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As lockdown continues so does my exploration of music. The UK indie scene shows signs of growth. Swansea Sound and the returning Lodger keep the flag flying. Foundlings have renamed themselves Hadda Be and deliver a punchy slab of alt-rock … Continue reading Records I Like Mix February 2021
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So this mix sees off the last of 2020 and welcomes in 2021. Despite the ongoing lockdown, there is still plenty of music old and new to discover. Of course, this mix focuses on the new. There are plenty of … Continue reading Records I Like Mix January 2021
Today’s post leads on nicely from yesterdays. Hamburg based Choir Division write that they are “probably the world’s first and one and only choir to worship the music of Joy Divison and New Order”. We have not heard from them … Continue reading Choir Division – Passover/Blue Monday
Rotters Golf Club recently marked a year since the passing of Andrew Weatherall by releasing a digital version of a single by his brother Iain and collaborator Duncan Gray, known as The Slough Boys, as a tribute. It’s a cover … Continue reading IWDG – In A Lonely Place
The Blue Herons return with a brand new single. The band, who feature Andy Jossi (Switzerland) and Gretchen DeVault (US), produce a jangle-pop tune of the highest order with Endless Rain (or should that be lockdowns?). DeVault’s maudlin words are … Continue reading The Blue Herons – Endless Rain
Yesterday I mentioned some of the blogs I read in order to discover new music. Today I want to mention one of the regular mixes I listen to. I have been following Stephan’s Emmas House Music (named after that song) … Continue reading Jumping Someone Elses Train #2
That’s DIY done for another weekend. It’s at times like this that I cannot be bothered to dig deep through my Bandcamp pile for my listening pleasure. That’s the cue too cast my eyes over the blogs I like reading … Continue reading Jumping Someone Else’s Train
This weeks pack of three feature three new releases plucked straight from my Bandcamp feed. Corduroy – Gråa Dagar Swedish band Corduroy follow up last October’s Blomster with a new song. The aforementioned single was self-released but it looks like … Continue reading Something For The weekend? Three New Singles
New to me band Caution hail from Maryland and were formed by Nora Button and Cash Langdon formerly of Washington based Saturday Night. The band have just released their new self titled extended EP/Mini album for their new label Born … Continue reading Caution – Buy My Life
The Line Managers come from England’s second City Birmingham and Nothing Seems To Work is the band’s debut single. Mixing power-pop with folk/skiffle tinged indiepop that was a staple fixture in the indie charts of the mid to late 1980s … Continue reading The Line Managers – Nothing Seems To Work
Costa Rican dreampop/shoegaze band Adiós Cometa release their new EP La Isla Que Somos early next month. It’s being released by the Californian label Velvet Blue Music and features five tracks including the recent singles Norte and Franco. I noticed … Continue reading Adiós Cometa – Luces
The latest single from the Japanese band Stomp Talk Modstone sees them abandoning their familiar noisy fuzz-laden shoegaze in favour of a gentle rock and roll ballad. Goodbye, False Friend could easily be on the soundtrack of one of that … Continue reading Stomp Talk Modstone – Goodbye, False Friend
