A Tuesday trio! Darksoft – Only Time Will Tell Only Time Will Tell is taken from the current album Beigeification by Portland’s Darksoft. Some have likened them to The House of Love, others to New Order. It’s nice and jangly … Continue reading Da Da Da
Delayed by Bandcamp Friday this weeks pack of three covers three new singles with some fine video accompaniment. Pastel Coast – Rendezvous As summer starts to fade into autumn we need an upbeat indie tune with whistles aplenty. Step up … Continue reading Something For The Weekend? Three New Singles
Madrid’s Cariño released two excellent indiepop tracks between March and May this year which I failed to mention despite playing them both to death. The three piece have now picked up by Elefant who will be releasing a 10” Mini-LP under their New Adventures In Pop banner later this year. The aforementioned two tracks will be included on this 10″ but before then Elefant has issued them as a digital single complete with a video for Canción De Pop De Amor. It’s synth driven indiepop at it’s finest harking back to days gone by. You can buy the digital single … Continue reading Cariño – Pop Para La Bajona
I cannot say I was too taken with last year’s BMX Bandits Forever album but the quirky Way Of The Wolf is a clever, catchy, fun and addictive track. The band’s label Elefant is partial to remixes and most sadly have not worked (see The Primitives for starters) but this surely single is ripe for the picking thanks to it’s beat. It’s backed with two unreleased tracks including You Justify My Life which BMX frontman Duglas T Stewart originally wrote with David Scott of The Pearlfishers and was released on their 1999 album The Young Picnickers. It’s available digitally from … Continue reading BMX Bandits – Way Of The Wolf (With Dr Cosmo’s Tape Lab)
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