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Thanks for sharing this music, it’s awesome, glad that I stumbled upon your blog! When did you discover them? They’re truly amazing.
Hey Andrew – thanks for stopping by and I hope you continue to enjoy it here. One of the best ways I discover music is sorting through amazon’s recommended albums feature and I have a feeling this came up when I was trying to find artists like Caribou as I had just discovered him back in 2015 I think – so I am relatively new. Didn’t even know they were British until I saw this haha! Any recommendations for me to take a look at?
Oh man, that’s a tough one, I don’t have any quite at the moment, but if I do, I’ll get back to you! Are you on FB at all? You should totally join our community of music lovers, sharers, and writers 🙂
Check us out: https://www.facebook.com/groups/musicmoguls/
Awesome, good to find likewise talents – I’ll take a look at the FB group – thanks for the heads up 😀
Most definitely! Hope to see you in it, would love to hear your opinions in our community 🙂