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When former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher died in 2013 there was an outpouring of vitriol and delight on social media here, some from people who probably hadn't lived in Britain when she was in charge.
Maybe never even lived there, but Maggie was the familiar lightning rod for hatred....

There's a lot of it about, as the music hall comedians used to say.
However we're talking about ambient, slightlydelic soundscapes and the practitioners need to identify their point of difference.
Wellington's Europe in Flames do it through samples and subtle disruptions on Source: Transcender Nova, The Lightbox (Pale Morning/digital outlets)...

Tyler Perry (as he was born) seems to have arrived out of nowhere, and suddenly, with this enormously impressive debut album.
But of course there's a backstory in which he could have gone undiscovered, but for fortune.
From New England, he dropped out of the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston (too much the stoner ......

A few years ago Elsewhere stumbled on a power-pop single by this now LA-based guy who was then billed as Young Guv (he's Ben Cook, originally from Toronto) and was living in Brooklyn at the time.
That song Couldn't Leave U If I ...
Source: Guv: Warmer Than Gold (digital outlets)...