Californian’s Massage have released their first new song since last years Oh Boy album. Titled Michael Is My Girlfriend it’s a witty, catchy indie pop track containing plenty of hooks and other ear worms. The band state that it’s a preview of their second album which they promise to release later this year. Facebook Continue reading Massage – Michael Is My Girlfriend
Michigan’s Don’t have announced the details of their debut album Lightning Slow which is to be released on March 7th 2020 via Dreamy Life Records & Music. It contains eight songs which have been mixed and mastered by Fred Thomas from Saturday Looks Good To Me amongst others. The band have made available a preview track in the shape of I Don’t Care. It’s a thriving indie-pop track that mixes melodic guitars, synths and the voice of Frankie Ma to great effect. Lightning Slow can be pre-ordered in a range of formats from Dreamy Life Records & Music. Facebook Continue reading Don’t – I Don’t Care
Clubwater are a band from Bandung, Indonesia and I believe, unless I am mistaken, that Adult Angst is their first song for a few years now. It’s a catchy track that draws on influences from the past using them to shape the track into a well crafted indiepop song. An EP, from which the song is taken, follows later this year on Shiny Happy Records. The artwork is fantastic, reminding me of New Order’s imagery from their last tour. Grab the track from here. Continue reading Clubwater – Adult Angst
Australian indiepop outfit Egoism have a new single out. Titled You You it’s about “someone in my life causing me a lot of pain and I wrote this when I was finally trying to get away”. Despite the pain it’s catchy and, empathy aside, I wish some break ups in my life had been as tuneful as this. Get it from here. Bedroom Poppers Wake In June released a new song last week. It’s called Light Phaser and it’s full of those melodies and hooks we have learnt to enjoy so well. There are also some new swirling noises thrown … Continue reading Midweek Catch Up
Well a bit later than usual but finally here is the mix for February 2020 featuring tracks released in the past month or so – some a bit longer. 60 minutes of listening pleasure! Details and full tracklisting: Golden Teardrops – I Won’t Be Fooled Again Is that a bit of floor stompin’ northern soul I can hear creeping into to their brand of baroque/sunshine pop? I think it is you know! The Lousy Pop Group – Days It’s a gentle, wistful track that harks back to 1980s indiepop/twee and which fades away far too soon. Wild Nothing – Blue … Continue reading Records I Like Mix February 2020
This weeks pack of three features three bands from Australia. Relay Tapes – Dream Colour Brisbane’s Relay Tapes have been making ethereal shoegaze/dreampop for a couple of years now and the latest single Dream Colour is no exception to that … Continue reading Something For The Weekend? Three From Down Under
A catch up of stuff caught on the Records I Like Radar. The Radio Dept. have released a new single. Titled The Absence of Birds it’s backed with a remix of the same song. The former is a wispy indiepop song with folk-ish overtones whilst the latter mixes ambient with drone. You can get it from here. Diet Cig released a new track at the end of last month. Titled Night Terrors it’s a fine example of alternative pop with scary lyrics to match – boo! You can get it from here. Medway Scene veterans The Claim have a new … Continue reading Midweek Catch Up #1 – Indiepop &c
At the time of their last release, that being the excellent Uhm Yeah Sure EP, Stoop Kid was the project of one Jens Reubens. On this brand new EP it still is but now Reubens has formed a full band that will start to play gigs later this year. Anyway update over let’s return to the EP. The EP opens with the catchy Thought This Was The Uniform which gives way to the initially slower Done Deal. After opening with some chiming guitars with vocals to match the song picks up speed with jangling guitars kicking in for a minute … Continue reading Stoop Kid – Nothing At All
The Deerhof referenced Mountain Moves hail from Bandung, Indonesia forming in 2017. The band consist of a core of Ferin and Lajiw and the line-up expands when the band play live. On this, their debut release, the band produce four slabs of strong indiepop tunes on which the band already provide a distinctive sound far removed from the C86/Sarah Record influences produced by their peers. Whilst the sound is predominately twee the instruments come to the fore pushing the vocals to the background which was something I found too much, being a bit too sugary sweet, on first listens but … Continue reading Mountain Moves – Ocean Bliss EP
Tampopo’s last release Atompop was a pretty good EP so I was keen to hear how the follow up fared. Opener Down Under wrong footed me at first but the initial 1990s guitar sound soon gave way to more familiar indiepop sounds. OMG is one of those songs that remind me of so much but I just can’t put my finger on it! Suffice to say it’s a terrific jangling indiepop song with boy girl/vocals and erm, t-shirts. Despite coming from Denmark you would be forgiven thinking that the band come from, as the EP/first track titles and the artwork … Continue reading Tampopo – Half A World Away
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