gary Daly

It’s 45 years since Scouse schoolmates Gary Daly and Eddie Lundon formed China Crisis, and a new album collects their earliest BBC radio recordings. The road to chart success, reveals Gary, was littered with notepads and Uni-ball pens
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Benefits: Friends With Benefits

Kingsley Hall and Robbie Major are north-east duo Benefits. Combining poetic spoken word with slick retro beats, their second album seeks out beauty amid the “incessant barking” of the modern media landscape
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Wavemaker

Having left the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1973, Brian Hodgson formed the prog-tinged synth duo Wavemaker with Canadian composer John Lewis. Their two albums are underappreciated 1970s gems
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Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom: Up Spruced

Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips have brought us the gifts of Galaxie 500, Luna and Dean & Britta. Pete Kember, aka Sonic Boom, has meanwhile been the proud bearer of Spacemen 3 and Spectrum. This festive period, they have clubbed together for a joint present – an enchanting collection of Christmas covers
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Field Music: Cafe Society

The new Field Music offering, ‘Limits Of Language’, finds brothers Peter and David Brewis in a nostalgic mood. Overdosing on Marmite in their favourite Wearside cafe, they look back on the vanished eateries and melancholy early Septembers of their youth