Another round-up of post-punk, synth-pop and goth-rock via a YouTube playlist. Maybe I should have kept some of these tracks back for the end of the month and for the Halloween kitchen/living room dancefloors! BlakLight – Unknown Love (Facebook – … Continue reading Pandemia
Candy Opera are a 1960’s inspired pop band who originally formed in Liverpool as far back as 1982. Despite interest from a couple of labels nothing came to fruition and the band disbanded a decade later with demo recordings preserved … Continue reading Candy Opera – These Days Are Ours
Hero No Hero hail from Southern California and consist of The Francine Odysseys founder/writer Gretchen DeVault on vocals whilst Ken Aki, who has played live with Starry Eyed Cadet, provides the words and instruments. They write that their music “evokes … Continue reading Hero No Hero – Hero No Hero
Another busy month in the land of Bandcamp. The latest mix sees epic shoegaze, alt-rock, dreampop and indiepop collide to great effect if I do say so myself. Please use the search function to find out more and if you … Continue reading Records I Like Mix October 2020
Family Mart – Starlite Texans Family Mart follow up their addictive My Anarcha-Feminist Crush single with a new song Starlite. The track encompasses a clash of styles from range from New Order style guitar to C86 indiepop. Now that truly … Continue reading The Thursday Quartet
Flying Fish Cove have just released a new four-track EP titled Viridian. They have also released a video to accompany the title track and it’s “a playful remake” of the video which accompanied Cyndi Lauper’s 1984 hit Time After Time. … Continue reading Flying Fish Cove – Viridian
Bristol’s Hamburger release their debut EP Teenage Terrified via Specialist Subject Records in December. Supersad is the first track we get to hear and it’s a slice of miserableness with words to empathize with and a tune to bounce around … Continue reading Hamburger – Supersad
The Sound of Young Sumatera is a new compilation, alongside a play on words, from Shiny Happy Records. As the title suggests the compilation features twelve bands from the Indonesia Island of Sumatera playing indiepop, dreampop and indierock. Thankfully the … Continue reading Various Artists – The Sound of Young Sumatera
Yay! Flowers are back with their first single for over three years. I am not sure how many songs about have wayward pet hamsters have previously featured on this blog (I could take a guess!) but that’s what the new … Continue reading Flowers – Erik
Wisconsin based According to What, who impressed on their debut EP Punk Songs To Hold Hands To, have just released their debut album. Titled A Time You Felt Insecure Around All Your Friends it’s chock full punk-pop tracks that gave … Continue reading According to What – A Time You Felt Insecure Around All Your Friends
