Girl Ray’s official video for “Preacher” and the sequel to Nettles of the Parish ft. professional legends/actors Mike O’ Malley, Alex Parish and Poppy’s mum. Taken from their forthcoming debut album “Earl Grey”, released on Moshi Moshi Records on 4th August. Girl Ray, the North London-based 18 year-old three-piece formed of Poppy Hankin (guitar/vocals), Iris…
Tag: dream-pop
BEACH FOSSILS – Somersault (Bayonet, 2017)* Esistono vie di affrancamento dai cliché della nostalgia wave: Dustin Payseur ha trovato la sua in un periodo di silenzio creativo durato quattro anni (tanti sono trascorsi dal secondo album dei suoi Beach Fossils, “Clash The Truth“), nel corso dei quali ha simbolicamente lasciato la casa-madre Captured Tracks, fondando…
[streaming] Cloud Tangle – Always Falling
“Always Falling” is the opening track of “Pocket”, debut Ep by Cloud Tangle. Cloud Tangle is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Amber Ramsay, which combines video art and music to evoke a mood equally devastating and beautiful. Her ethereal vocals soar above silky guitar melodies, dragging you ever downward into a subdued, grimly content atmosphere….
A THOUSAND HOURS – Endless Grey (Vesper, 2017) Denominazione prescelta, estetica, temi e titoli rappresentano già un eloquente biglietto da visita per una band, alla definizione della cui personalità concorre senz’altro anche la provenienza da luoghi remoti: A Thousand Hours sono un quartetto dell’Alaska, luogo il cui fascino vaporoso si ritrova appieno negli undici brani…
[video of the week] Modern Cosmology – C’est Le Vent
Modern Cosmology is the new project from Laetitia Sadier with the Brazilian group Mombojó. Laetitia Sadier is still making great collaborations all over the world, broadening a songbook that is more and more complex but always highly beautiful. But this collaboration with the Brazilian group Mombojó, which is what finally brought about this new group…
SÓLEY – Endless Summer (Morr Music, 2017) Alla tenebrosa immersione nelle profondità dell’animo umano, scandagliate a partire dalle note del pianoforte nel precedente album “Ask The Deep” (2015) e nei due Ep che vi hanno fatto da cornice, nel suo terzo lavoro solista Sóley Stefánsdóttir contrappone la prorompente vitalità del risveglio alla vita della primavera…
SLOWDIVE – Slowdive* (Dead Oceans, 2017) Poco importa che non si corra il rischio di essere originali nel richiamare l’attenzione sul ritorno, a ventidue anni dall’ultimo disco, di una band con all’attivo tre album, pubblicati tra il 1991 e il 1995, universalmente considerata tra le principali espressioni dello shoegaze. Benché gli Slowdive siano stati assenti…
[streaming] Sin Fang, Sóley & Örvar Smárason – Wasted
Three of Reykjavík’s most prolific and creative musicians have joined hands on a spontaneous new project. Sin Fang, Sóley and Örvar Smárason (múm, FM Belfast) will be releasing a new collaboration track at the end of each month in the year 2017. This can only mean one thing, oodles of exciting new music on a…
FRENCH FOR RABBITS – The Weight Of Melted Snow (Home Alone Music, 2017) La storia dei French For Rabbits è (stata) anche e soprattutto la storia di una coppia, che attraversa la frizzante freschezza della propria fase iniziale (l’Ep “Claimed By The Sea“, 2012), si stabilizza (l’album “Spirits“, 2014) e ora si dice addio, dal…
[streaming] Outerhope – Holiday
“Holiday” is the first single off dream pop duo Outerhope’s upcoming “Vacation” LP. In their fourth release, siblings Michael and Micaela Benedicto, from Manila, explore in-between places, love and death, memory and time. The track follows the loss of Micaela’s partner, the writer Luis Katigbak, composed in two separate parts during an extended six-month period….
[video of the week] Sóley – Grow
“Grow” is the second single of Sóley‘s upcoming album “Endless Summer” which will be released in May 2017 via Morr Music. Born in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, Sóley has attracted a huge following with her fairytale song craft over the last years. After the EP “Theater Island” (2010) announced her as a solo musician, the fantastical, sepia-toned…
[video of the week] Bank Myna – Lighthouse
Parisian quartet Bank Myna illustrates ‘Lighthouse’, from the band’s debut EP released in April 2016, with a dreamlike and symbolic short movie about a father-son relationship, shot by Antoine Toulliou and produced with the help of Les Films du Chat d’Oz. Used to long formats, the band with aerial and contrasted songs offers a captivating…
[streaming] French For Rabbits – One & Only
The first single from French for Rabbits new album “The Weight of Melted Snow”. Due out in New Zealand on 10th March 2017. In the space between waking and sleeping we have our most vivid dreams – vaguely strung together threads of memories, inner weirdness, our fears and hopes. It is in this space where…
LOWLY – Heba (Bella Union, 2017) Per i Lowly non potrebbe esserci credenziale migliore della benedizione di Simon Raymonde, che li aveva scoperti nel 2015 durante un festival in Danimarca e ne propone l’album di debutto sulla sua Bella Union. Co-prodotto da Anders Boll (già al lavoro con gli Efterklang), “Heba” riempie le lusinghiere premesse…
AIDAN BAKER w. CLAIRE BRENTNALL – Delirious Things (Gizeh, 2017) La foto che accompagna “Delirious Things” ritraendone i due protagonisti è la descrizione più emblematica della loro collaborazione: tanto fascinoso e ricercato è il modo di presentarsi di Claire Brentnall, suadente voce degli Shield Patterns, quanto scapigliato quello di Aidan Baker. Eppure, non è una…
[streaming] Her Harbour – Chime And Knell
Her Harbour is the moniker of Canadian singer songwriter Gabrielle Giguere. “Chime and Knell” is taken from her new LP “Go Gently Into The Night”, which will be released on February 3rd via E-Tron Records. Gabrielle’s thoughts on how the song is filled with the spectre of death, surrounded by the passing winter: “Chime and Knell”…
LOST TAPES – We Thought It Was Okay At The Time (2013-2015) (Shelflife, 2017) In un’epoca in cui la musica viaggia sempre più su canali “dematerializzati”, capita al contrario che i formati più antichi ritrovano nuova vita, specialmente in campi per cultori, come le cassette per i musicisti sperimentali e il vinile per gli appassionati…
[video of the week] Lowly – Word
First single out of the debut album from Lowly, that will be released on Bella Union 10th February 2017. The band describe their music as, “noise-pop, and everything in between.” In this case, ‘noise’ refers to the textures and treatments that the quintet mould from synths, laptop and guitar, which give Lowly’s spacious songs unpredictable, shape-shifting…
[memories] BLUE BELL KNOLL
COCTEAU TWINS – Blue Bell Knoll (4AD, 1988) La sottile linea di in(de)finitezza che, in fondo, accomunava molta della musica capace di impressionare un adolescente alla scoperta dello sconfinato universo di suoni inusitati (e accomuna anche quella di molta musica odierna…) trovava incarnazione privilegiata, tra anni ’80 e ’90, in rilucenti coltri di riverberi chitarristici…
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