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 09/05/2022
Malmö’s Hater will be releasing their new album Sincere on April 6th 2022 via London’s Fire Records. The album’s opening track Something has just been released as a single/taster. It’s a track that portrays the darker and heavier side of … Continue reading Hater – Something
After just over a year away Malmö’s Hater return with their new single Bad Luck. Vocalist Caroline explains that “The song is about some kind of social awkwardness between myself and new faces. Feeling left out due to not knowing … Continue reading Hater – Bad Luck
Some Gorgeous Accident – Heaven Sent Heaven Sent certainly isn’t the sound of a band heading towards it’s final destination as their Facebook page indicates but it looks like it’s the end of the road for a band who have been around in one guise or another since 2006/07. These songs are a collection of songs that were “lying about”. This Day and the title track are dreamy and blissful. Available via Melotron Recordings. Facebook Tape Waves – Distant Light More laid back dreamy pop goodness from Tape Waves and the follow up to 2016’s Here To Fade. Whilst it … Continue reading August Round Up #3
Excellent guitar pop from Sweden that draws it’s inspirations from dreampop, indiepop, C86 and to a lesser extent post-punk. The songs are wonderful and the vocals of Caroline Landahl are simultaneously melancholic and gorgeous. Essential listening. It’s out via Fire Records and is available on 12″ vinyl, CD and digital formats. Get it from here. Facebook Continue reading Hater – Red Blinders
The first album in almost 20 years from Kiwi legends The Chills is one of the reasons I have not posted for a while (No No No by Beirut and Songs To Play by Robert Forster being the others). Warm Waveform is one of the tracks taken from Silver Bullets and is bang on the money. Or something like that. Silver Bullets is out now on Fire Records. Facebook Homepage Continue reading The Chills – Warm Waveform
Fire Records will be re-reissuing the Spacemen 3 discography on 180g vinyl. The first part of this exercise sees the bands’ first three albums re-released next Monday with the original track listings – no extra tracks here. These are, with the year of original release in brackets Sound Of Confusion (1986), The Perfect Prescription (1987) and the live album Performance (1988). Continue reading Spacemen 3 Reissues
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