There are just 200 vinyl copies of this standout from the Light Up Gold album. We already know the rush of fast and addictive punk-pop with teasing false endings that makes up the brilliant ‘Borrowed Time’. That deals with writer’s block but there’s no danger of that in reality if they can come with something as good as ‘Free Ice’ for the B-side. This is Pavement-y slacker pop with catchy riffs and clever lyrics, taking a sly dig at the West Coast: “’you know the dirt ain’t dirt in California’, she laughed, ‘it’s more like golden dust’”. [...]
***image1***Chin of Britain is a bad name for these good sounds. Part of Quickspace and Dark Captain, Chin’s ‘Nothing Changes’ is compelling UK psych-pop - catchy and melodic, with a fast-flowing stream of keyboard riffs that are propelled by a motorik beat. It’s the sort of hooky song you hear and instantly tune into. The longer ‘So Good To Be Here Again’ is dark and droning, almost post-rock in its intense layering, and full of foreboding (“the system is down…the fabric has failed”) but it’s all resolved in a melodic chorus. This is kosmiche pop [...]
This ninth and final release in Front & Follow’s ‘Collision/Detection’ series arrives courtesy of Roman Bezdyk’s Sone Institute alias, responsible for last year’s brilliant ‘A Model Life’ album. Purporting to be a soundtrack to a 1983 film ‘Deathbeat’; the EP covers John Carpenter pulsing synth throb on ‘Deathbeat 1 (main Title Sequence)’, tick-tock horror-step on ‘Unguarded Circle of Flesh (Decapitated Head Sequence)’, bit-crushed video game pixel-funk on ‘Flesh Dance (in a State of Perpetual Arousal)’ and more lascivious electro-frottage on ‘Deathbeat 2(Film End Title Sequence)’. The film apparently ends on a pan of a dance [...]
Ty Segall Famous Class have a release pending of Ty Segall and the Chad & The Meatbodies split 7". If that wasn't enough, Famous Class have announced Xiu Xiu and Lower Dens curated releases in the expanding Less Artists More Condos series. Pre-orders are up for LAMC 7 featuring Ty Segall and Chad & The Meatbodies, the special beer and bronze 7"s are sold out but regular black is still available on the Famous [...]
This is some very woozy and tropical-tinted psychedelia from Seabright . It's called 'For Icy' and it's jolly nice!
Oxford's ArtClassSink have recently supported rising psych heroes Temples, so that's an indication to a certain aspect of their sound, but they mix this with post-punk and shoegaze on 'Time To Go (before the rivalry)' Time To Go (before the rivalry) by ArtClassSink
Die! Die! Die! - achtung New Zealander! As Oblivious Oblivion kicks this album off it sounds a bit like Dunedin’s Die! Die! Die! are having trouble making up their minds whether they want to be early 90s shoegazers or go back a further 10 years to deliver metallic post-punk hectoring. Then, on the title track they go and pull off the unlikely trick of managing to meld both together successfully. So it threatens to be a little [...]
Prolific bedroom music-maker A La Punk has just put this orchestral guitar-pop track us as a free download. Grab 'Dead Sun' below. Dead Sun by A La Punk
Father Murphy - my children would bloody hate it... It’s a bit odd launching into an album and a bit of remixes of a record you’ve not yet heard. But there’s no real reason why it shouldn’t stand alone as a piece – or rather two. This series of remixes of Father Murphy’s (I’ve subsequently found out) foreboding, densely experimental Anyway Your Children Will Deny It is spread across a 12” and [...]
Peace Arrow is a new project from Mitch Myers of Florida band Hear Hums. 'Broken Bridge' is a psychedelic dreampop track that's probably what it sounds like to be inside the head of one of Animal Collective when they're sleeping. It's taken from forthcoming debut album '↑↓↑↓'. Broken Bridge by Peace Arrow
A host of Americana acts (and a few others) have produced a John Denver tribute album, titled rather straightforwardly 'The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver' 1 Leaving on a Jet Plane - My Morning Jacket 2 Take Me to Tomorrow - Dave Matthews 3 All of My Memories - Kathleen Edwards 4 Prisoners - J Mascis & Sharon Van Etten 5 Sunshine On My Shoulders - Train 6 Back Home Again - Old Crow Medicine Show 7 This Old Guitar - Lucinda Williams 8 Some Days Are [...]
It should be a lot warmer than it is right now. So put on the shoegazey guitar-pop of 'Sun Kissed Bliss' by Splashh and we can all pretend it's summer.
Was it my imagination or did I see dozens leave after Parquet Courts had played? Even though they were tonight’s support act, the clammy crush down the front suggested that many people were here to see whether all the blog-love showered on Parquet Courts was warranted. With vocals alternating between Andrew Savage and Austin Brown, presumably because of jetlag and Savage’s sore throat, they start their set with a unnamed, dark and brooding number that infiltrates itself in your cranium on the strength of its pulsebeat, then follow it with the perfect one-two of pyrotechnic pop noise in [...]
V.O. has created a brilliant minor-key stomping Low-esque slow burner with this release. It does a great deal with a minimum of elements: rolling drums, repetitive guitar chug, keyboard stabs, long drawled vocals and subtle washes of horn. These elements all lock together in a breezy but substantial song that demands repeated listens. ‘When You See Red’ is an underplayed but over-achieving single of great charm and warmth.
There are a mass of influences to untangle behind this hyper-energetic pop tune: ‘Collider’ has dramatic Arcade Fire moments, some Squeeze-like power-pop and a sunshine chorus lifted from the Beach Boys’ playbook. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts because they construct a catchy danceable tune. The b-side is snaked and rubbery-limbed pop-prog, quirky and melodic with the same pop-smarts as Field Music. However, if the songs are good but derivative, the video for ‘Collider’ is brilliant and imaginative, the product of 22 hours’ guerrilla recording across [...]
The Soft-Hearted Scientists are a strange bunch of acid-psych musicians, influenced by 70s sitcoms, outer space, eerie folklore and the wilder parts of Wales. They’re a blend of the Incredible String Band, Pink Floyd and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, and Fruits de Mer have done them proud with a double vinyl compilation sampling all their albums and throwing in a few rarities and two tracks from new album False Light to boot. The first album has the most haunting gems. Kicking off with a gentle, dreamy version of the theme to the [...]
Another great Swedish indie/pop band, The Fiery Pianos , are giving away a track from their recent album. Follow this link to get 'More Like A Tiger, Less Like A Dove'.
Here's some nice psych-pop for ya. It comes courtesy of London duo The OrangeTree EP and is called 'The Gift'.
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