Ego Loss is a cracking (I say that word way too much!) new tune from the forthcoming Flowers album Everybody’s Dying To Meet You which will be out on Fortuna Pop (UK & Europe) and Kanine (US) next February. If your appetite still needs whetting Pull My Arm will be the opening track: Facebook Continue reading Flowers – Ego Loss
The Manhattan Love Suicides release their new single Bikini Party / Birthday Kill in January on Oddbox Records. It’s less fuzzy than their previous efforts but it’s still a glorious noise. Play it loud! Bikini Party / Birthday Kill is available in limited edition 7″ vinyl as well as digital formats. Pre-order from here. Facebook Continue reading The Manhattan Love Suicides – Bikini Party / Birthday Kill
Barcelona’s Jessica & The Fletchers have just released their debut album. Entitled Connecting People it’s chock fall of noisy and fun pop tunes that hark back to years gone by especially the fuzzier side of the C86 era. So much so they should have released it on a flexi disc. Connecting People is limited to just 100 CD copies (it’s begging for a vinyl release) on the Discos De Kirlian label. Get it from here or digitally from the band or label. Facebook Continue reading Jessica & The Fletchers – Connecting People
This is an excellent piece of indiepop from Hethers who seem to have lost a letter from their name since I last heard them. Luckily nowt has been lost on the music quality front. Excellent gloomy pop! Get it from their bandcamp page. It’s available on a pay what you want basis. Facebook Continue reading Hethers – Guiding Light
Spanking new single from Russian experimental shoegazers Pinkshinyultrablast. It’s backed with a version on the flip and is out on Club AC30 on October 2nd. Sadly the limited edition vinyl has sold out but you will be able to get it in digital formats via the usual places. The band start their UK tour tomorrow (Friday 25th Sept) and I can vouch that they are well worth catching. Facebook Continue reading Pinkshinyultrablast – Kiddy Pool Dreams
Excellent stuff from Finland. Experimental meets shoegaze, indiepop and noisepop amongst others . There is plenty of stuff on the bandcamp page to download for nowt but this latest release is the best work so far especially on opening track Astrals (Collide) which sounds like a mashup between The Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine. Final track Uphill Shadows is also worth a listen venturing into Aphex Twin territory circa the Richard D. James album period. Nice! Continue reading Sans Néant – Astral / Leaves / Behind
Given the depressing recent election result here in the UK, where we need to get back to a socialist labour party and not one that panders to the middle classes, petty nationalism and the Murdoch press, the timing of this album could not be more apt. That Petrol Emotion once sang “educate, antagonise, organise” and hopefully this album can be part of that rallying cry. I don’t do reviews anymore but if I did they would be like this. It’s out now as a 45rpm vinyl album via Future Perfect Records. Order it from here (US). Those in the UK … Continue reading Hard Left – We Are Hard Left
Next weekend sees the fifth and final Oddbox Weekender. To celebrate this fact the label have released a free 27 track compilation featuring bands who are playing over the course of the three days. It includes tracks from the likes of Fever Dream, The Spook School, The Manhattan Love Suicides, Horowitz and many more. Get it from here. Hurry though – the download will be removed on 4th May! More info and tickets for the Weekender can be found here. Facebook Continue reading Various Artists – Odd Box Weekender V
Mercury Girls contain two members of Literature and Catnaps which alone should be a recommendation to give these tracks a listen. Some nice fuzzy guitars and shared vocals here (well the standard indiepop template then) which get my feet tapping here alone in an empty office bathed in the spring sun. It’s a pay what you want download from here. Facebook Continue reading Mercury Girls – Demos
Excellent noisy, fuzzy shoegaze with female vocals from Baltimore’s Wildhoney. And it’s all over in just 35 minutes and a bit minutes. Cracking stand out tracks too including Molly and the luscious Owe You Nothing. Pick it up via Forward Records (US) or Deranged Records (International Orders) or digitally (Bandcamp). Facebook Bandcamp Continue reading Wildhoney – Sleep Through It
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