This is marvellous. Illustrious shoegaze from Switzerland with US songstress Krissy Vanderwoude providing the words, which are hard not to empathise with, and her lovely voice once more. If you think the artwork is beautiful wait until you hear the song! Continue reading The Churchhill Garden feat. Krissy Vanderwoude – Noise
Another fine release on Italian dreampop/shoegaze label Lady Sometimes. Inetti n.1 is an upbeat dream pop effort despite some of it’s sombre lyrics (thanks google translate!). I would be hard pressed not to believe that this wasn’t a track on any number of the Indie Top 20 albums from the 1990’s given it’s excellent retro sound. I have not heard of the band before and without the likes of this label I wonder if I ever would. They have been around for a few years now given their Bandcamp discography. More delving methinks! Homepage Continue reading Cosmetic – Inetti n.1
This month’s podcast features a selection of the best tracks to be released in January plus a few from the end of 2018 that slipped through the net. A glorious mix of indiepop, garage, janglepop and shoegaze if I do say so myself. Enjoy! Full Track Listing 01. Beauty Parlour – Chance On You Taken from the Fall In Love EP 02. Bobkat’65 – Four Times A Fool The new single out now on Get Hip Recordings. 03. Westkust – Swebeach Lead single from the forthcoming slef titled album. 04. Strange Passage – Shouldn’t Be Too Long Title track from … Continue reading Records I Like Podcast January 2019
This weeks pack of three features three new Shoegazing tracks with variations on a theme. Misty Coast – Backseat Warriors Norwegian outfit and the wonderfully named Misty Coast described themselves as Melodaze. Made up of two members of Megaphonic Thrift they have released a number of tracks since 2016 with Backseat Warriors being the latest. There are some lovely sounds here mixed with shimmering guitars and female ethereal vocals. Shoegaze to chill too. Facebook Rusted Satellites – Constellations (Demo) Constellations is the sound of a psychedelic and spiritual variant of shoegaze. The lyrics are poignant and vocals are sublime. It’s … Continue reading Something For The Weekend? Shoegaze Variations
Fast Life is taken from French band Off Models debut album Never Fallen In Love. I have and it’s with this song. It’s a case of addictive and enjoyable indiepop that is full of fun featuring sunny guitars with catchy lyrics/vocals. If you are not at least smiling after hearing this song then I suggest you take a trip to A&E whilst I check out the rest of the album. Never Fallen In Love is out in a range of formats across a range of labels. Best head to over to the band’s page for more info. Facebook Continue reading Off Models – Fast Life
Filipino band Penny and the Jets are two sisters who have previously released the Night Dances EP at the end of 2017. Natural Like This has been recorded for the soundtrack of a short film called Andrew. The song itself is a gentle paced indiepop effort with hushed vocals and harmonious guitars and, whilst not life changing, is worthy of being added to your indiepop listening pile. Get it from here. Continue reading Penny and the Jets – Natural Like This
I was wondering if we would hear from Makthaverskan after the recent Westkust single and a week later what do you know? I don’t think this band are ever going to fail to deliver and this is straight up, dyed-in-the-wool, indiepop. If you ever wondered what Bjork would sound like fronting The Primitives then give this one a go! Thoroughly wonderful. Demands, which will be backed by Onkel, will be out later this month on 7″ vinyl/digital via Luxury Records. Pre-order it here. Facebook Continue reading Makthaverskan – Demands
Barcelona’s Mirror Decay open this, their debut EP, with a pretty damn jaw dropping moment in the shape of Radio. It’s a beautiful track that reminds me of Talulah Gosh’s finest moments. The singers voice is just beautiful over the jangling guitars which at points sound like Blondie’s Dreaming. The backing vocals are pretty damn perfect too. I had better stop gushing now! The rest of the EP gives the band a chance to show that the opener was not a flash in the pan. It’s not. They even come close to matching it on Wrong and the slow and … Continue reading Mirror Decay – Mirror Decay EP
Bobkat’65 are a Spanish trio obsessed by all things American 1960’s Teen Beat/Garage and you would be hard not to believe it when presented with the evidence here (hear?)! Two slices of very cool and retro sounding girl band influenced music that should be on at least one of your mixtapes. It’s enough for me to start exploring their back catalogue pronto. A new album follows later this year but in the mean time these two tracks are out now on Get Hip Recordings Facebook Continue reading Bobkat’65 – Four Times a Fool / Pain Everynight
Split single from two of the current crop of Melbourne bands, both of whom have contributed three tracks each. However, at time of writing, only one track from each band is (was) available for streaming. The wonderful Parsnip have featured on these pages before and on Counterfeit they deliver another slice of girl band inspired goodness. The Shifters are a new name on me and they contrast greatly to their release mates. Only one thought crossed my mind whilst listening to Photo Op and that was is that The Fall I am hearing? Actually it was two thoughts and the … Continue reading Parsnip/The Shifters – Hip Blister
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