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Troika #54: Best of 2024
The cover of Hayden Pedigo's album 'Letting Go'. The album artwork shows a painting of a man with long black hair, in death metal face paint and white shirt and jeans. He is forlornly standing in front of a red American truck.

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Lanterns on the Lake at the Minack

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Ministry of Transport Signage

Apple Music 100 Best Albums
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Troika 48: Ambient Americana
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Share Openly
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Mini Clubman
The cover for the Loki Season 2 soundtrack, featuring Tom Hiddleston sucking his cheeks in.

Weeknotes 25.04.24
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The Oberland and its Glaciers
The band sitting down in chairs at the bay window of the record shop. Steve the bass player is wearing a bolack t-short that says the phrase 'unlistenable'. It is night outside the shop, and the audience are very close

RIDE at Truck Oxford
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The Mortimiser
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Analog Scrobbling
The exterior of the Hammersmith Apollo in London, a white art deco building with multicoloured lights projected onto it. The large billboard reads Slowdive Doors 7pm.

An Unexpected Slowdive

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Witney Ambient Night

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Troika #46, best of 2023. Featuring the covers of Versions of Us by Lanterns on the Lake, Albion by Harp and Everything is Alive by Slowdive.

Troika #46: Best of 2023

Festive Sandwich Reviews 2023

For the love of Bandcamp

Troika #45 - Brian McBride

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