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Ask anyone who has ever had to carry a butcher’s bag of random meats home on a night bus: the tombola can be a cruel mistress. Declaring Yard Act’s intention to rediscover the spontaneity lost since “things changed” to the tune of 5,000 tickets a night, the singer James Smith hands a tray of numbered ping-pong balls into the crowd to select the night’s first three songs from a prize board of 20.
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This album of "emotional computer music" by XAM Duo, aka Matthew Benn and Christopher Duffin, is a very soothing listen
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On Virginia Wing's fourth full-length, the album's themes of isolation, dealing with trauma, and mental wellbeing reflect a collective despair that we are all feeling after a year without spontaneous human interactions. Right now, it feels like all our lives are private â the self that we show to others being just a preselected snapshot mediated through feeds and computer screens.  Having made Ecstatic Arrow in alpine Switzerland's picturesque setting in 2018, the Manchester trio had to settle on working from home like the rest of us did in 2020. Despite this, 'Private Lif...