dream pop
Video: Underground Lovers – Feels Like Yesterday
The inimitable Underground Lovers have released an absolutely delightful video for the gorgeous track ‘Feels Like Yesterday’ opening their last album ‘A Left Turn’ (my joint favourite album of 2019). Made up of vignettes from various black and white movies (European in origin, I surmise) and edited by Cristina Álvarez López & Adrian Martin , …
Track: Cloud Tangle – Thinking of Myself
A languorous, charged and alluring dreamy fugue emanates from the new single by Brisbane’s Cloud Tangle in the delicious single ‘Thinking of Myself’. Cloud Tangle is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Amber Ramsay, who has been releasing music under Cloud Tangle since 2014. Of Cloud Tangle, Ramsay says: My goal with this project …
Track: Fragile Animals – Waiting
One of the best exponents of the new wave of Australian shoegaze/dream pop, Queensland’s Fragile Animals have followed up their much lauded EP ‘Only Shallow’ earlier this year with a blistering new single ‘Waiting’. Inserting a vibrant sheen of jangling guitars, discordance and harmonies, ‘Waiting’ is a gorgeous shimmering wall of sound, with its dream-like …
Track: Tan Cologne – Cave Vaults on the Moon in New Mexico
Probably influenced by a recent revisit to the world of TV series ‘Breaking Bad’, my image of New Mexico is a bright, cloudless, surreal landscape of magic, bleached bones and dust. Tan Cologne’s gorgeous new debut single ‘Cave Vaults on the Moon in New Mexico’ has somehow magically captures this vision in sound. Tan Cologne …
Track: Maff – Swamp
Chilean superstars of goth, Maff, are back at last with another fantastic single, ‘Swamp’. This follows on from the release of their EP ‘Melanina’ last year described by us as a sparkling, euphoric EP that has moments of pure beauty. And this euphoric beauty continues in ‘Swamp’: a scuzzy, sharp slice of pounding drums and …
Album Review: Underground Lovers – A Left Turn
The sheer brilliance of Melbourne’s Underground Lovers is only matched by the incomprehensible way they have remained under the global musical radar for so long in their career. Underground Lovers were pioneers of dream pop/shoegaze along with contemporaries My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive and Ride in the late eighties/early nineties, creating a magnificent body of work …
Track: Barrie – Drag, plus EP and tour news
Perfect purveyors of melancholy dream pop, Barrie, are back with a new single, ‘Drag’ off their soon to be released EP ‘Happy to be Here (Ext) – a delightful extension (as the name suggests) to their album ‘Happy to be Here’ reviewed by me in April. ‘Happy to be Here’ is pure unadulterated sparkling pop, and …
See: Bodywash Tease New Video Ahead of Debut Album
Montreal dream pop quintet Bodywash premiered the haunting video for their new single, ‘With Heat’, ahead of the release of their debut album ‘Comforter’ on August 30th via Luminelle Recordings. The fuzz guitar-dominated song apparently deals with the feeling of being unable to escape something toxic. You can check it out here. No details of …
Track: Night Flowers – Fortune Teller, plus album news
Last year’s single ‘Cruel Wind’ from London quartet Night Flowers was for me one of the singles of the year in a very competitive field. This year, Night Flowers have released another perfect dream pop delight in the form of ‘Fortune Teller’, title track from their much anticipated album due out on 25 October through …
Track: Underground Lovers – Seven Day Weekend, plus Album and Tour News
Melbourne’s legendary Underground Lovers have released a new single, ‘Seven Day Weekend’ as well as announcing the release of their tenth album ‘A Left Turn’ on 11 October 2019 along with a tour of Australia. I’m unashamedly a massive fan of this criminally underrated band and it feels like Christmas. ‘Seven Day Weekend’ is a …