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by Sean Adams
Ah, so February, you are such a short month, but what you lack in length, you've more than made up for with girth. This month has been bulging with brilliant new records, and tantalising tidbits of details about yet more goodies to come later in the year. Just imagine how hard it's going to be to pick an album of the year, but don't go wishing the year away quite so quickly, especially as this quick glimpse back at what has 'dropped' over the past four weeks will hopefully remind you that there is a lot to love and spend some time listening to before you zoom onto the next best thing... »
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by Sean Adams
February may be the shortest month of the year but what it lacked in days, it made up for in releases. Here's our editors picks of the month in a (hopefully) digestible format including our albums of the month and a Spotify playlist, as well as the most read pages of February's 2,677,492 pageviews.»
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by Sean Adams
As you may have noticed over the past few weeks, we've scrapped our weekly Spotifriday playlist in favour of a monthly playlist. Instead we're now doing this digestible weekly post of five things we think you coulda/shoulda heard this week but if you didn't, here they are, in one place with play buttons and everything... »
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by Sean Adams
If you don't know by now (this number one hundred and twelve, where you been?), Spotifriday is basically a weekly playlist of the best bits of our past seven days. Think of it like one of them cover mount cassettes you used to get with Melody Maker but without all that strange rubbery glue with torn bits of paper that you'd find weeks later attached to your favourite hoodie.
Anyway, fire up the playlist by bashing your mouse here and listen whilst perusing the following links.»
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by Rob Webb
Whether you agreed with the decision to award Elbow the 'Prize or not, one thing is clear: Mercury nominations = more moolah.»
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by Luke Slater
Formerly enigmatic dubstep producer Burial is now clear favourite to scoop the Mercury Music Prize, decided tomorrow at London's Grosvenor House.»
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by Ashraf Dumile
After The Sun launched some crass “unmask Burial campaign” last week, the Hyperdub beatnik has decided to get rid of all the mystique surrounding him by revealing his identity, posting a blog and an image of himself»
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by Mike Diver
After a week of betting, bookmakers William Hill have revealed that their favourite to take this year's Nationwide Mercury Prize is Burial's second album, Untrue (pictured)»
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by Ashraf Dumile
The nominees for the Mercury Prize 2008 have been announced with Radiohead, British Sea Power and Burial all in contention for the annual music award»
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by Alex Denney
Dubstep maestro and DiS ‘fave’ Burial is set to release a compilation CD of his favourite songs»
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by Kev Kharas
The ten finalists for this year’s Shortlist Music Prize have been announced.»