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A free app that plays live radio streams? Whatever, they’ve probably only got a bunch of university and bedroom-based stations that no one’s ever heard of, or would want to hear of. Hang on, Radioplay is backed by the BBC, Absolute and Global, plus a whole host of independents you’re actually aware of? Oh. Fair enough.

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Shatoetry

Shatoetry
Some people's voices are so magnificent that they could read out twenty-seven varieties of pierogi from a Polish milk bar menu, in Polish, and it'd sound amazing. Having a voice like William Shatner's basically means you have a golden larynx, and unsurprisingly he's followed the lead of Brian Blessed and Matt Berry in turning his distinctive delivery into a money-spinning app. With Shatoetry, the Star Trek star invites you to compose poetic verse using samples of him saying a selection of words. While it can be a bit fiddly to begin with, and could do with a larger range, the fact is that even making him just repeat the word 'fear' again and again proves oddly satisfying...
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EP Address: Datassette, Sudan Archives, Mighty Lord Deathman and more…

We look back at some of the best EPs released over the summer, including debuts by Sudan Archives and Mighty Lord Deathman…

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