“Superman, Wondergirl” music video from the 2016 Dusken Lights album “In The Service Of Spring“. It’s not easy to organise a gig at the corner pub when your band members live in 3 different states of Australia, but this is just what Dusken Lights have been doing for the past few years – and it…
Tag: dream-pop
[streaming] Dark Globes – Dream Away
From the forthcoming album “Everybody I Know Is Falling Apart”, released March 2017 (Half Machine Records). Reassuringly downbeat, ego-free pop music, burying fragile songs under a fuzzy blanket of reverb, lit by a candle of jangle. A shy collective of Southenders, a mismatched coalescence of oddballs. “Dream Away” is featured as the current “single of the…
[video of the week] JFDR – White Sun
Iceland’s JFDR is the newly forged solo project of Jófríður Ákadóttir who’s unmistakable voice also forms the backbone of fellow Icelandic outfits Samaris and Pascal Pinon. But JFDR sees her break out on her own, and the results are as enchanting as you’d expect. JFDR’s new track “White Sun” is, in many ways, what you’d…
TEARS RUN RINGS – In Surges (Deep Space Recordings, 2016)* Se la rete ha senz’altro ampiamente incentivato le collaborazioni a distanza tra musicisti residenti in luoghi anche molto distanti tra loro, quando tale modalità si applica a vere e proprie band la sua stabile prosecuzione diventa sempre più difficile con il passare del tempo e…
BUILDING INSTRUMENT – Kem Som Kan Å Leve (Hubro, 2016) Non potrebbe esserci immagine più calzante del “Collage” che apre “Kem Som Kan Å Leve”, secondo lavoro dei Building Instrument, a riassumere la pratica artista del terzetto norvegese: lo si comprende dai primi arcani segnali elettro-acustici e dai fremiti ritmici che in quel brano avvolgono…
DANIEL LAND – In Love With A Ghost (Hinney Beast, 2016) Non più accompagnato dai suoi Modern Painters – ancorché alcuni dei musicisti che formavano la band continuano a suonare con lui – Daniel Land torna alla produzione discografica dopo quattro anni dall’ottimo “The Space Between Us” e, soprattutto, dopo un periodo nel quale motivi…
[streaming] Aidan Baker w. Claire Brentnall – Delirious Things
“Delirious Things” is an exploration of Aidan Baker‘s interest in 80s-influenced cold-wave, shoegaze, and synth-pop from such recording artists as Factory Records’ Durutti Column, Joy Division, and Section 25 and 4AD’s Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil. Combining song-oriented tracks with abstract interludes, the primary instrument on “Delirious Things” is a 1980s Casio synthesizer, rather…
[video of the week] Dark Globes – Never Let Me Down
Music video for “Never Let Me Down” by Dark Globes, taken from the debut album “Everyone I Know Is Falling Apart”, released March 2017 (Half Machine Records). Reassuringly downbeat, ego-free pop music, burying fragile songs under a fuzzy blanket of reverb, lit by a candle of jangle. A shy collective of Southenders, a mismatched coalescence…
[streaming] Tears Run Rings – Part Of The Glass
Tears Run Rings is a West Coast shoegaze/dreampop band, with members living in Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. “Part Of The Glass” is taken from “In Surges”, their third full-length, out on Deep Space Recordings, December 2nd 2016. “In Surges” has been six years in the making. Over that time span, the band met up…
[streaming] Daniel Land – New York Boogie-Woogie
After a three year hiatus, Daniel Land has announced the forthcoming release of his “In Love With A Ghost” LP, undoubtedly his most complicated and textured record to date. This album follows albums “Love Songs For The Chemical Generation” and “The Space Between Us” by Daniel Land & The Modern Painters. It was recorded over the…
THE YEARNING – Evening Souvenirs (Elefant, 2016) Un tuffo nel raffinato candore sixties, senza intenti revivalisti e nostalgie limitate al solo livello dell’estetica. Certo, fin dall’immagine in bianco e nero della copertina, il secondo album di The Yearning, band inglese che ruota intorno alle ovattate ambientazioni sonore di Joe Moore e alla suadente dolcezza interpretativa…
JOHN WHITE – Henry Green And The Island Of Tuliarts (Monkey, 2016) Ancora una volta non si può fare a meno di considerare come l’isolamento fisico e geografico possa fungere da premessa per produzioni musicali davvero particolari, apparentemente asincrone rispetto alle tendenze stilistiche prevalenti a livello internazionali. Ancora una volta è la Nuova Zelanda la…
[streaming] John White – Henry Green
“Henry Green” is the opening track of the forthcoming album “Henry Green and the Island of Tuliarts” by New Zealand based dream pop artist, John White. It is the fourth solo departure since 2000 for the Dunedin-based singer from his heavy popgaze bands Mëstar and the Blueness. To listen to a John White album is…
SYMBION PROJECT – Arcadian (Speed Of Dark, 2016) Capita anche agli artisti più navigati in campi musicali distanti da contenuti melodici di volersi cimentare nel difficile esercizio delle canzoni. L’ultimo della serie Kasson Crooker, alias Symbion Project, che dopo aver esplorato in lungo e in largo linguaggi elettronici compresi tra le pulsazioni idm e le…
SHIELD PATTERNS – Mirror Breathing (Gizeh, 2016) La seconda prova sulla lunga distanza del duo formato da Richard Knox (Glissando, A-Sun Amissa, The Rustle Of The Stars) con la cantante Claire Brentnall offre dell’ibradizione ambient-trip-hop del debutto “Contour Lines” (2014) una varietà di sfaccettature che ben rispecchia le complesse personalità dei due artisti. Mentre infatti la…
[streaming] Elara Caluna – Sweet William
Elara Caluna (Kitty Hall and Benedict Salter) are an emerging duo from Glasgow chosen by Glasgow artist Jim Lambie to be the first release on his newly minted VoidoidARCHIVE record label. The label hopes to document notable talents emerging from a music/art scene surrounding Lambie’s Poetry Club, a nightclub he built in a disused railway…
[video of the week] Hazel English – Never Going Home
“Never Going Home” is the title track and first single from the new EP by Hazel English, released October 7th by: House Anxiety / Marathon Artists. Hazel English is an Oakland-based Aussie native, whose tracks dropped online on her Soundcloud page quickly caught listeners’ attention. http://www.hazelenglish.com/
THE ALBUM LEAF – Between Waves (Relapse, 2016) Non si può fare a meno di provare un certo affetto per Jimmy LaValle e per la sigla The Album Leaf, che lo accompagna ormai da quasi vent’anni: gli orizzonti dischiusi con lo splendido binomio “An Orchestrated Rise To Fall” (1999) e “One Day I’ll Be On…
MEDICINE VOICE – I And Thou (Provenance, 2016) Il debutto dell’australiana Sar Friedman sotto il nuovo alias Medicine Voice – che sostituisce il precedente Heartswim – è qualcosa di diverso dalle ormai diffuse combinazioni tra scrittura d’autore e linguaggi sperimentali. Benché l’ambivalenza di tali caratteri sia resa in maniera emblematica dai titoli, tutti doppi, dei…
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