“Degradation” is the opening track from “More Light!!”, out June 25th 2021 via Oof Records & Dear Life Records. When he isn’t drumming in Friendship, writing songs with Hour, co-running the prolific indie label Dear Life Records or working as a bread baker, Maine-raised, Philadelphia-based multi-instrumentalist Michael Cormier is ruminating on the miniscule moments that…
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[streaming] Sin Fang, Sóley & Örvar Smárason – Shame
New track from the collaborative project of Sin Fang, Sóley and Örvar Smárason of múm and FM Belfast. It combines the individual strengths of three acclaimed musicians, blends melody drenched folk sensibilities with splashy pop beats. After releasing a new collaboration track at the end of each month in the year 2017, collected in the…
[streaming] The Catenary Wires – Mirroball
New single from The Catenary Wires, out April 16th 2021 via Skep Wax Records and Shelflife Records. “Mirrorball” takes two lonely single people, and takes them for a night out in an 80s disco. Surrounded by divorcees and middle-aged drunks, will they be too shy to talk, or will they find some love action? Is this going…
[streaming] Rick Treffers – Relief
Track from the forthcoming album “Looking For A Place To Stay” (due May 6th 2021). Rick Treffers (1967) is a Dutch songwriter, singer, musician and producer. Het has been releasing albums since 1995 as Mist, El Turista Optimista, Miss Universe, Girlfriend Misery and Rick Treffers. In 2018 he published his first novel (in Dutch) Ik wou…
[video of the week] Lia Pamina e Os Peregrinos – Follas Novas
The combination of Lia Pamina’s delicious voice and Charlie Mysterio’s and Roger Arias’ (Os Peregrinos) elegance and inspiration is back, to give us this small, exquisite gem. A single inspired by the work of the Galician poet and novelist Rosalía de Castro, where folk sounds, Brazilian music, and infinitely exquisite arrangements come together. “Follas Novas”…
[streaming] Wyndow – Take My Picture
Wyndow is a collaboration between Laura J Martin and Lavinia Blackwall (Trembling Bells). A set of musical postcards sent across the wires from Liverpool to Clydebank and once described by a four year old boy as a complete nightmare. Voices intertwine on a bed of homebrewed minimalism with words detailing the quiet moments. “Take My…
[streaming] Jane Weaver – Heartlow
“Heartlow” is the opening track of “Flow”, out March 5th 2021 via Fire Records. “Flock” is the record that Jane Weaver always wanted to make, the most genuine version of herself, complete with unpretentious Day-Glo pop sensibilities, wit, kindness, humour and glamour. A consciously positive vision for negative times, a brooding and ethereal creation. The…
PLANTMAN – Days Of The Rocks (Self Released, 2020) Seguendo i lenti tempi della natura e quelli della sua ispirazione creativa, Matthew Randall torna per la quarta volta a confezionare una raccolta di canzoni dai contorni gentili e dalle sfumature dolcemente malinconiche. Lo fa quasi a sorpresa, senza nessuna anticipazione o promozione, nonostante siano trascorsi…
[streaming] Films On Song – I’m Starting To See You In A New Light
Taken from the “False Starts” EP, out now digitally (free/name your price) via Bandcamp. Films on Song are a band from Charlottesville, Virginia, making “lovely, catchy, bright, and dark” popsongs, with a late 80’s new wave / post-punk sound. After a bunch of singles, they’re released their first two EP’s in 2020: “Too True” and…
[streaming] Tim Cohen – Rage On
Taken from Tim Cohen’s sixth solo album “You Are Still Here”, out March 10th 2021 via Bobo Integral. When people muse on the quirky literate songwriter traditions of San Francisco, certain names come to mind. Garcia/ Hunter, Country Joe, Skip Spence, Jonathan Richman; it’s time to add Tim Cohen to the roll call. For more…
[streaming] Real Numbers – Brighter Then
Taken from “Brighter Then”, out January 22nd 2021 via Slumberland and Meritorio Records. Following on from 2016’s “Wordless Wonder” LP and 2017’s “Frank Infatuation” single, Minneapolis’ Real Numbers are back with a brand new EP entitled “Brighter Then.” In the interim the combo has expanded to a 5-piece, adding Sophie Durbin on keyboards. “Brighter Then”…
[video of the week] Keiron Phelan & Peace Signs – Hobby Jingo
Taken from the album “Hobby Jingo”, released Nov 13th 2020 on Gare du Nord Records. Footage by Helen Smith. Keiron Phelan and Peace Signs are delighted to bring you the summer album that never was. Didn’t have a proper summer? Didn’t think so. Stage it now, with Hobby Jingo. Songs about candy floss, cinnamon, Imogen,…
[streaming] Family Mart – Starlite
New digital single by Family Mart, available now at https://familymart.bandcamp.com. Austin-based Family Mart is the brand-new project of Mike Lee who used to be a member of Letting Up Despite Great Faults and Fanclub. https://www.facebook.com/familymart666
[streaming] Dex Wolfe – Highly Likely
Second single from “Lightness EP”, out October 23rd. Dex Wolfe is a Seward-based multi-instrumentalist that has been a mainstay of the Minneapolis music scene for years. In acts such as Rivers and Undlin & Wolfe, he embraced a lush, pastoral folk sound, but as he’s ready to release music under his own name, Wolfe experiments…
NAH… – Nah… (Shelflife, 2020) Nah…, ovvero di come due appassionati di indie-pop possano diventare protagonisti attivi della propria passione. La storia del duo, già segnalatosi da qualche tempo nel sottobosco delle autoproduzioni pop, nasce da un incontro a distanza tra Sebastian Voss ed Estella Rosa, separati in realtà da appena un paio di centinaia…
EUROPEAN SUN – European Sun (Where It’s At Is Where You Are, 2020) Le infinite strade del pop d’autore inglese conoscono incroci a volte sorprendenti, tanto che non è semplice nemmeno per i suoi cultori più accaniti tenere traccia delle collaborazioni e dalle mutevoli denominazioni assunte di volta in volta da alcuni dei suoi artefici….
[streaming] fine. – One Year On
From the upcoming LP by fine., due Oct/Nov 2020. fine. is: Liam James Marsh (Kid Chameleon) https://kidcham.bandcamp.com/ Alice Kat https://alicekat.bandcamp.com/
[streaming] The Luxembourg Signal – 2:22
Taken from “The Long Now”, out October 23rd 2020 via Shelflife Records. Members of the transatlantic indie-pop collective the Luxembourg Signal are spread between Los Angeles, San Diego and London, but they’ve carved out a niche among fans of ’80s/’90s-era indie-pop. After debuting with a self-titled album in 2014 and following it with “Blue Field”…
[video of the week] Steven Adams and The French Drops – My Brother, The Racist
Taken from the forthcoming album “Keep It Light”, out August 21st 2020 via Fika Recordings. “True story. It’s an awkward thing to sing about, but it felt like the right thing to do. Write about what you know. I worried that it was a bit depressing, but as soon as we started playing together it…
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