indie albums
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, …
Album review: Windy & Carl – Allegiance and Conviction
DEARBORN, Michigan, isn’t necessarily a name that trips off the tongue when you think of musical powerhouses; but this little satellite city of Detroit is a quiet mecca for fans of the more blissed-out, ambient end of the post-rock spectrum. It’s where you can find Stormy Records, the secondhand collectors’ vinyl joint run by husband …
Album Review: Boyracer – On a Promise
It’s hard to keep a good genre down, to coin a phrase: and the once-maligned ‘tweepop’ – the bands that followed on in the wake of the NME’s C86 compilation of 60s’-informed, chiming guitarpop, for so long on the critical ropes, has come back fighting in recent years.Once barely worthy of a mention in the weekly British …
Album Review: Hinds – The Prettiest Curse
Hinds take us from bad times to great times with exhilarating new album The Prettiest Curse. The third album from the Madrid-based quartet (Carlotta Cosials, Ana Perrote, Ade Martin and Amber Grimbergen) couldn’t have come at a better time. As we tentatively take our baby steps into the “new normal”, Hinds are there to hold …
Album Review: Doomshakalaka – Doomshakalaka
Rafferty has constructed a collection of ten songs that work as both a great piece of work but also a piece of archive material as he looks back on his life in and around music starting with the album opener ‘One Last Saturday Night’ a song he originally wrote in 2011 about the feeling of …
EP: DITZ – 5 Song EP
Brighton post-punk / noise rock quintet DITZ have today (June 3rd) released their new EP, called, well, 5 Song EP. It’s out as a limited run of 500 on beautiful pink vinyl 12” via the ever brilliant Alcopop! Records label. Comprising of New track Role Model which has already been on the end of some …
Album Review: Katie Malco ‘Failures’
The debut album by UK based singer-songwriter Katie Malco. The much anticipated debut by Katie Malco, Failures, is released by 6131 records, and is both a personal soul-bearing record and an album about the power of connecting with relationships; marking this out as a record of this time and by this time. The ten song …
Album Review: Muzz – Muzz
The ‘supergroup’ moniker conjures a vast spectrum stretching from the cringey banality of 2010’s ‘McBusted’ revival, or the spectacular 60’s rock wet dream of ‘The Dirty Mac’. Contrary to the “pish” usually issued at the word, the debut album of Interpol’s Paul Banks alongside Bonny Light Horseman’s Josh Kaufman and The Walkmen’s Matt Barrick, shuns …