Matinee Recordings are having a prolific November on the singles front. Frost by Spanish band The Royal Landscaping Society is the fourth released by the label this month and what do you know it’s another cracker. Well, I think it’s a Christmas track judging by the title and cover so that is appropriate! The song itself is a nice piece of electronica based indiepop. The … Continue reading The Royal Landscaping Society – Frost
2020 has been a dump of a year all round but the return of Danish band Northern Portrait brings a smile to my face. The band will be releasing their first material since 2013’s Pretty Decent Swimmers EP in the shape of new album The Swiss Army. It has been preceded by the lead single At Attention and it’s like they have never been away. … Continue reading Northern Portrait – At Attention
Swedish band My Darling You! will be releasing their second single for Matinee Recordings on November 18th 2020. Titled We Break Up On Friday it’s the follow up to last year’s Thanks For Letting Me Stay single. It’s a fast paced track driven by keyboards and frantic vocals and it’s all over in the blink of an eye (or should be that be a flick … Continue reading My Darling YOU! – We Break Up On Friday
Today saw the release of the first Strawberry Whiplash! material for five years. Press 4 For Love is a jangling 1960’s inspired indie-pop effort and is backed with A Rainy Day In Glasgow. That track was originally left over from the sessions for the band’s 2015 album Hits In The Car. An album is due to follow next year. Press 4 For Love is out … Continue reading Strawberry Whiplash – Press 4 For Love
There are labels and there are labels. Matinee Recordings has been an odds-on favourite for many an indiepop fan. In fact, Matinee was the subject of the first-ever post on this blog back in 2012! The label has been a bit quiet of late and that’s because they were in the process of launching a new website which is now up and running. And if … Continue reading Matinee Recordings Website Relaunch
Spanish indiepop veterans Royal Landscaping Society are back with a new single and the second for their new label, Matinee Recordings. Clean is a sparkling synthpop/indiepop hybrid and is backed with band’s cover of The Softies I Love You More. Clean is being released digitally via Matinee Recordings later this week. An album, titled Means of Production, follows later this summer. Facebook Continue reading Royal Landscaping Society – Clean
Red Sleeping Beauty lift Tonight as a single (are there any more tracks left on Stockholm?) and it’s another example of a pleasing pop track with joint vocals and synths that echo throughout. Mind you second track Someone Somewhere should have been the single. It’s melodies are as catchy as a dose of the catchiest flu and the vocals continue to delight as the song … Continue reading Red Sleeping Beauty – Tonight EP
The Popguns have built upon the two tracks they submitted to WIAIWYA for their recent The Moon And Back – One Small Step For Global Pop compilation celebrating the 50th anniversary of the The Apollo 11 Moon landings (or did they eh, eh?) for this new EP – or Space Operetta as the band say. Both of the aforementioned contributed tracks are here and one, … Continue reading The Popguns – Carrying The Fire EP
Just as it says on the front of the tin this weeks pack of three features three releases from Matinee Recordings. My darling YOU! – Thanks For Letting Me Stay Thanks For Letting Me Stay is a track that appeared on the Sorry EP originally released on Luxury Records back in 2011. It’s also now the lead single for a new compilation of this Swedish … Continue reading Something For The Weekend? Three from Matinee Recordings
California is the latest single to be lifted from the current Stockholm long player and appears in three forms. The single itself starts in a sedate, folkish mood before synth pop beats kick in drawing comparisons to The Pet Shop Boys. Norwegian singer/songwriter Dylan Mondegreen then supplies this take on the longing and yearning Ikkje Gråt for Me, California. The final version is a demo … Continue reading Red Sleeping Beauty – California
