September Girls, who have signed to Fortuna Pop!, will be releasing their debut album Cursing The Sea on January 6th 2014. Heartbeats is the first single lifted from it and it sounds a bit like The Breeders to me. And that is never a bad thing! You can order the 7″ and pre-order the album from Fortuna Pop! or buy the single plus goodies from the band themselves. Homepage Facebook Bandcamp Continue reading September Girls – Heartbeats
Joanna Gruesome have released their debut album full of fuzzy and noisy pop songs on both sides of the pond. Titled Weird Sister It’s out on Fortuna Pop (UK/Europe) and Slumberland Records (States) Facebook Continue reading Joanna Gruesome – Weird Sister
This week has seen the first release on Fortuna Pop from the ever wonderful Flowers. The band have signed to Kanine Records stateside so hopefully a US release will follow for fans across the pond. Until then buy it here. You can also get it digitally from the likes of Rough Trade. Stuck is the third song from the single and just features singer Rachel singing alone somewhat ethereally with just a one string bass for company. Facebook Continue reading Flowers – Until You’re Dead EP
For one reason or another I didn’t listen to that much music (well recent stuff anyway) in 2012 and one band I have been meaning to catch up on was Edinburgh’s The Spook School. Glad I did as I think their tunes are pretty good taking the indiepop template and making it so much better. They had three releases so far and I prefer the two earlier ones simply for the fact that they contain the bands two best tracks – well to these ears anyway – and to be honest I prefer the female vocals when compared to the … Continue reading The Spook School
I came across these demos by the band Flowers whilst wasting sometime on Bandcamp and they are certainly worth the free download. I don’t know anything about the band although they state on their homepage/facebook page that they are signed to Fortuna Pop. There is also a release on Cloudberry Records coming up and that may be my first purchase from that label for a while. Demos #1 Demos #2 MP3 – Flowers – When You Lie (from the Cloudberry EP) The band play The George on January 26th playing with the likes of Colour Me Wednesday, T-Shirt Weather and … Continue reading Flowers
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