London’s Night Flowers cover Chrissie Hynde’s poignant tribute from 1983 to fellow Pretenders founder James Honeyman-Scott on this faithful to the original version. If you know the original then I am sure you will concur with my comments but if it’s a new song to you the guitars/chimes will/still haunt no matter who is playing them. All monies from this release go to C.A.L.M (Campaign Against Living Miserably). Facebook Continue reading Night Flowers – 2000 Miles
I am not sure when I last heard Life Model – must be a good four or five years now. They are not fuzzy as they once were but instead deliver a more laid back and genteel version of dreampop on their two contributions here. In fact it reminds me of their long gone but never forgotten city mates The Hermit Crabs. They are joined by fellow Glaswegians and new to me Home Economics who jangle their way through their two tracks in their own unique way and one of those, Idiots, is my pick of the four here. Available … Continue reading Home Economics/Life Model – Idiots/Real Estate Split Single
Normally as the we head towards the end of the year releases tend to dry up replaced by Christmas singles and specials. But my goodness there has been so much good stuff, released this past month or so, it’s made a second Playmoss playlist full of choice tunes possible. As ever click on the image to start. Enjoy! More playlists can be found here and the Playmoss page is here. Continue reading Don’t Let Go Of The Light – A Records I Like Playlist (November 2018 #2)
This month’s podcast features current highlights from the world of indiepop, shoegaze, janglepop, dreampop and noise pop. That’s a lot of pop! Full Tracklisting 1. Comet Gain – If Not Tomorrow The current single out now on Tapete Records 2. Sea Pinks – Grown Up Kids Track taken from the band’s current album Rockpool Blue 3. Hater – It’s So Easy The latest single from the band’s Siesta album (Fire Records) 4. Sleepwalk – Bumblebee Taken from the forthcoming album Splatter (Emma’s House Records) 5. Elenin – Kalam Lead track from the Masa Masa EP out now on Don’t Fade … Continue reading The Records I Like Podcast – November 2018
I think this final post of the week finally sees me catching up with my bandcamp bookmarks, well the stuff I liked, for now. Lightfoils – Summer Nights (radio edit) An absolute belter of a shoegazing track. Dreamy and ethereal. Just the way I like ’em. I cannot really say any more so press play now! Edit: A longer 8 minute version can be found on the just released Chambers EP. Facebook Death of Heather – I Can Tell Bangkok’s Death of Heather build upon the promise of their July demos delivering a lovely polished dreampop effort that will be … Continue reading Give, Give, Give Me More, More, More…..
Today’s round up features compilations that may, or may not, grab your ears and attention….. Goodbye Idiots II A compilation put together to celebrate Mexican label Stupid Decisions second birthday. It features some excellent indiepop tunes from the likes of Marble Gods, Andrew Younker and Orchid Mantis amongst others. However it’s the new to me Perrogato and their track Fiesta Alienígena which is the pick of the bunch of those currently available for steaming. Pre-order it from here. Facebook Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 2 – Americas´Attack The Blog That Celebrates Itself Records follow up last years Brazilian compilation … Continue reading Now That’s What I Call Compilations…..
Another round up of singles and EP’s for your listening pleasure…… Blushing – The Truth / Sunshine The first single to be taken from dreampoppers Blushing’s debut album due for release early next year. The flip side Sunshine is a shimmering delight in the way Lush sounded when they first emerged many moons ago. Get your vinyl copy of the single from here. Facebook The Hannah Barberas – No Mystery EP Another fine EP from the fans of Jessica Fletcher. It’s more consistent than the debut EP and I really like the Throwing Muses like Spellbound. The EP is currently … Continue reading Singles Going Steady……
Albatross is the first we have heard from Sweden’s dreampop act Star Horse since the excellent Slower Now single released back in 2015. It’s worth the wait as Albatross soars across the skies as the song shines, having an almost spiritual feel over the course of it’s eight and a half minutes “flight”. Albatross is taken from the forthcoming album You Said Forever due for release in February next year. Facebook Continue reading Star Horse – Albatross
Another bumper crop of tunes for you to enjoy over the weekend which leaves me to start collating my best of lists for the end of the year! As ever click on the image to start….. However before then there will be another Mixcloud podcast sometime next week as the feedback for the last one was quite positive and saw it reach the giddy heights of 66 in the Mixcloud charts… Thanks all! More playlists can be found here and the Playmoss page is here. Continue reading Dreamy Eyes – A Records I Like Playlist (November #1)
Earache hail from down under and is the project of Gemma Nourse (No Stars, Shopgirl) and David Fenderson (Territory, Sob Story, Cure). This, their debut release, features two slices of dreamy indiepop with more than a hint of shoegazing about it’s person and lovely boy/girl vocals to the boot too. The debut album Last follows soon. Meanwhile head over to Lacklustre Records to get this excellent double header on cassette or digital formats. It’s also available digitally from Black Wire Records. Continue reading Earache – Voices/Parasite
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