Indie
Track: Django Django release new track, The Ark
Following on from event single ‘Spirals’, which marked the return of the ever brilliant Django Django, the band are back with a new track ‘The Ark’, previously only available As a b-side on the vinyl version of the Spirals single. Glittering, cascading synths and sprawling electronics make up instrumental The Ark, with these acid sounding, …
TRACK: Camila Fuchs – ‘Come About’: spectral electronic pop out of Lisbon
CAMILA DE LABORDE, who hails from Mexico City, and Münchner Daniel Hermann-Collini have been recording together as Camila Fuchs since encountering each other in London back in 2012. The band released their debut album Singing From Fixed Rung, in 2016, which they followed by signing for ATP for 2018’s Heart Pressed Between Stones; now based in Lisbon, …
Track: Leyya – The Paper
Austrian indie pop duo Leyya are purveyors of the most delightful and whimsical tunes (see our review of single ‘Sauna’ a few years back). Their new single ‘The Paper’ is a bubbling, uplifting track with singer Sophie Lindinger’s floating, melancholic and enthralling vocals soaring elegantly and hypnotically over an acoustic ripple. It is extremely enchanting …
Track: Bitter Defeat – Long Lash
Bitter Defeat caught our eye earlier this year with the single ‘The Light That Shines‘ – I described it as an effervescent slice of classic New Zealand indie pop mixed with a Buzzcocks swagger and a rousing chorus. Their new single ‘Long Lash’ proves that this wasn’t an aberration. The story behind the lyrics is …
Track: The Besnard Lakes – Raindrops plus album news
The new single from Canadian band The Besnard Lakes is nothing short of magnificent. It has all the euphoria and pulse-racing joy you find in the works of bands like Sigur Ros, with Beach Boys/The Mamas and the Papas harmonies and a dream-like psychedelic shimmer reminiscent of The Verve or The Cocteau Twins. According to …
SEE: Kino Motel – ‘Waves’: first salvo from an intoxicating new duo
KINO MOTEL is the (currently) Melbourne-based uniting of kindred global and musical explorers Ed Fraser and Rosa Mercedes. They met in a Berlin commune, having both served time in critically acclaimed cult bands: he in the steely, dark grind of Heads; she with out-folker Josephine Foster. Once they’d met and pooled common purpose, they got the …
EP: New Ghost – Future Is Dead
Out now on Bandcamp via Shore Dive Records is the ‘Future Is Dead’ ep by Alternative Rock/Shoegaze/ DreamPop/ Post-Rock collective, New Ghost, who are based in Sheffield, England. The ep starts with the US Alternative Rock style track ‘Your Reds’, full of crunch and fuzz. Then, the vocals- a soulful female voice with a contemporary feel, …
Album Review: Lazy Legs – ‘Moth Mother’ (vinyl reissue)
OUT NOW on Tartarus Records is the album Moth Mother by shoegaze/slowcore band Lazy Legs, who are based in Portland, Oregon. Although first released last year, it’s just had a vinyl reissue, and is the bands second album, and the follow up to 2016’s Visiondeath. Moth Mother begins with a fiery buzz saw guitar which …
SEE: Louis Philippe & The Night Mail – ‘Fall In A Daydream’: él baroque-pop maître returns
ÉL RECORDS recording genius and in-house producer who seemed to find his way onto most of that label’s releases; football correspondent for the English game for France Football, these 21 years now; book award-winner, renaissance man and general all-round good egg, ’tis a shame that Louis Philippe, just as Louis Philippe, has been missing from …
ALBUM REVIEW: Magik Markers – ‘2020’: New England noiseniks’ filthy return
New England noiseniks’ full-length return after a six-year absence is filthy, trippy and even, at points, damn pretty. Righteous and cathartic, be glad they’re back