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Latest releases from H.C. McEntire, The Flaming Lips and David Ian Roberts

H.C. McEntire
Eno Axis
(Merge)
★★★

HAVING announced her arrival as a solo artist with her superb 2018 debut album Lionheart, singer-songwriter HC McEntirereturns with her second record.

Emerging out of some downtime at a 100-year old farmhouse in the woods near Durham, North Carolina, Eno Axis has a pleasing old time, if not timeless, feel to it.


The Flaming Lips
American Head
(Bella Union)
★★★★


David Ian Roberts
From The Harbour
(Cambrian Records)
★★★★

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