Toska Po Domu (Homesickness) is the side project of Konstantin Ostrovsky who also records as Kondratie. Whereas the latter is synthpop as dark as it can be the music here is vintage-sounding coldwave. The two tracks contained within are not … Continue reading Toska Po Domu – Okurki/Myasnaya Lavka
Suffering For Kisses – Change Tony D’Oporto aka Suffering For Kisses has always had a deadpan vocal style to run alongside his blend of moody inspired darkwave beats. But on Change he turns in his best vocal effort to date … Continue reading Post Punk Tuesday
Sernard Bumner is the moniker Enrico, aka Wake In June, is using for his synthpop project. Ignoring the pretty awful name (a pun on the name of New Order’s frontman) there are some interesting sounds on this one. Given that … Continue reading Sernard Bumner – Sernard Bumner
Midnight Flowers – Never You Never You is the second release in as many months from this new band comprising of in-laws Tatiana and Charles. Their music blends indie-rock and indiepop with the female vocals delicately poised over woven layers … Continue reading Hit Me With Your Rhythm Six
The Umbrella Puzzles is the project of Ryan Marquez who also appears in Apple Orchard and the Golden Teardrops. Marquez’s low key indie/janglepop under The Umbrella Puzzles moniker has impressed these ears and the three tracks here are no exception. … Continue reading The Umbrella Puzzles – Slip Through The Cracks
For their new single Swansea Sound will be making available a single seven-inch copy which, as the title suggests, will be sold on eBay. As they sing “I sold my soul on eBay…Bids were derisory. I need some money. Don’t … Continue reading Swansea Sound – I Sold My Soul on Ebay
Bangkok based Traveling With Monika have had a busy month and Creeping is the third single they have released in December. They certainly are not pigeon-holed when it comes to their sound and this track is an epic, sometimes goth-tinged, … Continue reading Traveling With Monika – Creeping
Sunny Summer Day are an indiepop band from Bandung, Indonesia. They have been around for a number of years now releasing their debut single on Cloudberry Records back in 2007 and we last heard from them on 2016’s Traveled Backwards … Continue reading Sunny Summer Day – 夕暮れと月 (Dusk and Moon)
Just some rambling notes……. I have never compiled as many best-of mixes as I have done this year. Given that I have been based at home since the middle of February and listened to tons of music I should not … Continue reading Records I Like Best of 2020 Part Three
The self-titled debut EP from the Manila’s Public Places was released last month via Catshelf Records. I am not sure how I missed it given Cinéma Lumière are labelmates but the EP has been picked up by the Shenzhen based … Continue reading Public Places – Public Places
