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Even if he wasn’t from the same hometown as Mac DeMarco (Edmonton, Canada) and hadn’t appeared as the female lead in his recent ‘Makeout Videotape’ Video, chances are Continue Reading →
For an artist so clearly instilled with intricacy, it’s clear testament to Joys’ ability that he has managed to put out his first two E.P’s in the space of four months this year (and I’m only going on his decision to refer to them as E.P’s – collectively they hold 18 tracks). Continue Reading →
If there is an off-kilter cadence, spasmodic melody or mystery-shrouded vocal out there circulating, you can place some good money on its home being – or to become – the Continue Reading →
It would be patronising to frame the startling early material of Kiran Leonard in the context of his age; instead the impressive patience possessed by the 17 year-old, in Continue Reading →
Formed by two friends from Weymouth in 2010, Art is Hard have been slowly building a name for themselves by releasing artists and bands from a variety of genres often in Continue Reading →
Japanese duo Ikebana are musicians whose impact manifests itself through a minimalist approach to composition and a commitment to leaving the space around their bare bones song structures as just that. They allow vast chasms of voiceless sound in their recordings, so that their songs are almost, but not quite, lost in the expanse. Continue Reading →
While it doesn’t quite stretch a full continent, it’s hard to think of as many countries as musically interlinked in their tone and output than those five rooted in Scandinavia. Of course, this could simply be British arrogance at play on my part, not being able to pick Continue Reading →
So many groups get lost in emulating the swaying melodic brilliance of My Bloody Valentine that they often forget that they also played with all the force and volume of a Continue Reading →
Sexbeat may be synonymous with throwing raucous parties across the capital and putting out equally as raucous records (as found in the 7” grooves of Eagulls, Bad Sports and White Fence) but they too have always had an equally as spot-on ear for the softer, Continue Reading →
As we scurry forth into the summer months, the debut album by Mt. Judge – whose home is on the ever bourgeoning and eclectic Adult Teeth label – takes us dragging back into the outdoor-cold but indoor-warmth of winter. Fitting then, that his debut be called Time’s Continue Reading →
Since 2009’s The Limits of Control, director Jim Jarmusch’s focus seems to have been placed more on music than film. Releasing two collaborative albums with Jozef Van Wissem and now an EP with SQÜRL, who are themselves a new incarnation for a Continue Reading →
On the below ‘Subliminally’ Australian duo Conrad Standish and Tom Carlyon (of Devastations) have managed to form a unsettling sound that somehow manages to sound Continue Reading →
Artists like Matthew Mondanile and Spencer Clark have found themselves in a curious position recently – standard-bearers for a genre that may never have been a genre in the Continue Reading →
It’s to the credit of “Theo and Sasha S” that the praise currently being lavished upon their music has, for the most part, tended not to make reference to their famous surname. Continue Reading →
Well, it’s taken twenty years for it to happen but it finally did: a band named themselves Twin Peaks. For obvious reasons the name carries a lot of weight, possessiveness and Continue Reading →
Ever since I first heard ‘La Chanson de Douche’ (that’s ‘The Shower Song’ for us anglophones), I’ve been trying to pinpoint exactly what it is about this track that seems so captivating. Continue Reading →
Supposedly Great Thunder are a “clandestine musical project by brother/sister duo currently residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia” and are influenced by Steppenwolf and Continue Reading →
The Too Pure Singles Club has existed since 2008 after the original version of the label (which could boast such artists as PJ Harvey and Stereolab) merged with 4AD Continue Reading →
Though hypnagogic trans-Atlantic influences course through his body of work, the Leeds-based solo artist Ben Lewis manages to bypass easy pigeonholing with the likes of Youth Lagoon, Toro Y Moi et al under his Swimming Lessons moniker, by possessing a Continue Reading →
Stepping into any well-worn oeuvre can be tricky. When it’s a strand of music that’s been around for half a century, like garage rock has, you risk adding so little that it only helps condemn the genre into irrelevance Continue Reading →
Leon, Lewis, Jorge & Tom – this seems to the extent of the information we know surrounding new London outfit Great Ytene. Continue Reading →
It’s testament to Ty Segall that I’m more bored of hearing people talk about how much music he writes and releases than I am of actually listening to it. Continue Reading →
London duo Post Louis are made up of ex Cajun Dance Party member Robbie Stern and vocalist, Stephanie. In mid April the pair released their debut track ‘Oldsmobile’ – a slow burning, melancholic affair scattered with digital glitch-like beats Continue Reading →
Short of spending more time searching for them on the Internet than actually listening to them, I simply cannot find anything other than a solitary Soundcloud page for Lonely Giant. Continue Reading →
When forced to pinpoint the attraction to Street Gnar’s ‘Twenty two, Twenty’, deep-rooted reasons seem to be somewhat elusive. A flat-out likability and moth-to-the-flame factor seeps through your Continue Reading →
Following a cursory listen to ‘Fortress’, you’d be forgiven for dismissing Death Rattle as somewhat uninspired – yet another synthy twosome primed and ready to stand in as blog fodder for a week or so before quickly returning to anonymity Continue Reading →
When you stumble across a band like Fat White Family, you realise how conservative modern young guitar bands can really be these days. Continue Reading →
In many ways the below ‘Never Told You’ is a strange concoction of sounds and styles. Once you get past the opening gramophone-like hiss of a far away opera track playing, you Continue Reading →
The role of the ‘acoustic singer-songwriter’ type in 2013 has largely been reduced to a rank and formulaic cliché, or if it’s not, people close to that tag often get pigeonholed alongside the sludge anyway. Continue Reading →
The opening and almost ominous tone of thick bass fuzz that seeps from the below ‘Drop Outs’, hints at a voyage into the deepest bowls of psych hell Continue Reading →
Diamond Rugs is a side-project, consisting of members of Deer Tick, Black Lips, Dead Confederate, Los Lobos and Six Finger Satellite. It is – as you may very well expect – a Continue Reading →
Channelling Bowie’s croon, the new wave vibrancy of Orange Juice and bursts of Richard Lloyd’s guitar jangle, this four piece from Glasgow create exactly the kind of sleazy and effortless pop music you’d expect Continue Reading →
More traditionally known as a sub-genre of horror fiction, this particular incarnation we are taking about are less Shudder Pulps and more a three-piece band from London. Continue Reading →
Pittsburgh-based producer and songwriter Christopher Laufman has recently pulled off something of a rebirth. Having released his debut EP as Wise Blood, These Wings, in late 2011 Laufman fell inexplicably Continue Reading →
Some album titles are so perfectly thought-out and fitting that they do more in a few illuminating words as a statement than us writers can muster in tripping up over ourselves in hundreds trying to capture the essence of a piece of music. Continue Reading →
Another day, another dream-pop slash shoegaze group restlessly poised to indulge our “borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties” (and early nineties). Continue Reading →
‘Cameneon,’ by Tremoro Tarantura, is a track that delights in the shaking of the senses. The quiet lull of the intro is used as bait by these predatory Norwegian vipers, Continue Reading →
Blood Sport are a self-proclaimed ‘aggro-beat’ threesome, who – as the title may suggest – play a paradoxical fusion Continue Reading →
The juxtaposition of a punk band whose lyrics reflect class marginalisation, whilst formed through higher education Continue Reading →
The teenage dance-thrash of Test Icicles seems a long forgotten memory in 2013, presuming you are even Continue Reading →
“The water’s rising, eclipsing ocean reaching that diamond crown that you like to wear.” This enigmatic phrase Continue Reading →
The pairing of the naïver than thou singer-songwriter Kimya Dawson with MC Aesop Rock is as curiously intriguing as it is utterly baffling. On paper, it’s impossible to gauge whether these two artists will come together in harmony or discord. Continue Reading →
Kult Country are engaged in a deep-rooted human philosophy, one that they simultaneously try to Continue Reading →
“We’re a little psych-pop band stuck in Copenhagen. We like Gene Clark and Prince Charles” reads the Continue Reading →
If, in 1994, Nas was taking rappers to a new plateau through rap slow, then it might be argued that Young Fathers’ Continue Reading →
While Margaret Chardiet has been involved in the underground world of experimental music Continue Reading →
Jerusalem In My Heart sits uneasily at the confluence of cultures. A loose collective of musicians and visual artists Continue Reading →
Something is the new Project of Oliver Catt, the man who once was Fantasy Rainbow. Ditching that moniker and Continue Reading →