A new week and a new playlist. Some great new tracks for you including one from the new project of Ville Hopponen (ex Cats on Fire, Le Futur Pompiste etc.) alongside tracks from the likes of Airiel, The Luxembourg Signal, Just Blankets, The Weed Hounds. Not forgetting the return of Flying Num Stalwarts Sneaky Feelings of course! Enjoy…. Continue reading Sundivers – A Records I Like Playlist (October 2017 #2)
Closure’s Journey EP is one of the releases of the year for me. Their post-punk/indie pop hybrid sound shows no sign of abating on their contribution Warehouse. Jangling guitars and morose vocals. What’s not too love? Flipside Strange Ways by Strangeways, who have been around for a while, is just as good. It’s slower paced and whilst there is something familiar about it I just cannot place it. Like the songs lyrics it does indeed get under the skin as well as in your head. A cracking release. It’s available on CDR from O Pamela or digitally from Let’s Kiss … Continue reading Closure/Strangeways – Split
A playlist encompassing my listening of the past two weeks featuring bands from around the globe. Enjoy! Continue reading Gravitation – A Records I Like Playlist (October 2017 #1)
Wow. A rather splendid 7″ single via the PNKSLM Recordings label featuring two excellent bands from Sweden. Rabbits by Boys is a dreamy, indiepop number that draws it influences from 1960’s girl bands to 1980’s UK indie and utilises them to great effect not to dissimilar to what The School were doing a while back. . Facebook Lose Yr Skull by Magic Potion on the AA side may upset the indiepop purists out there but their garage inspired take on the genre gets the thumbs up from me especially when it comes to the vocals that give this track so … Continue reading Boys/Magic Potion – Split 7″
More tuneful indiepop for you today in the shape of Fuerzas Absurdas (Absurd Forces in English) from Puzzles y Dragones. It’s taken from their forthcoming debut album Vuelven Puzzles y Dragones and is their first release since 2013’s Somos Puzzles y Dragones. As for the track it’s catchy and bouncy in all the right places despite the sombre lyrics (I had to translate them!). I will be keeping an ear out for the album which is due out next month on Discos De Kirlian. Facebook Continue reading Puzzles y Dragones – Fuerzas Absurdas
Busan’s Say Sue Me could have eaily made one of the, if not, best tracks of the year for me. Good For Some Reason has been on constant repeat for a couple of weeks now and I don’t see that changing for quite some time. Indiepop at it’s glorious best. Excuse whilst I press play once more…… A vinyl version will appear on the Damnably label in the future but for now get it from the band digitally. Facebook Continue reading Say Sue Me – Good For Some Reason
It’s been a strange month both inside and outside of work so I have not had the time to post as much as I would have liked. So here is the first of two playlists that I will post this weekend covering indiepop, shoegaze, dream pop and alt-rock. Enjoy. Continue reading We’re Doing Fine – A Records I Like Playlist (September #2)
Well we are well into the month so it’s about time for a playlist rounding up the various tracks that have been catching my ear via the usual places. That’s not when I have been listening to the new album, The Punishment of Luxury, from Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark which is surprisingly very good. I have also been catching up with 2013’s English Electric which is even better. Back to the playlist which features some excellent tracks from the likes of Jetstream Pony, Tough Age, Glass Arcades, Closure and many more! Continue reading Like You Less – A Records I Like Playlist (September 2017 #1)
The Proctors have been a bit quite these past couple of years but two new tracks have appeared on their Soundcloud page with Silhouettes being my pick of the two. Simply put this is an epic, beautiful melodic song with the haunting female backing vocals sending a tingle down the spine. There is no need for me to gush further. Just press play! Facebook Continue reading The Proctors – Silhouettes
Indiepop veterans, John Peel faves and ex Sarah Records band Even As We Speak have released their first material since 1993. Entitled The Black Forest it’s a 5 track EP and the first three songs here sound like they have never been away. Standout tracks Clouds and Such A Good Feeling are likely to be two of the best indiepop songs you are likely to hear this year. To these ears it’s sadly let down by the last two tracks and maybe it should be a three track 7″ rather than a 10″ release as planned. But that’s what fast … Continue reading Even As We Speak – The Black Forest
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