Indie pop
See: Underground Lovers release new video for Every Sign and announce tour
Melbourne’s magnificent Underground Lovers have released a new video for the song “Every Sign” off last year’s epic album “Staring at you, Staring at me” (reviewed here). This is in anticipation of a mainland capital city Australian tour in March – their biggest tour in a while (sadly Hobart is left out). “Every Sign” is …
Meet: Ryan Keen interview
Ryan Keen is quite the jet setter. For a singer-songwriter and guitar supremo who has chummed about with the likes of Ed Sheeran, supported X Factor diva Leona Lewis and toured the world in the last few years, bringing his polished, anthemic but intimate brand of music to the world, he calls Totnes in Devon …
Live Review: Ryan Keen / Corey Harper, The Islington, London, 30/11/17
Totnes-born singer-songwriter Ryan Keen has graced the same stages as megastars like Ed Sheeran and X Factor champion Leona Lewis playing support slots on huge national and indeed world tours, but if he has been changed by these massive brushes with success, you’d never know. He has also toured with some of the most interesting …
New Music: The Raft, Orion (EP)
Liverpudlian Phil Wilson, the genius behind The Raft, is scarily prolific, having released a series of three rather epic EPs over the last six months (see previous reviews here). And what is even more astounding is the quality never suffers: these are a series of brilliant indie pop jingle jangle classics that manages to merge …
Track: The Dayoffs – Two Actors in a Cage
NYC’s The Dayoffs actually have their roots a little further afield. The duo, Vladimir Komarov and Atsuo Matsumoto hail from Russia and Japan, and met as producers while working on other artists’ output. Seemingly continuously working on other people’s music, they recorded some instrumental improvisations during studio downtime, gathering enough material for a debut LP. …
Track : Symbion Project , “Bloodthirsty”
Symbion Project led by Seattle’s own electronic craftsman Kasson Crooker releases the single Bloodthirsty on October 20. What a striking, strange title for a down-tempo synthetic single song is this…and dressed with the appropriate “slashed” blood red front cover, I thought I would listen to an EBM manifest! Let’s see, Symbion Project is the brainchild …
New Music: Eilish Gilligan, Creature of Habit
Melbourne’s Eilish Gilligan could not be accused of being prolific, but what she does release is stunning and all the more valuable for its scarcity. Her new release, “Creature of Habit” is out now and it is a haunting, beautiful song. Melancholic, electronic indie pop just begins to pin its style down, and yet it …
New Music: Racing, The Bass (EP)
There’s nothing like a bit of swaggering, posturing, assured rock’n’roll and no better is that epitomised than by a new band out of New Zealand called Racing. They have just released an EP entitled “The Bass” and my attention was fully captured after seeing their new video for the song “Let It Slip”. Directed by …
New Music: Wild Ones, Mirror Touch
Wild Ones are an indie pop band from Portland, Oregon – as always, a petrie dish of artistic creativity. With an EP already under their belt, Wild Ones are about to release their debut album, “Mirror Touch”, and in a crowded bus of indie pop/rock brilliance, they stand out with their effervescent, shining, intelligent pop. …
New Music: Mogwai, Every Country’s Sun
Scotland’s Mogwai are one of those bands that have been on the periphery of my vision (or hearing?) for many years, receiving strong critical acclaim and amassing a huge and dedicated following. I just haven’t had room on my brimming musical plate to encompass them, and to be honest the idea of a (mostly) instrumental …