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
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
Letchworth Garden City is home to some fine things including Dave’s and the Garden Brewery. Now I can add The Chickpea Darlings to that small list. Bitter Lemon is their second album and they write that it’s a “bucket of … Continue reading The Chickpea Darlings – Bitter Lemon
Pamplona’s Nuevos Hobbies will be releasing their second album early next year on Hurrah! Música and Discos De Kirlian. Titled Monstruoso it will be the follow up to 2017’s Palmeras. Both labels have released No Puedo Esperar as a single/preview … Continue reading Nuevos Hobbies – No Puedo Esperar
Filipino band Cinéma Lumière release their new EP Will You Catch Me? on October 9th 2020. It’s being released via the brand new Manila based independent artist-run record label Catshelf Records. The only preview track is a 25 second excerpt … Continue reading Cinéma Lumière – Dreamcatcher
Spanish label Discos De Kirlian has compiled and released a compilation by New York’s Toy Cities. The compilation features the bands two EP’s to date being, as you may have guessed by the post title, Ocean Bloom (2016) and last … Continue reading Toy Cities – Digital Waves/Ocean Bloom
Vacance is a new band hailing from Bordeaux, France. They comprise of Allison who provides both words and voice alongside Laurent (Lokomotiv Sofia) and Michaël (Feutre/Watoo Watoo). Like many indiepop bands these days they draw heavily on post-punk influences such … Continue reading Vacance – Bord De Mer
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