Sonic Cathedral
SEE: Andy Bell – ‘Cherry Cola (Pye Corner Audio remix)’
AS his GLOK side-project shows, Andy Bell is a shoegazing legend who really isn’t afraid to embrace the tronica; in the spirit of which, the latest single he’s released from his superb solo album, The View From Halfway Down (read our review of the album here), comes subtly rerubbed through the prisms of Pye Corner Audio. …
ALBUM REVIEW: Andy Bell – ‘The View From Halfway Down’: superb psych-pop solo set
The View From Halfway Down is an eclectic and heady mix of psych, folk, tronica, baggy looseness and more – and nary puts a foot wrong. An absolutely excellent solo set
NEWS: bdrmm announce EP for October – hear a track; tour news
YORKSHIRE’S rather excellent shoegazers bdrmm have announced a new EP, The Bedroom Tapes, which they’ll be releasing through the offices of Sonic Cathedral on October 23rd. The EP will consist of seven tracks, and will collate remixes and lockdown sessions as a follow-up to their excellent debut album Bedroom, which was released earlier in the …
SEE: bdrmm’s ‘Gush’ gets a short film; tour news; album on red vinyl
SONIC CATHEDRAL’S excellent young shoegazers bdrmmm have released a “Gush” as a single today from their debut LP – and there’s a limited red-vinyl pressing of the album available now at selected independents. “Gush” is a rather gorgeous autumnal yearn of a ‘gaze tune, Ryan’s vocals a dreamy call blending with the guitars. And it …
NEWS: Yorkshire shoegaze princes bdrmm to live stream show tonight
YORKSHIRE’S shoegaze princes-in-waiting, bdrmm, who have a rather lovely debut LP under their belts for Sonic Cathedral in the shape of this summer’s Bedroom (stop by and read our review, then proceed forthwith to Sonic Cathedral to get thee a copy), are to live-stream a free show tonight, August 11th. The show will be relayed …
Track: Andy Bell remixes bdrmm’s ‘Reason To Celebrate’
IT’S a marriage made in (sonic) heaven: new-skool Yorkshire shoegazers bdrmm have debuted a remix of their current single, “Reason To Celebrate” by Ride man Andy Bell. Working under his GLOK nom-de-plume, Andy has taken the anthemic original – with its yearning refrain and towering guitars very much in the early Creation-era Ride vein and …
Say Psych: Album Review, Balance by Lorelle Meets The Obsolete
I have to admit that for quite a while I was rather agnostic about Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, I didn’t really see what the fuss was all about, while the likes of Henry Rollins raving about them. Then I saw the Mexican duo perform that the Liverpool Psych Fest a few years ago and, like so often …