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Album Review: Lou Doillon – Places

French singer-songwriter Lou Doillon is the daughter of British singer Jane Birkin, having won the genetic lottery (that jaw line…wow), it seems Doillon has now decided to turn her hand to music. Already a model for the likes of Givenchy and GAP – and an accomplished actress – let’s …

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Album Review: MS MR – Secondhand Rapture

In a stand-out lyric on MS MR’s debut album, Secondhand Rapture, the seemingly ‘sweet’ persona of vocalist Lizzy Plapinger – and her colour-changing hair – take a flip to reveal a more frustrated side: “I still think of you and all the shit you put me though,” she …

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Video: Betty Who – ‘You’re In Love’

It’s so refreshing to listen to a love song that’s just genuinely happy. Living in times when dark pop rules, and everything seems at least tinted with melancholia, Betty Who crashes onto the scene with massive sing-a-long choruses that defy the moody and pining. Having raved about the Sydney songstress here …

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Introducing: Daithí

The sounds of Galway production whiz Daithí aren’t exactly what his SoundCloud profile picture might let on. Perhaps it’s just me who was misled by his highlighted, side-swept hair and violin prop, assuming the accompanying music to be fiddle-heavy and introspective. Alas, how wrong I was. Blissfully joyful synth textures …

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Introducing: DIANA

In desperate need of an uplift this afternoon, DIANA‘s much-anticipated debut album has come as a breath of fresh air. Don’t let the name (or the picture) fool you; this Toronto outfit is actually a four piece, not one of whom is called Diana. Blowing us away with their …

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News: HAIM announce European summer dates

LA sister trio HAIM have been making massive waves in the industry this year, winning BBC’s Sound of 2013 and appearing on just about everyone’s ‘ones to watch’ list. It therefore comes as no surprise that all their European headline dates – listed below – are now sold out. However, …

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Video Premiere: Freddie Dickson – ‘Shut Us Down’

The enigmatic Freddie Dickson‘s takeover of the blogosphere continues unabated, and we here at PlanetNotion are glad to contribute to it. Today, we bring you the premiere of Dickson’s debut video: a wonderfully re-constituted compilation of old family footage soundtracking the young Londoner’s sultry, moody ‘Shut Us Down’. It’s …

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Introducing: Betty Who

Australia has been unrelenting with its musical exports in the last 18 months or so, take Flume, Tame Impala and San Cisco for instance, who’ve all provided us with startling, relevant and at times avant-garde approaches to their chosen genres.

Betty Who, born and raised in Sydney, is …

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Notion 063 Feature: Lucy Rose

Back in March our online editor Seb Law toodled off to Texas to the musical extravaganza that is South by Southwest and while he was there he met up with folk-pop musician Lucy Rose to chat about everything from the experience performing at one of the biggest music festivals around

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Album Review: No Joy – Wait to Pleasure

No Joy, aka Canadian shoegazing girls Jasmine White-Gluz and Laura Lloyd, are here to greet you with a fully-furnished, studio-stamped album. Taking their sun-drenched, noise pop sound to a whole new level, these girls have dusted themselves down, scrubbed their sandals and are ready for business.

The record begins …

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