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Poppy & The Jezebels

Poppy & The Jezebels are an indie-pop band from Birmingham, UK formed in 2005 by 14 year old school-girls, Mollie Kingsley (vocals & percussion), Amber Bradbury (guitar & vocals), Poppy Twist (drums & vocals) and Dom Vine (keyboards, bass & vocals). Still at school and inbetween studying for their GCSE's they started to record debut material in 2006/07. Following the release of their mini-length LP in Autumn 2007 entitled "Follow Me Down" on Derby indie, Reveal Records, they signed to EMI imprint, Mute.

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Matthew Shaw

“Matthew is one of the most fascinating figures on the UK drone underground, collaborating with thinkers like Brian Lavelle (as Fougou) and Andrew Paine (as The Blue Tree) while releasing music under his own name and the Tex La Homa pseudonym via a host of labels, including his own Apollolaan Recordings. His music delves deep in Hidden Reverse traditions, incorporating specific environmental soundings of occult landscapes into beautiful drone works that advance the oracular/hallucinogenic English underground tradition of Coil, Richard Youngs, Andrew Chalk et al.”

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Emperor X

Emperor X is a pop/noise/folk music project headed by American musician C. R. Matheny. The project often performs and records with little more than Matheny on an acoustic guitar and a dynamic microphone, but sometimes also employs large groups of musicians on percussion instruments, various electronic noisemakers, brass/woodwind/string ensembles, and traditional rock instruments. The lyrics of Emperor X songs have been described as simultaneously "hallucinatory" and "precise," and discuss subjects ranging from plate tectonics ("A Violent Translation of the Concordia Headscarp")...

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