Smile – Hideout
Italian band Smile quickly follow up March’s debut album The Name of This Band Is Smile with a new single. I must admit to not being taken with that album in the main but on Hideout it is clearly a … Continue reading Smile – Hideout
Category: Jangle Pop
Howlin Banana Records – Summer Sampler #8
Parisian label Howlin Banana Records have released their annual summer sampler. It features a large number of bands featured on these pages including Pop Crimes, EggS, Gloria, Tapeworms, Siz and Hoorsees to name but a few. There is no point … Continue reading Howlin Banana Records – Summer Sampler #8
Cloudy Summer Days – Love Is In The Air
Los Angeles based Cloudy Summer Days released their third album Slow Dance earlier this month. The album’s lead track is Love Is In The Air and it is a retro-tinged bedroom pop track with some marvellous jangling guitar running over … Continue reading Cloudy Summer Days – Love Is In The Air
Something For The Weekend? Three New Singles
This weeks pack of three collates three brand new singles. H! – Stay At Home It’s been nearly a year since we heard from Jakarta based H! and I am not sure if it is still just the one individual, … Continue reading Something For The Weekend? Three New Singles
The Post Holiday Catch Up Sampler #2
The second “sampler” of the weekend rounding up a number of new releases from the past two weeks or so. A number more were not on You Tube so I hope to cover those at some point in the week. … Continue reading The Post Holiday Catch Up Sampler #2
The Post Holiday Catch Up Sampler #1
So after my first break away since December 2019, I have come back to a pretty full inbox and have started to catch up on releases from the past two weeks alongside tracks I did not have a chance to … Continue reading The Post Holiday Catch Up Sampler #1
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Records I Like Mix June 2021
It’s almost the end of a very busy month so, as compensation for being so late, this means a bumper mix of indiepop, dreampop, noisepop (more pop than a pop factory!), shoegaze and alt-rock. Play loud and as ever, enjoy! … Continue reading Records I Like Mix June 2021
Bridge Dog – Lemon
I have to be honest and say that on their two previous tracks Australian band Bridge Dog haven’t exactly set my ears on fire. But it’s early days for the duo and I persevere as they keep appearing in my … Continue reading Bridge Dog – Lemon
The Slow Summits – Then Again
I must not use the word catchy to describe the new single from Linköping’s C86 revivalists The Slow Summits. Instead, I will cheat and use the dictionary definition to simply say that Then Again is an attractive and appealing song … Continue reading The Slow Summits – Then Again
Starry Eyed Cadet – Feathers
Feathers, The new single from San Francisco’s Starry Eyed Cadet, is their first for their new label Lilystars Records. It’s a song about gun violence and how populist politicians use divisive rhetoric rather than solve the issue (s) at hand. … Continue reading Starry Eyed Cadet – Feathers
