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Jennifer Lucy Allan picks out 10 of the best from another Rum year, from lucid bedroom pop made in 1980s Hungary, to wild new sounds out of Lancashire produced on self-built wooden instruments, via accordions, kanteles, lap steel guitars, modular synths and much much more
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Jennifer Lucy Allan picks out 10 of the best from another Rum year, from lucid bedroom pop made in 1980s Hungary, to wild new sounds out of Lancashire produced on self-built wooden instruments, via accordions, kanteles, lap steel guitars, modular synths and much much more
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Jennifer Lucy Allan picks out 10 of the best from another Rum year, from lucid bedroom pop made in 1980s Hungary, to wild new sounds out of Lancashire produced on self-built wooden instruments, via accordions, kanteles, lap steel guitars, modular synths and much much more