indie rock
Reissue: Semisonic – Feeling Strangely Fine
Whatever happened to Semisonic? One minute some were considering them to be the next big thing in American rock music, and the next, well they just disappeared. So what happened? In the mid 90s, when there was a surplus of post-grunge cash sloshing around record companies, Minneapolis power pop act Semisonic somehow found themselves signed …
Track: Celestial North – The Land, The Sea, The Human Race
The Land, The Sea, The Human Race is the latest addition to Celestial North’s clutch of tunes. Adding a bit of brooding oomph to its predecessors’ more delicate charms, it’s a nifty bit of pastoral goth. Something get those of us who properly remember the 80s digging out a paisley shirt and indulging in a …
Not Forgotten: Mansun – Six
Twenty years later and the shock of hearing Six for the first time still stays with me. I’d already heard the single “Legacy”, which was one of the best things I’d heard in years, and I’d also stumbled across “Television” on a front-of-music-magazine CD and that was a bit weird. Regardless of this, and as …
See: Desert Mountain Tribe announce new album, release video for ‘Wide Eyes’
The London based alternative/indie rock trio Desert Mountain Tribe will release their second album on 1st June. ‘Om Parvat Mystery’ is co-produced by the band with James Aparicio and was recorded in London and the Faroe Islands. Najma Akhtar, the well known British singer of Indian ancestry who has previously collaborated with the likes of …
See: Arctic Monkeys reveal new video for Four Out of Five
The Arctic Monkeys newly released single, ‘Four Out of Five,’ is as startling and captivating a listen as their sixth album – ‘Tranquillity Base Hotel and Casino’ – from which it is taken. Alex Turner croons the opening lines like ‘Young Americans’ era Bowie covering ‘Happiness is a Warm Gun’ over a sinewy, claustrophobic rhythm …
Live Review: Hush / The Kaleidoscopes, Record Junkee, Sheffield, 05/05/18
It’s always a pleasure when a live band are as good as their recordings and with Hush, the latest pop rock offering from Sheffield, the band are not only as polished and professional, but also as raucous and fun and insanely catchy as their music suggests. Off the back of their latest single “King and …
See: LUCAS reveal new video for Anne Marie
Manchester three piece Lucas have released a new video for their single ‘Anne Marie’, taken from their upcoming EP, High Wire. Produced and co-written by Cage the Elephant’s Lincoln Parish, its a heady mix of Brit-Pop, a sort of shoegaze psychedelia, and a little dash of Marc Bolan. “Anne Marie was a turning point for …
Track: The Rare Occasions – Physics, plus US tour dates
Los Angeles four piece The Rare Occasions are preparing for the release of their new album ‘Into the Shallows’ which drops on May 25th. Ahead of it, they’ve released a new track from the album ‘Physics’ and announced a string of US tour dates. Physics is this twisting Arctic Monkey-ish indie rock affair, spewing out …
Track: Celestial North – Illuminate Yourself
One song at a time, Celestial North is slowly quietly building a lovely collection of heart-liftingly elegiac and pastoral indie-rock tunes. Illuminate Yourself is the third of them and well worth a listen. Find it and its equally ace predecessors (Winter Circle and Hey Völva) at Bandcamp
Track: HOO HAs – Rantra
The HOO HAs‘s new single, ‘Rantra’, is an angry, loud, swaggering beast with a sneer and a studied pose. It’s a brilliant. Think of the shouty side of The Fall mixed with the bluster of Blur and a whole swag bag of attitude mixed with a pint or three of lager and stomping Dr Martens …