After just over a year away Malmö’s Hater return with their new single Bad Luck. Vocalist Caroline explains that “The song is about some kind of social awkwardness between myself and new faces. Feeling left out due to not knowing … Continue reading Hater – Bad Luck
Ontario’s Capitol release their new EP All The Rest Of My Heads on September 15th 2021. As is the case these days, and something I still cannot understand, the band have released the first single from the EP in the … Continue reading Capitol – Always Saying Nothing
Keep It Together from Amsterdam’s Pip Blom is the first single to be taken from their forthcoming album Welcome Break which is due out on October 8th 2021. If the tracks on that album are half as good as this … Continue reading Pip Blom – Keep It Together
Chicago’s Lightfoil produced one of the finest moments of 2018 with their single Summer Nights which appeared in an even more wonderful extended form on that year’s Chambers long-player and that was er it. Until now that is as they return a new line up with another epic alt-rock/shoegaze track full of noisy guitars and trippy moments in the shape of Sunblind. It’s backed with a Vet Trip mix of Honeydew that appeared on said album. The shimmering guitars of the original are replaced with a steady drumbeat that highlights the female vocal which may or may not be the … Continue reading Lightfoils – Sunblind
Kælan Mikla – Ósýnileg The new single from Icelandic post-punk band Kælan Mikla is a thing of beauty. The combination of the sound and vocals is incredible. The video only supplements the visuals created in your mind as you listen … Continue reading Post-Punk Sunday
Another mix of shoegaze, dreampop and indiepop for your listening pleasure culled from tracks released in the last month or so and some beyond. As ever enjoy! Full Tracklisting: Lemondaze – io The Reds, Pinks & Purples – No One … Continue reading Records I Like Mix May 2021
I got tagged in a post on Twitter the other week. I could not see the actual post I was tagged in (I hope it was complimentary) but the post that started the thread was from someone who wrote that … Continue reading Ten Track Sampler
Los Lucha hails from Glasgow and is comprised of just the one fella Samuel Fawkes who writes, performs and produces the songs. Fawkes writes that he is “heavily influenced by Dean Wareham, the Velvet Underground, Beat Happening and the C86 … Continue reading Los Lucha – Los Lucha
French band Je T’Aime describe themselves as Cold-Punk (yeah, I like that!) and they look to early Factory Records and Manchester in general for inspiration. The original version of Another Day in Hell is very guitar-driven and, whilst it has … Continue reading Je T’Aime – Another Day in Hell
It’s freezing in London and with no Beltane fires to keep me warm these tracks from Sweden & Finland (brrrr) will have to that job instead! SJÖBLOM – Tape Stockholm’s SJÖBLOM is Johan formerly of the Swedish post-punk band The … Continue reading Bonus Three Pack – Swirling around The Maypole
