Label Spotlight: Too Pure Singles Club
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 →
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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 →
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 →
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 →
For years Rebecca Foon has dealt in the achingly beautiful, the breathtakingly sweeping, the gracefully heart-wrenching Continue Reading →
Over the last two years, New Zealand imprint Cooper Cult has found a unique spot for itself in the music industry Continue Reading →
It’s been a while since we last heard anything from lo-fi pop stalwarts The Beets. The New York band released three Continue Reading →
/please/ is the blissfully nocturnal project from eighteen-year-old Ellen Davies. Marrying ghostly harmonies and cloudy Continue Reading →
You could easily be forgiven for thinking this was a Kurt Vile and Real Estate collaboration, so rooted in both the Continue Reading →
Although we might usually be tempted to deny it, a prime motivation for any music journalist is the desire Continue Reading →
Stemming from Columbus, Ohio Way Yes are set to self-release their debut LP Tog Pebbles, this May. Go to their Continue Reading →
Soaking up the West Coast sunshine and vibes all the way from Seattle, La Luz are a surf-tinged, doo-wop pop Continue Reading →
Since their inception in early 2012, West Felton two-piece Furrow have made an admirably concerted Continue Reading →
Sam Ricketts and Tom Clarke are the duo that makes up Cloud Boat. Previous single ‘Lions on The Beach’ released Continue Reading →
Celestial Shore have a rich propensity for paying little to no regard to the convention of musical structures Continue Reading →
In the wake of the recent Iceage hysteria surrounding their supposed fascist tendencies/beliefs Continue Reading →
Vondelpark have quietly been doing the rounds since 2010, releasing one 12” ‘Sauna’ and one E.P, NYC Stuff Continue Reading →
The excitement surrounding Florida’s Merchandise has been bubbling to the point of fast reaching the boil Continue Reading →
“There are 12 notes in a scale and we intend to use most of them.” Says Echo & The Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant Continue Reading →
A singer prone to dressing as a psychedelic train driver, a bassist who moves like a character from a silent Continue Reading →
A sprawling hip hop collective of around 20 members, many of whom are still in their teens, blow up out of Continue Reading →