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Album Review: Keep Shelly in Athens – Now I’m ready
Everything seemed to be rosy in Greek duo Keep Shelly in Mind’s world, at least from the outside following the release of their highly regarded debut album, 2012’s At Home. However, shortly afterwards, lead singer Shelly P left to persue a solo career, and the future of the band, given that they were 50% lighter …
News: Lisbon announce new UK tour
Up and coming north east band Lisbon are set to hit the road again in 2016, bringing their vibrant slices of electronic pop to the masses once more. They completed a successful tour of UK venues earlier this year and saw the release of their “Life is Good” EP which featured amongst its indie pop …
See: Fictionian releases new video for “Mrs Jones”
Mrs Jones is the new single from Hertfordshire based multi-instrumentalist Fictionian, aka Glen Roberts. This faux-fanfare like opening makes way for this lovely tumbling synths and high, melodic bassline. Over the top Roberts delivers a soaring melody that glues itself firmly to your consciousness as it plays out its boroque-pop way full of the spirit …
Track: Thus Owls – Turn up the Volumes
Secret City Records’ Thus Owls are a Montreal based group, formed by Erika and Simon Angell in 2007. Their new EP Black Matter is out on preorder now. They have a distinct Scandinavian sound; experimental cinematic music with emotive and direct vocals, taken from an ambient melay of noise into an eery and warped almost …
Preview: Fuzz Club Festival at London Fields Brewhouse, 13th-14th November
Only 30 more sleeps to go, only 30 more sleeps to go, only 30 more sleeps to go… Anyone who has been paying even scant attention, that includes you at the back with the pointy hat on, will have noticed my zealous adoration for all things Fuzz Club – if you haven’t, please leave quietly by that …
Track: Hot As Sun – I can feel your love
LA based songwriter Jamie Jackson, aka Hot As Sun is back with another dose of her 80s laced synth-pop in the form of a new single, I Can Feel Your Love, taken from her upcoming EP ‘Little Friend’. There’s something seductive about the jagged, playful pop, these plopping synth notes and metallic sounding drum beats, …
See: Dead Horses reveal Video to “Ain’t Got Time”
Is there such thing as a country wig-out? If there is, I would suggest that towards the end of the new single from Milwaukee trio Dead Horses is where to start looking. After repeatedly letting us know, via the catchiest of means, that they ‘ain’t got time’, they shoot that theory into space by making …
Track: Travelers – My Fault
Essentially built on this rather plaintive guitar line moving between two chords, with a little added melanchoy, My Fault is the new song revealed by Los Angeles indie rockers Travelers. It has the arid indie pop of a Gomez, but instead with this undeniably catchy shuffle, while over the top the vocal has this misty, …
Track: Alphanaut – Electricity
Working with a revolving cast of friends has meant that often songwriter Mark Alan has traversed a wide range of musical styles over his career under his Alphanaut moniker. He’s firmly entrenched in Synth-Pop with his latest effort, Electricity – taken from his forthcoming third album ‘Meanwhile back on Earth’. Sounding almost quintessentially English, something …
EP: Ayria – Feed Her To The Wolves
Ayria returns with the “Feed Her To The Wolves” EP, the first new material from the electro-industrial synth pop artist since “Plastic Makes Perfect” in 2013. Ayria once again teams up with producer Sebastian R. Komor (Icon of Coil, Zombie Girl). The new EP will feature 4 tracks, 2 new offerings and 2 remixes and …