indie albums
EP: Starflyer 59 – Miami
Out now is new EP ‘Miami’ by Californian indie band Starflyer 59, on Velvet Blue Music. Starflyer 59 have released a multitude of albums, singles and EPs over the last quarter of a century and this is a nice addition to their expansive discography.The title track, ‘Miami’ is an acoustic-driven slice of psychedelic indie, complete …
Album Review: LYR- Call in the Crash Team
The debut album by LYR is an eclectic and ambitious new project, derived from a trio of producer Patrick Pearson, musician Richard Walters and poet Simon Armitage. Besides a slew of solo records and writing for the likes of Gabrielle Aplin and Alison Moyet, Walters previously worked with Simon Armitage on his solo track Redwoods; …
Album Review: Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
The solo artist, boygenius, and Better Oblivion Community Center member’s second album delivers modern perceptions on mental health and weighty musings on relationships, while displaying the effects and symptoms of relationships rather than simply being love songs, across a lurid but vivid instrumental canvas. The opener’s warped, sparse and eerie vocals resonate like an onomatopoeic …
EP: Got.Knees – A Century of Middle Class Love
Sitting somewhere between ambient and alt-rock, Got.Knees – all we know about him/her is that its a solo project from the UK – has released a new EP, A Century Of Middle Class Love. Talking of the release, Got.Knees says its ‘Inspired by the events that precipitated the outbreak of war in 1914, A Century …
Album Review: Gum Country – ‘Somewhere’
The debut album from the duo of Courtney Gavin (The Courtneys) and multi-instrumentalist Connor Mayer, is released via Bandcamp on June 19th. The album is a buzz of fuzz, feedback ricocheting off of walls and eardrums a plenty, Garvin’s open-tuned guitar has a warmness reminiscent of The Breeders and Mayer’s accompaniment is the perfect compliment …
ALBUM REVIEW: Jetstream Pony – ‘Jetstream Pony’
FOR those who study the form, Sussex/Surrey four-piece Jetstream Pony are serious indie thoroughbreds. Four singles under their belts (should that be their harness?) the band’s self-titled debut LP is out now on limited-press coloured vinyl LP, CD and download. A quick earful and you get punky guitars with bittersweet female melodies, ripe to hook …
Album Review – Jehnny Beth – To Love Is To Live
Former Savages member Jehnny Beth is set to release her debut album To ‘Love Is To Live’ 12th June via Caroline International. This is no Savages though, this is all Beth. Her album and her music. A mash up of classical, Jazz, industrial, post punk and spoken word that span the world of sex, violence, …
EP: Sunspire – Euphoria
Out now on Crafting Room Recordings is the ‘Euphoria’ ep by Jack Jazrawy-Brown aka Shoegaze/DreamPop artist, Sunspire. This release is available as a digital download or a limited edition cassette from Bandcamp. On the ep, Sunspire creates swirling, ambient guitar soundscapes.The tunes are mesmeric, drawing the listener into a chilled-out dream world. The guitars are luscious …
Album review: The Wolfhounds – Electric Music
A FEW days ago, I wrote in a review that you can’t keep a good genre down; necessarily, it follows that you can’t keep a great band down. And a great illustration of this would be East London’s The Wolfhounds, back with us once more and poised to release their third long-player since reforming, and …
Album Review: Modern Nature – Annual
JACK COOPER has had a mercurial musical decade. Cast your mind back ten years and you’d have found him in that harbour of all things leftfield, FatCat, plying his trade in garage-motorik band Mazes. A tour with indiepoppers Veronica Falls led to a brace of albums filled with sunshiney, Californian country psych as Ultimate Painting, …