Indie
Track: Wee Cherubs – Dreaming
Originally out in 1984 on the short-lived Glasgow based label Bogatan, Dreaming was Glasgows the Wee Cherubs only commercial release, written by Martin Cotter who found (relative in comparison) fame in The Bachelor Pad. Backed by a version of The Velvet Underground’s ‘Waiting for my Man’, it’s original run didn’t sell well, due in part …
Album review: The Wolfhounds – Electric Music
A FEW days ago, I wrote in a review that you can’t keep a good genre down; necessarily, it follows that you can’t keep a great band down. And a great illustration of this would be East London’s The Wolfhounds, back with us once more and poised to release their third long-player since reforming, and …
See: Japandroids release live version of ‘Heart Sweats’ video
Vancouver’ Japandroids have announced that their first ever live album, Massey Fucking Hall – named after the Toronto venue it was recorded in, is out digitally on June 19th via ANTI- Records, with a vinyl version following on October 2nd. From it, the band have shared Heart Sweats, originally appearing on 2009’s Post-Nothing. Of the …
Album Review: Modern Nature – Annual
JACK COOPER has had a mercurial musical decade. Cast your mind back ten years and you’d have found him in that harbour of all things leftfield, FatCat, plying his trade in garage-motorik band Mazes. A tour with indiepoppers Veronica Falls led to a brace of albums filled with sunshiney, Californian country psych as Ultimate Painting, …
News: BOB To release ‘You can stop that for a start’ album
80s/90s indie upstarts BOB have announced they are releasing a new album ‘You can stop that for a start’ via Optic Nerve on September 25th. The band, beloved of far too few people during their original existence despite three Peel sessions and the magnificent ‘Convenience’ featuring in the Festive Fifty of 1989. The release is …
See: Mermaidens – Bastards
New Zealand’s fabulous Mermaidens have just release a video for the song ‘Bastards’ off their album ‘Look Me In The Eye’, out now through Flying Nun Records. ‘Bastards’ is a dark brooding sleek song immeshed in melancholia and regre,t with a serpentine bass and a haunting refrain: I’ve got bruises from being too close. Mermaidens …
Track: LIFE – Switching On (Idles Remix)
Following on from the release of their recent single Switching On, Hull band LIFE have shared a new remix by Bristol’s Mercury nominated scamps, Idles. The remix was done by the bands guitarist and friends of LIFE, Mark Bowen, who says of the remix:“I have watched LIFE play live well over 100 times and one …
Album Review: Boyracer – On a Promise
It’s hard to keep a good genre down, to coin a phrase: and the once-maligned ‘tweepop’ – the bands that followed on in the wake of the NME’s C86 compilation of 60s’-informed, chiming guitarpop, for so long on the critical ropes, has come back fighting in recent years.Once barely worthy of a mention in the weekly British …
Track: Bo Ningen – Minimal
London based Japanese band Bo Ningen have been steadily evolving their cathartic noise rock statements into something more expansive and diverse over the last few years. In fact even at their most Melt Banana they have always injected some melodic psyche overtones and a feel for song structure into their music. Now after three LPs …
See: Bee Bee Sea share video for latest single ‘Daily Jobs’
Hailing from Castel Goffredo in Lombardy, Italy, Bee Bee Sea formed in 2013 and have since released two albums: the self-titled debut in 2015 and ‘Sonic Boomerang’ in 2017. They have been consistently touring in Europe, the UK and the US, supporting the likes of Thee Oh Sees, Black Lips and Idles. After releasing ‘Daily …