Indie
Track: The Peacers – ‘Ghost Of A Motherfucker’: a lazyass garage nugget
WHAT’S set San Fran’s ace garage outfit The Peacers apart from other bands from that city’s scene they’re travelling alongside (and exchanging members with) is a more baroque, acoustic approach to their garage vision; maybe a little more Pearls Before Swine in that initial mix than say, Bubble Puppy, maybe more ’66 than ’69. Frankly, …
Track: The Coral’s Ian and James bring their grandad in to narrate ‘The Great Muriarty’
AFTER rolling back into our lives and fuzzing everything up at the end of last month like a particularly psych-pop coastal fog with the deliciously eerie “Faceless Angel” and the unveiling of album the tenth, coming towards the end of April, once more, dear friends, once more, The Coral are ringmasters of the unforeseen. And …
See: HighSchool – ‘De Facto’: Melbourne trio shoot a darkly danceable arrow at love’s fiction
HAVING signed for the British indie Dalliance last autumn – and you can really see why those particular talent-spotters, Rich and Matt, were so eager to get them under their wing – Melbourne’s HighSchool have just released their first single of the year, “De facto” which comes armed with a self-directed video; you can watch …
Track: Travis Shaw – Only Human
After wowing us with his single ‘Refuge’ (see here) the North East troubadour Travis Shaw has shared the video for track ‘Only Human’ taken from his EP ‘Balance’ released 2019. The way this guy packs in the emotion into his music is immediately grabbing. From the picked guitar of the intro to the desperation in …
Track: Jeshua – ‘IDK’: another dreampop cracker from the Glasgow school
DUNDONIAN Joshua Gray transposes into the musical sphere as Jeshua, and as such, plies a delightful, lo-fi yet soaring line in dreamy, gliding guitar pop which could easily have come adorned in a v23 sleeve for 4AD. He’s resident in that most musically indie of Scottish cities, Glasgow, and he’s pretty new to the scene, …
Album Review: Randolph’s Leap – Spirit Level
Spirit Level is the new album from Scottish folk-pop collective Randolph’s Leap. The titular ‘spirit level’ is a steady reference point over what had been an unsettled spell writing the album, with Adam Ross uprooting from a decade in Glasgow to a tauntingly lopsided house in rural Aberdeenshire, navigating his way through shifting phases in …
Track: An Early Bird unveils the hauntingly beautiful single Fishes in the Ocean
Stefano Di Stefano is Italian outfit An Early Bird – and an artist Backseat Mafia has been following closely ever since we sprang into production way back in 2013. Stefano came into our view with a band called Pipers before setting off on a very successful solo career. Stefano is the archetypal romantic troubadour of …
Album Review: Flyying Colours’ new album ‘Fantasy Country’ is a smashing and cathartic dose of shoegaze sparkle
The anthemic and statuesque ‘Goodtimes’ kicks opens the doors of the new and blistering album ‘Fantasy Country’ by Melbourne band Flyying Colours. And what you get at the beginning is what you can expect through to the end of this extremely enjoyable and highly rewarding album. In ‘Goodtimes’ there is an amusing tension between the …
See: Francis Lung releases new visuals for the classic songwriting of new single, ‘Bad Hair Day’
Former Wu-Lyf man Tom McClung is back with a follow up to his 2019 debut ‘A Dream Is U’ under his Francis Lung; called Miracle, it’s out on Memphis Industries on June 18th, and for vinyl fans – it’s available on a Dinked Edition (more info here), and is preceded by a new single ‘Bad Hair …
See: Zoon – ‘Was & Always Will Be’: mantric First Nation shoegaze
ZOON is an artist who’s fully busting it up Stateside, and you can so see why when you go swimming in the deep guitar scorch of his new single “Was & Always Will Be”, which we’ve embedded for you below. Zoon is the musical guising of Daniel Monkman, a Hamilton, Ontario-based musician in love with …