New York based Phantom Handshakes release their new album A Passport to Remain early next month. A lead single and accompanying video have just been released and Stuck in a Fantasy is another classy combination of dreamy and ethereal indiepop … Continue reading Phantom Handshakes – Stuck in a Fantasy
Love Being is the second single to be taken from the forthcoming album Love Lives in the Body from the Los Angeles based dream poppers Soft Blue Shimmer. It’s another glistening effort reminding me of music from the early 1990s. … Continue reading Soft Blue Shimmer – Love Being
Drag Me Down is the debut single from the Long Beach based Stillfilms. The band, who consist of Sophia Medina (vocals), Daniel Romero (guitar) and Zach Lehrich (drums), deliver a blend of dreampop that a few have compared to The … Continue reading Stillfilms – Drag Me Down
French band Callière are in danger of being upstaged by their remixers. First it was The Churchhill Garden and now it’s 93MillionMilesFromTheSun who shine, turning their attention to the band’s most recent single Tombstones. The original was an ethereal and … Continue reading Callière – Tombstones (93MillionMilesFromTheSun Remix)
More noisy shoegaze from Tokyo’s April Blue. It errs on the rockier side of the genre as the guitars and percussion come together as the vocals rise to the surface. Pasting the lyrics through a translator suggests two lovers making … Continue reading April Blue – Nocturne
As another month slowly draws to a close let’s recap some fine releases from this month the previous month too. Encapsulated in this mix is another selection of indiepop, dreampop, shoegaze alongside some power-pop and post-punk thrown in for good measure. Thanks for listening and as ever enjoy! Track listing: Desmond Doom – I Hope I Never See Your Face Again Laveda – Surprise Love Dance – Parallel Lines Delivery – Baader Meinhof Oceans – High Swiss Portrait – Hideout Roller Derby – Only You UJU – We Should’ve Walked But We Ran Lilac – Scatterbrain Lasitud – [Triste Pop … Continue reading Records I Like Mix September 2022
The new single from The Blue Herons is like a fine tea with jangle pop and dreampop being the blended varieties. I refuse to call it Janglegaze! The upbeat music and the lyrics that espouse melancholy are mandatory when it … Continue reading The Blue Herons – Autumn Leaves
UJU hail from Dumaguete in the Philippines. However if I had not read that I would have sworn that they came from Sweden given how this track sounds. Give it a listen and think Agent Blå or Hater then you … Continue reading UJU – We Should’ve Walked But We Ran
Laveda are one of those bands who pop up on a regular basis in my Bandcamp feed due to friends and contacts buying their songs. To be honest the band have not grabbed me as much as my friends and, given the amount I listen to or purchase, I have not ventured further. That is until now and the release of their latest single Surprise. A surprise? It certainly was thanks to the shimmering, soaring dreampop and upbeat sound that beguiles the melancholy of the words that deal with loss and loneliness. There are so many bands producing this sort … Continue reading Laveda – Surprise
This week’s pack of three features singles taken from forthcoming and recently released albums/EPs. Virgins – Signalling Virgins are from Belfast and Signalling is the second track to be taken from the forthcoming EP titled Transmit A Little Heaven. It’s … Continue reading Something For The Weekend? Three To Be Found Elsewhere
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