Bas Jan: Swamp Things

byBob Fischer
January 18, 2024

The new album by London synthpop quartet Bas Jan deftly combines the everyday and the esoteric. Examples? Fonts on British road signs and the tragic history of Irish witchcraft...

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Bob Fischer

Richard H Kirk: Drop The H-Bomb

Death and Vanilla: A Flicker Of Hope

Dan Tombs: Vision On

Ultramarine : From Mundane To Magical

Stephen Mallinder: Mal Content

OMD: Electric Blue

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Man Parrish ‘Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don’t Stop)’

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Bas Jan: Swamp Things

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