Ear To Ear is a small label records from Palembang, Indonesia. The labels new compilation Harness Your Pop rounds up tracks from the label’s releases over the past few years. Whilst I am familiar with some of the artists here … Continue reading Various Artists – Harness Your Pop : It’s Just a Bunch of Obscure Tracks
Indonesian label Forfun.Cookies have curated the newly released Trusted Riders It’s a compilation based on the concept of tunes to accompany a bicycle ride. The label describes it as an ” international underground pop music compilation” and alongside the cream … Continue reading Various Artists – Trusted Riders
Almost a year since the last volume was released the Disanorak curated Strawberry Punks reaches volume five. Gauntlet open proceedings with some tongue in cheek DIY pop on I Listen to The Pastels (More Than You) and The Sensitive follow … Continue reading Various Artists – Strawberry Punks Vol.5
Another sampler I have been listening to is the sampler from the Bratislava based Start-track.com. This is a label that specialises in cassette releases, being founded by the same person who was behind the sadly now dead Z-Tapes, Filip Zemčík. There is also a blog of the same name, and the label has released four excellent compilations covering artists featured on that site. Some of the names on their roster should be familiar to you such as Swiss Portrait, Beach Vacation and FUVK. Incidentally, the latter has just released a vital and lengthy retrospective on the label titled 2016-2023. New … Continue reading Various Artists – Sampler 2023
Continuing the series of posting albums and/or EPs as and when they are released (or usually a bit after!) as a follow up to the initial new tracks/singles posts posted on this blog. Sample the release via the You Tube … Continue reading Recommended Releases 19/03/2023
Five years after volume 2, we finally get a new Strawberry Punks compilation, which is a series that showcases Indonesian indiepop past and present. Opener Catch Up was originally found on the now defunct twee pop duo Sex Sux’s 2010 … Continue reading Various – Strawberry Punks Vol 3
As per usual a few labels have released compilations displaying their wares over the past couple of weeks. Here are a number of free ones that stand out. Fuckin’ Indie Since 2006 (Alcopop! Records 2022 Sampler) The Oxford indiepop label’s … Continue reading Seeing off 2022 – Compilations/Samplers
Lower Than Underground Vol. 1 is a compilation that will be released jointly via Greek label Old Bad Habits and the UK label Shambotic Recordings. The compilation features 22 tracks, of which are all cover versions. The former describe some of these originals as being from artists “who invented indie pop”. Hmmmm. Anyway the compilations provides bands such as The Frenchmen, Boyracer, Manhatten Love Suicides, The Jasmine Minks, Horowitz, Davey Woodward and Wimpy Milkshake covering the likes of The Primitives, Talulah Gosh, Beat Happening, Velvet Underground, Television Personalities, The Turtles and The Shirelles to name but a few. It comes … Continue reading Lower Than Underground Vol. 1
Two massive volumes (54 tracks each) of Christmas themed songs compiled by the Welsh music journalist Kevin McGrath with support from the Subjangle label. All monies raised from the sale of these digital compilations, and the limited edition 16 track … Continue reading Have Yourself A Merry Indie Christmas Volumes I & 2
Continuing the series of posting albums and/or EPs as and when they are released (or usually a bit after!) as a follow up to the initial new tracks/singles posts posted on this blog. Sample the release via the You Tube … Continue reading Recommended Releases 18/03/2022
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