Another day and more jangle pop. Canadian’s Randy Jupiter deliver two slices of jangling indiepop tracks which are not too far away of what The Death of Pop have been doing for a couple of years now. I am loving the slow melodic jangle on Hypersped whilst Big on U goes for it big time. Excellent! Download for nowt from here (or give them some dosh on a pay what you want basis). Continue reading Randy Jupiter – Space Boy
If Something Soon is a sign of the things to come on Sharespring’s forthcoming but, as of yet, untitled album then we are all in for a massive treat. Jangling indie pop that hits all the right spots on a lovely sunny day. Get it from the label here. Continue reading Sharesprings – Something Soon
The Blog That Celebrates Itself Records (TBTCI) specialises in producing compilation tribute album whether to an artist, label or even part of the world. This latest compilation is a roundup of the Asian Scene and includes both covers as well as new or recent original recordings. Musically the album contains indiepop, shoegaze and dreampop. Standout tracks come from Indonesian noise pop outfit See The Eye, Chinese Shoegazers Dear Eloise and Jaapn’s Fluffytails with a gorgeous cover of Lemon’s Chair’s SWallowtail. However Indonesian post-punk outfit Pullo win it for me Round The Bed complete with Ian Curtis style vocals. It’s a … Continue reading Compilation Week – TBTCI Dives Into Asian Sounds
El Sonido Del Río Hablador (Vol.1) is a twenty track compilation of Peruvian indiepop recordings from 2000-2009 which is well worth investigating. Some of these tracks are pretty raw, some are too bloody twee and some may not even meet the purists idea of what indiepop actually is. However, the further we head into the track listing the quality gets better and there is much to enjoy such as the Field Mice inspired Moon Over Soho, Numen’s excellent Losing You, Ambarina’s dreamy Tambourine and the instrumental Noodles At Bingo’s by Callahan. Highlight for me though is Agnes dice by Subterráneos … Continue reading Compilation Week – El Sonido Del Río Hablador (Vol.1)
Another monthly round up for your listening pleasure culled from my favourite selection of tracks over the past few weeks. Enjoy! Click on the image to start the playlist. More playlists can be found here and the Playmoss page is here. Continue reading Almost Happy – A Records I Like Playlist (June 2018 #1)
With the football, soccer if you prefer, World Cup kicking off next week Matinee Recordings have released a World Cup EP featuring five songs from five artists from countries partaking in this years tournament. Australia’s Last Leaves give us some jangle pop complete with cheering crowds whilst Spain’s The Royal Landscaping Society song harks back to their 2010 triumph. There are more cheering crowds on The Popguns effort Red White And Blue with the band doing their usual jangling thing driving England on to another quarter final defeat – if they make it pass the group stage this time that … Continue reading Various Artists – The Official Matinée World Cup EP
Some late bank holiday listening for you – well here in the UK anyway. Click on the image to start the playlist (opens in another window). Enjoy! More playlists can be found here and the Playmoss page is here. Continue reading Hopes and Fears – A Records I Like Playlist (May #1)
This weeks pack of three features three tracks from forthcoming debut albums. The Beths – Future Me Hates Me The title track from the forthcoming debut album from New Zealand band The Beths. It’s a fine slice of alt rock that will embed itself into your head due to it’s bounce. The album is out on August via Carpark Records – pre-order it from here. Facebook Young Scum – Wasting Time Superior jangle pop from Young Scum and a prelude to their debut, yet again self titled, album. Wasting Time, like 2016’s Zona, is pure pop perfection. It’s out on … Continue reading Something For The Weekend – Three from Forthcoming Debut Albums
Could this be the long awaited 7″ release on Matinee? I certainly hope so as we have been waiting for Malmo’s Tinsel Hearts to deliver a debut single for some time now. It sounds like they had gone down The Redskins route at the beginning of Mona’s Eyes as it gets a starts off like Lean On Me. Whilst not as funky it is still as dancey. American Friend sees the band returning back to familiar 1980’s jangling indie guitar territory. Tinsel Heart have given us two contrasting songs but more importantly, two very good songs indeed. Now is it … Continue reading Tinsel Heart – Mona’s Eyes/American Friend
Unfortunately the past ten days have seen me laid low by a viral infection hence the lack of posts. I have updated the playlist I had ready to go two weeks ago so it’s a bit of a bumper crop. Thankfully these tracks are more pleasant in their infectiousness than what I have been suffering with. Enjoy! Click on the image to start the playlist. More playlists can be found here and the Playmoss page is here. Continue reading Lost and Found – A Records I Like Playlist (April 2018 #1)
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