Taken from “All Those Freaks”, the second full length album released on Meritorio & Discotif Records on April 12th 2019. Jangly guitar rock and roll springing from the suburbs of North London. Chief songwriter James Wing a long with his little brother Tom and a hard grafted rhythm section in Luke Evans and Brendan Monahan…
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THE BOYS WITH THE PERPETUAL NERVOUSNESS – Dead Calm (Pretty Olivia, 2019) Non bastasse la recente delizia realizzata con la sua band El Palacio de Linares (“Largos Agotadores” è una delle più fresche novità pop della stagione), per Gonzalo Marcos giunge immediata la doppietta, questa volta sotto diversa forma e accanto a un diverso sodale,…
[video of the week] Fontaines D.C. – Roy’s Tune
Over the last year, Fontaines D.C. have released five critically acclaimed singles, all of which garnered considerable support both from radio, with the band A-listed at BBC Radio 6 Music for their last single ‘Big’, and from a vast range of international press, with the band featuring in a number of end of year lists…
[video of the week] The BV’s – Charlie, I Don’t Know Who You Are!
“Charlie, I Don’t Know Who You Are!” is the first single and the opening track of “Cartography”, the second album by The BV’s, out on Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten on 14th March 2019. The BV’s are an indie pop/shoegaze band from Falmouth/Augsburg. They’ve released their debut album “Speaking From A Distance” in 2017, alongside a bunch…
I WAS A KING – Slow Century (Coastal Town, 2019)* Certo che una band che, giusto dieci anni fa, aveva intitolato “Norman Bleik” un singolo poi compreso nel proprio secondo album omonimo, non solo non aveva difficoltà a palesare un’ascendenza espressiva ma anche aveva scritto nel destino che un giorno avrebbe incrociato il proprio percorso…
[streaming] Star Tropics – The Other Side Of Midnight
Avoiding the winter in a Logan Square basement, Chicago’s Star Tropics began as original members Scott (lead guitar) and Loren (bass, vocals) found themselves huddled around a drum machine. Searching for the sound that would eventually define the band, Star Tropics went on to become five musicians determined to write carefree, primary-colored pop songs. Blending…
BUSINESS OF DREAMS – Ripe For Anarchy (Slumberland, 2019) Non è una novità per Corey Cunningham la fascinazione per il post-punk e il guitar-pop a cavallo tra anni Ottanta e Novanta, avendo trascorso oltre una decina d’anni come chitarrista dei Magic Bullets. In Business Of Dreams, il musicista californiano ha tuttavia trovato una dimensione più…
[video of the week] Teenage Fanclub – Everything Is Falling Apart
[youutbe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AffiHHlAbWQ%5D Teenage Fanclub has released a new single, “Everything Is Falling Apart.” It’s the longtime Scottish indie band’s first new track since the departure of co-founder Gerard Love last year, following a “sadly unresolvable difference of opinion” concerning the group’s touring schedule. The lyrics on “Everything Is Falling Apart” seem to speak to a…
[streaming] The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness – Close The Doors
This song is part of “Dead Calm”, debut LP by The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness. Officially out on the 1st of March 2019 on Pretty Olivia Records. TBWTPN are Andrew Taylor (Dropkick) and Gonzalo Marcos (El Palacio de Linares). https://www.facebook.com/theboyswiththeperpetualnervousness/
[video of the week] El Palacio de Linares – El Estilo
El Palacio de Linares has a new album, its second LP “Largos Agotadores” that will be released on February 1st at Pretty Olivia Records. They have already released a couple of songs (“Ciervo y Erizo” and “Este Rato (Contigo)”) and now they go with the first clip, for “El Estilo”. https://elpalaciodelinares.com/
[streaming] The Maureens – She’s A Dreamer
Taken from Something In The Air, releases February 2, 2019 via Meritorio Records. A shared love for melodic and uplifting guitar-driven pop music brought the members of The Maureens together. The Maureens debuted in 2013 with a selftitled album that contained a distinct mixture of sixties nostalgia and nineties era indiepop. Sounds from The Beach…
[streaming] Hidden Land – Remind Me
Taken from Hidden Land’s debut album “Perspectives”, out January 2019 via Volkoren. Hidden Land is a California/Stockholm band formed in a Los Angeles garage in 2016 after years talking about collaborating on a musical project. “What is possibly the most striking thing about Hidden Land’s music is the conversation it achieves. Myles O’Mainnian from California…
THE WHIP HAND – Sometimes, We Are (Mia Cameretta / Lady Sometimes, 2018) Sotto i muri di suono e distorsioni, cova spesso una vena pop trasognata e sottilmente malinconia. A non smentire simile assunto, provvede da ultimo il quartetto pugliese The Whip Hand, che nel proprio terzo album “Sometimes, We Are” disvela compiutamente un’indole mai…
WISHED BONE – Cellar Belly (Human Noise, 2018) Ben prima della scelta estetica, è l’immediatezza la dimensione espressiva dei tanti giovani artisti che trovano quale veicolo delle proprie canzoni la bassa fedeltà casalinga e l’ormai irrinunciabile formato cassetta. Non a caso, i dieci agili brani di “Cellar Belly” sono il frutto di un’unica session di…
[streaming] Tears Run Rings – Helios Heliadae
Tears Run Rings return with a new four-track release, “Somewhere EP,” out October 19th on limited clear 10″ vinyl and digital formats through a global label partnership of Shelflife and Deep Space Recordings. The band released their third album, “In Surges,” in 2016. The four songs on this new EP were written when the band…
[streaming] The Seams – Lemonade
“Lemonade” is the opening track of “Another Side Of The Seams” released via Hand Drawn Dracula and on cd via Meritorio Records October 26th 2018. The Seams blend influences of potent, straight-forward guitar bands from the 60’s – 90’s. With their unabashed love of structure and melody, their collective strengths shine throughthe songs they create….
[streaming] Dark Globes – It’s All Alright
“It’s All Alright” is the title track of the new Ep by Dark Globes, out October 26th via Half Machine Records. Tom Burgess: Guitar/Vocals Leighton Jennings: Guitar/Vocals/Drums/Synth Andrew Moore: Bass Richard Onslow: Guitars/Synth Brendan O’Hare: Drums/Guitar/Vocals Dark Globes’ is reassuringly downbeat, ego-free pop music, burying fragile songs under a fuzzy blanket of reverb, lit by…
WILD NOTHING – Indigo (Captured Tracks, 2018) A Jack Tatum va se non altro riconosciuto di essere stato tra i precursori dell’ormai soverchiante mole di proposte artigianali a base di chitarre, tastiere e moderata nostalgia pop-wave. Benché dai tempi del folgorante debutto “Gemini” (2010), i suoi Wild Nothing si siano allontanati di molto dal garage di…
[streaming] Monnone Alone – Cut Knuckle
“Cut Knuckle” is the latest single by Monnone Alone, out now via Lost And Lonesome. Although the name may suggest otherwise, Monnone Alone are a bona fide pop group based around the sagacious songwriting of Mark Monnone (ex-Lucksmiths) and featuring members of A-grade pop tinkerers Architecture in Helsinki, Mid-State Orange and Aleks & the Ramps….
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