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Picture Credit: Sisyphes   Sisyphes - Des stops et des détours Release Date: September 24, 2021 Length: 03:21 Genre: Indie Folk / Dream Pop Origin: Margate , England Geoffrey Papin  is a musician based in Kentish town Margate, also home to Broken Folk duo Lunatraktors . Papin , who used to create music with LaHoule , has recently formed his new solo band Sisyphes, and will very soon release an EP and an album. The single 'Des stops et des détours' is a beautiful composition of melancholy, desire, and hope. As the title tells us, it is about un unsteady but ongoing path defined by stops and detours - such as life is. A folky melody greets the listeners on top of a shoegaze-like Synthwave carpet. With his soothing vocals and the harmonic interaction of the instruments, Sisyphes creates a soundscape that resembles the first lights of dawn. It is a very comfortable and appeasing atmosphere that is spread here and which finds its climax in the colourful vocal bridge. Hence, ...

Picture Credit: Lunatraktors   Lunatraktors - Rigs of the Times Release Date: April 30, 2021 Length: 03:42 Genre: Broken Folk / Protest Folk Origin: Margate, England Clair Le Couteur  and Carli Jefferson  are the Lunatraktors. They were raised Essex, met in Prague, and moved to Kentish Margate. Since 2017, the duo has steadily released music located somewhere between the dynamics and harmonies of Folk, the darkness of Post Punk, the bright colours of queer cabaret, and a progressive Punk Rock attitude. They call their style Broken Folk, which to my ears is related to Protest Folk. Hence, I am somewhat reminded of some of my all-time favourite artists: Devon's Protest Folk / Punk band Crazy Arm , Fürth's Folk Noir bard Mäkkelä , and German street artists Milch & Blut. "Rigs of the Times" is the second ex ante single to the new album " The Missing Star " which will be out in June. The song is a sober status indicator of our contemporary times: BREXIT, COVI...