Skep Wax have announced that they will be releasing new albums from Jeanines and Lightheaded, with both being a joint release with the US label Slumberland Records, as well as announcing details of a joint UK tour. Jeanines will be … Continue reading Skep Wax News – Jeanines & Lightheaded
I started putting this sampler together a fortnight ago and just when it was ready another track came along and I had to include it. Still I managed to impose a limit or I would have been here to the … Continue reading The “Day After Days” Sampler
Continuing (reviving) the series of posting albums and/or EPs as and when they are released (or usually a bit after!) as a follow-up to the initial new tracks/singles posted on this blog. Sample the release via the YouTube track (s) … Continue reading Recommended Releases 14/04/2025
I noticed an EP titled Rock Paper Scissors! has just turned up on Bandcamp with a release date of a couple of months ago. Despite being on the Japanese label Galaxy Train Darlivie are an Indonesian outfit based on the … Continue reading Darlivie – Rock Paper Scissors!
The latest release from those Heavenly Punks, Disanorak Records, is a split between two bands regularly featured on these pages. Maisonette provide Polite that is a nice slice of harmonious indiepop that sees them slowly moving away from their Mighty … Continue reading Maisonette / The Sensitive – Split
Indonesian post-punk band Doust have released their first single since 2023’s Strange Places single. It’s a gloomy goth synth driven track full of classic 1980’s sounding hooks, deadpan and shouty vocals with a fusion of The Cure and Killing Joke … Continue reading Doust – Alone In This Room
Japanese shoegazers Kildren have released their first single in exactly a year and it’s the kind of female fronted shoegaze I am a sucker for. The slow burning guitars make for a dark and sometimes haunting spectacle. In places it … Continue reading Kildren – Nocturnal
Unexpected Feelings is the debut EP from the relatively new Indonesian act Texas Two and this release features the vocals of Polar Tree’s Anya on a couple of the EP’s four tracks. If last December’s I Die For You , … Continue reading Texas Two – Unexpressed Feelings
German indiepoppers Brideshead are back after ten years away. The band, who are celebrating their 30th anniversary resplendent with a new drummer, have announced the release of a new album. Titled You Are The Light it’s their fourth album and … Continue reading Brideshead – Satellite
Makassar’s The Interpretation Cultures write that the two songs found on this release “inspired by some of releases indie label disanorak/heavenpunks from Jakarta, and surrounding areas. in which we think has a raw style“. The first track Suicide Prevention has … Continue reading The Interpretation Cultures – Ignored Notifications
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