This is a mix for all those who may be missing the Coldwave, Darkwave, Post-Punk, Goth-Rock and Minimal Synth playlists I used to make. Okay – don’t all rush forward! Anyway here is a selection of Post-Punk tunes from the … Continue reading Midnight Cure – A Post Punk Mix
Terry Vs. Tori return with a song that could have easily graced the Labrador Records catalogue circa 2008. Opening with what sounds like a cassette tape being inserted the song soon mixes a 70’s vibe and indiepop. It’s not too hard to think of bands associated with the aforementioned label and Braille sounds like the Acid House Kings making music under a searing Spanish sun. Facebook Continue reading Terry Vs. Tori – Braille
The Other Side of Midnight is the first we have heard from Star Tropics since their 2017 album Lost Worlds. And it’s well worth the wait as they return with a charming indiepop song despite the maudlin lyrics. The band take their cues from the jangling (shambling?) C86 bands and the subsequent Sarah Records roster before applying their own delicious take across the indiepop board. Most marvellous! Facebook Continue reading Star Tropics – The Other Side of Midnight
There’s dream pop and there’s dreamy pop and Numb certainly falls into the latter. Any track with such fine rhythmical guitars is certainly going to enthrall the listener and the folkish tinged Numb does that alright reminding me a bit of Fanfarlo or Mojave 3. It’s also a taster for a new EP that follows later this year on Cold Lunch Recordings. Facebook Continue reading Hari The Band – Numb
Unlikely Partners is a collection of songs that flirt with the sounds of C86 and the jangle pop of the Paisley Underground. The band, who feature members of The Drums and Violens, deliver an album which doesn’t give us one standout track or wasted fillers but instead treats the listener to eight consistently strong songs. These include the short and poppy Deborah, the psychedelic-tinged Suds and the jangling Psychic Self-Defense. Entertaining stuff. Continue reading Perfect Strangers – Unlikely Partners
Battery Point have been consistently delivering some great tunes for the past few years and Desire keeps that run of success going. It contains all the ingredients that have made have the band stand out and Desire errs between the lines of indiepop and shoegaze with the joint vocalists sounding better than they have ever done. Desire remains in the consciousness long after it finishes, and I am sure this one will be in the 2019 best of lists despite the year only being two months in! Continue reading Battery Point – Desire
Swarm is the third track released by Brighton based Dreams of Empire in as many months. It’s an engaging dream pop song with the guitars echoing back and forth whilst the female vocals compete against the wake of reverb left by said guitars. It’s lyrically strong too. Impressive to say the least. Facebook Continue reading Dreams of Empire – Swarm
Monuments Of Faith is the title track from the forthcoming EP by New York based post-punk outfit Pawns. Musically it’s a fast paced slab of the darker side of post punk whilst the vocal style combines both hardcore and goth rock delivery which results in an impressive, melodic track. The EP is out soon on 7″ vinyl via London based label Inflammable Material. Facebook Continue reading Pawns – Monuments Of Faith
And the round up is on day two…. Patrick Farrugia – Too Late Patrick Farrugia has been releasing music for a few years now and the two tracks on Too Late is the first I have heard from him. Both tracks are 1980s-inspired or in the case of Oblivion 100% inspired by New Order’s Age of Consent such are the similarities between the two. Not bad then! Sadly less said about Olympiad the better. I am left wondering if it’s actually by the same person. Very MOR. Just grab the first track. Facebook Crystal Eyes/Marlaena Moore – Radical Softness – … Continue reading February Round Up #2
Before I have had even time to blink I have racked almost a century of emails in my bandcamp folder. Time to wade through some of those tracks that are piling up! Leathers – Phantom Heart Leathers is the project of Shannon Hemmett who is also a member of Canadian post-punk band Actors. Phantom Heart mixes synth pop and dark wave to great effect. Facebook Sheer – Glimpse Glimpse is the first track in almost two years from Californians Sheer. It’s worth the wait as Glimpse is a laid back alt-rock track with lovely female vocals which betray the melancholic … Continue reading February Round Up #1
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