When I covered the debut single Forever With You from the Indonesian band The Pale Love Unseen back in October I mentioned how much it sounded like an early The Pains of Being Pure At Heart. The track now appears … Continue reading The Pale Love Unseen – Fate
Five tracks to kickstart the week….. The Lousy Pop Group – Simple Pleasures It’s so hard not to mention Sarah Records when a new The Lousy Pop Group song shows up, as the music of these Indonesian retro indiepoppers sounds … Continue reading A Monday Bunch of Five
The Lousy Pop Group’s record label, Shiny Happy Records, suggest the band’s new EP would be “for the fans of Brighter, Harper Lee, Nixon, The Field Mice, etc”. They are not kidding. Eko Sutrisno, the man behind the monikor, has … Continue reading Lousy Pop Group – Last Breath
Three years ago now, the Indonesian indiepop band The Lousy Pop Group released their excellent single Days. It was to be followed by a 7″ EP titled Time Flies When You’re Having Fun on the German based, or is it … Continue reading The Lousy Pop Group – Time Flies When You’re Having Fun
Some of you may have noticed the move away from music reviewing on these pages to that of music discovery/recommendations alongside regular mixes and samplers. The reasons for this are twofold. One is that I listen to more music than … Continue reading Recommended Releases 27/11/2021
Swansea Sound, who feature members from Pooh Sticks, Catenary Wires and Talulah Gosh, release their debut album Live at The Rum Puncheon on November 19th 2021. The album contains 12 tracks including the now hard to find singles I Sold … Continue reading Puncheon Drunk
This weeks pack of three collates three brand new singles. H! – Stay At Home It’s been nearly a year since we heard from Jakarta based H! and I am not sure if it is still just the one individual, … Continue reading Something For The Weekend? Three New Singles
I remember Flannel from their releases on Cloudberry Records and the short-lived German label Edition 59. They have released records since then but they dropped off my radar years ago and when this released on Shiny Happy Records dropped through … Continue reading Flannel – Preface
Indonesian label Shiny Happy Records have just released a mammoth 78 track compilation entitled Our Secret World: Quarantine Session 2020. Due to the size I am not even going to attempt to review it so the label’s press release follows. … Continue reading Our Secret World: Quarantine Session 2020
Indonesian artist A Zu La follows up August’s self-titled EP with new single Go Out. The Radio Dept. influences are still there both musically and vocally but that isn’t a bad thing. I like the home-recorded sound on this one … Continue reading A Zu La – Go Out
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