Kicking the week off with another sampler. Quite a few pretty decent power pop tunes have caught my ear lately and the mix features a number of these supplemented by indiepop & dreampop. As ever enjoy! Here is the Playlist: … Continue reading The New Twang Sampler
I am working by the sea this week in a very cold Swanage. Luckily I am next door to a cider house. Plus who can begrudge the sound of crashing waves. Talking of sounds here is a another sampler for … Continue reading The By The Sea Sampler
The first sampler playlist of the year rounds up some end of 2021 releases, forthcoming albums and compilations along with the odd new single – or two! Here is the Playlist: or listen on YouTube And here are the individual … Continue reading The First Sampler of 2022
Another ten tracks to start the week off. Enjoy! Here is the Playlist: or listen on YouTube And here are the individual tracks/info: Bridge Dog – Gone South The second single from Sydney’s Bridge Dog in as many months. Very … Continue reading The Monday Sampler!
Keep On Mind is taken from the new single Melissa/Keep On Mind from the Japanese shoegaze band Stomp Talk Modstone with Eriko (Plant Cell, Baby Ever Rain) on vocals. It has that vintage, classic shoegaze sound with the ethereal female … Continue reading Stomp Talk Modstone – Keep On Mind
So August was a strange month for me for various reasons but normal service will now be resumed – touch wood. Let’s catch up with some tracks that were released over the last few weeks. Here is the Playlist: or … Continue reading Pinch Punch, First Of The Month
The new single from Japan’s Stomp Talk Modnstone sounds like it’s straight from a time capsule containing all the ingredients that made shoegaze so exciting the first time around. Fast-paced fuzzy guitars coupled with some wonderful joint vocals with the … Continue reading Stomp Talk Modstone – Supercar
As the sun burns down in London with Euro 2020 in town (a speedy recovery Mr Eriksen) here is another sampler playlist consisting of indie-pop and post-punk. Here is the Playlist: or listen on YouTube And here are the individual … Continue reading The Sweltering Sunday Sampler
Tonight Matthew we are going to be My Bloody Valentine said Stomp Talk Modstone never but, somewhere in an alternative reality, I am pretty sure it must have happened based on the evidence provided via their new single My Birth. Given the band has slowly established their own identity over the course of their excellent singles to date I am not sure there is any need to produce a track that is like for like MBV. Yes, it’s a great track but, at the end of the day, there is nothing new here and not just for me either I … Continue reading Stomp Talk Modstone – My Birth
The latest single from the Japanese band Stomp Talk Modstone sees them abandoning their familiar noisy fuzz-laden shoegaze in favour of a gentle rock and roll ballad. Goodbye, False Friend could easily be on the soundtrack of one of that … Continue reading Stomp Talk Modstone – Goodbye, False Friend
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