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It is hoped a multi-year study on a research farm near Masterton will give farmers a better understanding of the benefits and costs of shifting to a wool-less flock.

Reviews / / 07 · 05 · 2021 Bebe Rexha seems to be travelling in a thousand different directions at once. One of pop’s brightest and most startling talents, she’s able to move from a trash-aesthetic to high-glam in the same video, with her many creative incongruities building into a singular aesthetic. New album ‘Better Mistakes’ is her first in three years, a period that has seen the American star confirm her fluid sexuality, and her bipolar diagnosis. As a project, ‘Better Mistakes’ seems to be a determined attempt to exist beyond the barriers put in her way, a means of embra...

Reviews / / 06 · 05 · 2021 Squid aren’t an easy band to pin down. Live, they’re a mesh of arms and legs working in semi-unison – perhaps that’s where the sub-aqueous name comes from? – a group of musicians who yearn for spaces new, and ideas hitherto unexplored. On record, too, they’ve proved continually that resting on their laurels isn’t an option. Debut album ‘Bright Green Field’ encapsulates this, eschewing their prior works – that stellar EP, or 2020 singles ‘Sludge’ and ‘Broadcaster’ – in favour of wiping the slate clean, and sta...

Reviews / / 06 · 05 · 2021 For about three decades now, Glasgow’s own Teenage Fanclub have been a dependable force in the indie pop universe. Driven forwards by three incredible songwriters, the band seemed to weather everyone that was thrown at them – from the tornado that was Creation Records onwards into the 21st century. But change comes for us all, eventually. A shift in line up finds Teenage Fanclub embarking on subtle evolution on new album ‘Endless Arcade’, their first with Euros Childs as a full member. It’s the sound of a group locating a quiet s...

Features / / 04 · 05 · 2021 Gorillaz might well be indestructible. A titanic pop force, their ability to renew and regenerate has allowed them to outstrip their peers. The pandemic, though, is an entirely different challenge. - - - - - - It could have all been so different. When Gorillaz kicked off 2020 they wanted to embrace a new means of creating, a different method of collaboration. Song Machine moved the multi-media outfit away from the standard write an album, release an album, tour an album formula, allowing them to deconstruct different studio narratives...