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Rawkous alternative math energy from Up North. Signed to Roadrunner Records. Our new single 'Captivate You' is OUT NOW! http://smarturl.it/CaptivateYou

Blancmange started life early in 1979 as the culmination of various musical liaisons between Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe.

Musician. Soho Radio presenter. 

FILTHY UNDERNEATH - NEW ALBUM OUT NOW!

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Nadine Shah’s fifth album Filthy Underneath is out now as the inaugural release on EMI North. The follow up to 2020's critically acclaimed Kitchen Sink and 2017's Mercury Prize nominated Holiday Destination. 

Three years might seem like a prolonged absence to some people, but it’s also a period of time in which the apparatus that holds your world in place can be dismantled and reassembled so that you can keep living, keep creating. Filthy Underneath chronicles a period of unprecedented turbulence in Nadine Shah’s life. And yet, the experience of listening to it is oddly life-affirming – a parade of ghosts spanning the entirety of Nadine’s thirty-seven years, moving with balletic beauty to the music that Nadine and long-time co-writer and producer Ben Hillier have created around them.  

On the lead single 'Topless Mother', her double-tracked harmonies converge with a physically irresistible groove. Inspired by a series of comically tense exchanges with a counsellor, the song alights on that counsellor’s unorthodox tendency to burst into tears if she felt she wasn’t getting anywhere with her patient.  

Speaking of the track Shah says: "It’s a song about a counsellor I worked with that I couldn’t get along with. I’m pretty certain the feeling was mutual. And I’m also pretty certain she’d find this funny. Some people just don’t click and some arseholes like me write songs about it."

call of the void | OUT NOW: http://hyperurl.co/Lusts-CalloftheVoid

A Dream Outside - 2015 
Where Wildness Grows - 2018

Hi-Phi Music  - Beautiful Audio

The notion that the human brain is programmed to be stimulated by beauty is an interesting one. Isn’t beauty subjective and in the eye of the beholder?  Then, why is it in art that some things just work?  They are universally applauded and cherished for their beauty.

Creative people have understood this for centuries and have drawn their inspiration from the beauty in nature where perfection means survival.  Think of butterfly’s wings, the leaves on a tree or the spirals on a shell, these things have evolved throughout time to be perfect for their required purpose and the laws of Phi, the natural ratio of beauty, govern them all.  The golden ratio or 1:1.618 used by architects, artists and musicians to create work which is not only pleasing to the senses but also entirely functional for it’s purpose.  Hi-Phi Music is an outlet for music, which achieves exactly that.  Not constricted by genre or style, technology or fashion Hi-Phi will consistently deliver releases, which are not only beautiful but will also fit in perfectly where played, be it home or office, club or bar.

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