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Track: Soft Science release the brilliant new single True, along with accompanying video – watch here

Northern California dreampop/ shoegaze outfit Soft Science have returned with a new single and accompanying video ‘True’. It’s taken from their recent album ‘Lines’ which dropped earlier in the month…

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PREMIERE: Things heat up for Vancouver’s Bridal Party as they return with ‘Cool Down’

It’s been entirely too long since we’ve heard from Vancouver’s Bridal Party – they’ve been quiet, keeping their heads down and working on the follow-up to Too Much, their 2019…

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Album Review : Elaine Howley – The Distance Between Heart And Mouth : experimental, electronic dream pop that twists deeper.

Conceived before, within and beyond pandemic times, Cork based musician and underground shaper Elaine Howley has emerged with a bold personal record ‘The Distance Between Heart And Mouth’ on Belfast’s…

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PREMIERE: Karaboudjan previews new EP with the expansive ‘Scatter’

The Southern California-based Billy Kim impressed us when he released his debut EP as Karaboudjan last year, with IMAGO putting him on the map as a solo artist. Kim is…

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See: Raveloe finds escape in the fine, rolling folk-rock of ‘Catkins’ – she’s so one to watch in ’22

IT’S THAT time of year when those of us who spill ink about music begin to look forward; the old year nearly done and captured and bottled barring end-of-year lists…

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EP: Pam Risourié – So Be It Eternity

Out on Indie label Shore Dive Records (based in Brighton, England), is the second EP by the Paris based Dreampop/Blackgaze band, Pam Risourié. The EP is called ‘So Be It…

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See: ginla bring the reflective dreampop of ‘Bloodstream’ to warm your autumn

GINLA, the creative space in which Adrianne Lenker’s super-creative musicians Joe Nellen and Joe Manzoli – sidemen? Do me a favour, these two are so much more than that –…

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Premiere: Brisbane’s Terra Pines unleash the brute force of ‘Downbeat’: a thunderous musical assault leavened by the sweetest of melodies.

Brisbane’s Terra Pines take no prisoners in their brutal aural assault of a track, ‘Downbeat’. This is a thunderous insistent fuzzy rumble that rolls forward with intensity and purpose. And…

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Album review: Afternoon Bike Ride – ‘Afternoon Bike Ride’: a magical future pop journey to soothe and seduce a frazzled mind

A MEETING of delicate pop like minds: musician-producers David Tanton (aka Rhoda/Tender Spring), Éloi Le Blanc-Ringuette (aka Thomas White), and Lia Kurihara (aka LIA) met on the fertile Montréalais music…

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News: Indie legend Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean and Britta) announces solo album and unveils a scintillating and evocative video for opening track ‘The Past Is Our Plaything’.

There is no doubting the legendary status of Dean Wareham, whose band Galaxie 500 in the late eighties defined a gentle low-fi poetic brilliance and melodic genius that influenced and…

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