“Sirio” is the opening track of “Big Domino Vortex”, the 6-tracks debut EP of Human Colonies, out on 23rd January 2016 via MiaCameretta Records & Lady Sometimes Records. It’s a thrilling 90s noisepop featuring distorted sonic guitars, mellow pop melodies and a real shoegaze swooning touch! Human Colonies are a “blurred dreamy cloudy fuzzy something” trio…
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[streaming] Wharfer – Breeze (Since I Was Born)
“Breeze (Since I Was Born)” is the opening track of the third album by Kyle Wall, who performs under the name Wharfer. For his album “Scenes of the Tourist”, out January 13, Brooklyn-based Wall channeled the diverse range of interests his musical roommates to write an orchestral collection of songs that strays far from his…
[streaming] The Color Waves – Play Along
The Color Waves is a long-distance home-recording project featuring ex-members of All My Friends. “Play Along” is the title track of a digital single released December 5th and it’s featured as the current “single of the week” of the radio show L’Attimo Fuggente. http://www.thecolorwaves.com/
[streaming] Piano Magic – Landline
After twenty years, Piano Magic’s announce final album “Closure,”. It will be formally released by Second Language Music on January 20th 2017 worldwide on CD, 180gm vinyl and digital download formats. Recorded in London between April and August of this year, ‘Closure,’ features guest appearances from Peter Milton Walsh of The Apartments, Audrey Riley (go-to…
[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…
[streaming] Joe Sampson – Otherwise The Pull
Track taken from the new Joe Sampson release, “Chansons de Parade” out December 1st via Hidden Shoal Records. Joe Sampson is the champion of the musical understatement, each song exuding a gently mesmerising beauty. His music evokes the comfortably sad acoustic tones of Nick Drake or Leonard Cohen, ornamented with often darkly humorous lyrics, intoned…
[streaming] Mago – Bellows
Mago is the solo project of Venezuelan-born composer, guitarist, and vocalist Mateo Lugo (also of Totonoko). His music swells from an untangling complexity, where intricate guitar work, unexpected chord progressions, and archetypal imagery are woven into a rarified aesthetic. Mago is music on a tightrope between body, thought, and the weathervane of emotion. His debut EP “Mago” can be…
[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] True Strength – Malta
True Strength is Ida Duelund-Hansen (Copenhagen) and Alexander Garsden (Melbourne). Since 2012 they have performed across Europe, USA and Australia. Straddling two spoken languages and multiple musical disciplines, their work together interweaves songwriting in the revivalist folk tradition, early baroque and renaissance music, electro-acoustic music, and free improvisation. The duo’s first single ‘Lyse Striber’ (in…
[streaming] MayMay – Cracks
Laurel Simmons is the songwriter behind MayMay. The project began as an ode to friends and family back home in Flagstaff, Arizona. Over time it has evolved to become a project played, at various times, with several fellow musicians. Among those included are Heather Woods Broderick, Raúl Pastor Medall, and Nicholas Archibald Marshall, all dear…
[streaming] Gareth Dickson – Two Halfs
Gareth Dickson is ghostlike. From the dark outskirts of Glasgow he has sent three studio studio albums in to the world – “Collected Recordings” (2009), “The Dance” (2010) and “Quite A Way Away” (2012). These albums have bewitched a growing inner circle, including some of the most innovative musicians around today – Juana Molina and…
[streaming] Laish – Pendulum Swing
Title track of the new Laish album, out November 4th on Talitres. Daniel Green speaks about the album: “I could feel myself becoming fossilised in Brighton, hardening into the grooves of my drinking and laziness so before I became fully set in amber, I dragged myself away and moved to London. Landing in the capital…
[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…
[streaming] Thisell – Black Bird
Taken from “II”, second album by Swedish songwriter Peter Thisell, out now on Rootsy Records. Lay here and listen to the sound of a soul laid bare in song. This is Thisell – a singer, songwriter, traveler, father, partner, son. Supported by a cast of talented friends, Thisell’s music invites the listener on a sweeping…
[video of the week] Paul Goodwin – Wasted On The Young
Taken from “The Northern Lights in the Neon Tube”, second album by Paul Goodwin, out on 16 September 2016. Paul Goodwin grew up in London but lives in Cambridge now. He’s spent a lot of the last 15 years or so dragging his guitar around the rail network and on the odd plane, playing his…
[streaming] Snails – Seventeen
Snails are an experimental pop band from Bristol. Snails generate moments of suburbanguitar pop reverie for lonely people walking to the shops. Formed after a friend’s request to soundtrack a budget slasher involving a homicidal nun, their sound bears the influence of mavericks such as Basil Kirchin, Syd Barrett and Nico. Snails debut album “Safe…
[streaming] David Allred – Hymns
Taken from the new 10″ by David Allred, “Woods”, out September 24th on Oscarson Label. David Allred (born 1992) grew up in California, near the city of Sacramento. After falling in love with the trumpet, he decided to study jazz, and could be found transcribing and recreating the solos of chet baker. but david’s musical…
[streaming] From A Distance – Jenny
“Jenny” is the first single of the forthcoming debut called “From a Distance”. The record is the project of an Italian singer songwriter and guitarist, momentarily based in Southern Germany. He is accompanied by some “distant” friends and musicians who participated to the arrangements and the recording of the record. Aiming to to overcome distances,…
[video of the week] Lizard Kisses – Take Comfort
Lizard Kisses is the collaborative songwriting project of Cory Siegler and Marc Merza. The duo have been releasing music over the past five years, working alongside different like-minded musicians in their Brooklyn community, including members of Florist, Mutual Benefit, and Share-a-tories as well as the Spookfish’s Dan Goldberg. Siegler and Merza front the Lizard Kisses…
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