LA band The Gloss offer a west-coast update of the kind of guitar sounds The Strokes are known to have made, especially on their early demos. First single 'Words' has tidied this up, but only by a little bit. Words by The Gloss
This trio may have a French name but they're from Cork in Ireland. Sans Chateaux use loas of different, mainly acoustic instruments and lots of overlaid voices to make a quite magical sound. Their self-titled EP is splendid. Here's 'Holy Venus'. Sans Chateaux by Sans Chateaux
Melbourne's busy for good tunes at the mo. This is a free track from Axolotl . It's called 'Avalanche' and is a fine piece of noisy dreampop/alt-pop.
Gil De Ray grew up on the same street as Bobby Gillespie, something which you can hear in the vocals to this track 'Catholic Boy'. The rest of his new album 'Infect The Culture' doesn't sound much like Primal Scream at all though and is a mighty DIY racket. Infect The Culture by Gil De Ray
We're reliably told that the third album from Glasgow alt-rock group Sparrow & The Workshop "showcases a darker sound". Calling an album 'Murderopolis' and having an opening duo of songs named 'Valley Of Death' and 'Darkness' would certainly add weight to that theory, but in truth there's always been a shadowy and sometimes unsettling element to their music. Rather than being darker, 'Muderopolis' actually feels, if anything, ever so slightly more refined; a little like a car at the start of a new F1 season; a few extra tweaks to help it become more streamlined and efficient. Sparrow [...]
2013 (August 31st for the pedants among us) is the 20th anniversary of the release of Last Splash, and to mark it, 4AD have released a bumper bundle of material in a 3CD set in a typical Vaughn Oliver sleeve. The album itself is one of the best things about the 90s, a decade that seems to be growing in influence on young bands. There’s still a Pixies hangover to some of the tracks, and there are some noisy fillers (‘Roi’, ‘Flipside’) but otherwise the quality of the music is only matched by the [...]
Londoner’s Honeyslide follow up their cassette debut with a double 10” single that includes charming jangly indiepop (‘Sugar Routine’), experimental noodling (‘Untitled #240’) and two tracks of powerfully sludgy shoegaze. ‘Deep Architecture’ starts the more conventionally of the two, feedback and reverb in tortuous balance with a sugarsmacked melody, until it disintegrates into fractured guitar screeching. ‘Drippin’ is the standout though, a lucid daydream of narcotised dreampop that’s partly beholden to the Jesus and Mary Chain and partly to 90s slowcore bands like Codeine. The band drag the melody, still proudly waving as waves of brute reverb [...]
Paris is Burning is a regular French themed night at The Lexington, London, this time featuring the sounds of On/Air, Mensch, and Jacques Caramac and The Sweet Generation. First up were On/Air, who played keyboard-led melodic indie-rock, and sounded like a louder version of Coldplay circa ‘Parachutes’. Strong tunes, winding guitar lines and soaring vocals combined in a performance that marked this band out as one to watch. Mensch followed with a contrasting set of dark and jagged post-punk laced with some rolling motorik rhythms. From a minimal set up of bass, [...]
Two years ago we printed a bad review of Thee Spivs’ second album [here] , filled with such incandescent anger you suspected that any band capable of generating that much fury in a reviewer must be doing something right. Their third album, running to just 30 minutes, suggests that the trio are doing something right, if only in channelling and combining the art-punk of Wire, the stripped down rock’n’roll of Billy Childish and the observational acuity of Ray Davies. It’s flawed in places, not least the mawkish Frank Turner-isms of ‘Mozart’s Locked [...]
Swedish artist Jenny Gabrielsson Mare mixes modern pop, lounge music and classic sounds that result in a more sedate and spooky version of Anna Calvi. Here's new single 'The Black Lodge'.
The Flaming Lips have returned with an album in stark contrast to their output of the previous decade. Following albums containing songs of fortitude and the importance of hope in the face of adversity, like ‘Waiting for a Superman’ and ‘Do You Realize?’ this new release, ‘The Terror’ has an overriding feeling of stifling hopelessness and weary despair. Compared to the bright airiness and space of ‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots’ and ‘At War with the Mystics’, this sees a return to the sharp discordance and harsh textures of ‘Embryonic’, methods employed here to less whimsical [...]
Rough Trade have announced the track listing for the compilation album that they have put together to celebrate this year's End of the Road. A two disc effort it gathers tracks by many of the bands performing this year. Full Tracklist: CD1 1. The Leisure Society - Another Sunday Psalm 2. Jens Lekman - Waiting for Kirsten 3. Belle & Sebastian - Women's Realm 4. Angel Olsen - The Waiting 5. Damien Jurado - Working Titles 6. Sharon Jones & The [...]
This track from Philadelphia alt-rock band Hop Along is the latest installment of Weathervane Music's 'Shaking Through' series and it's called 'Sister Cities'. Sister Cities by Hop Along
'Voodoo Walk' is taken from the excellent new album, 'Cracking The Eyes', by Danish duo Oracle O. . You can stream the lot from the link below.
Here's a garage-pop hymn to prescription medication from US duo Crushed Out , it's called 'Push Down & Twist'
The EPs collected here are from an enormously entertaining series of releases from Front & Follow records; the artists involved were invited to make whatever music they pleased as long as they in some way used a collective pool of sound sources made available to all of them. The results are, in no particular order: frightening, amusing, exciting, and beautiful. When considered as a whole, given the number of artists and groups taking part, ‘Collision/Detection’ is an album of unlikely consistency of quality. Every contribution is worthy of its place and exists as a [...]
Internet Forever have released another single from their acclaimed debut album. You can download 'White Light Collision' for free via their website .
This is a great psych/garage/pop tune by London duo Love L.U.V. . It's called 'In My Daydreams'. In My Daydreams by Love L.U.V.
Mexico's Martin Thulin is an experimental producer and songwriter who's also the vocalist in Los Fancy-Free. 'Guns Down' is taken from his latest solo album 'I'd Rather Be Transparent Than A Shadow In The Dark' and you can download it free by heading here .
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