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The Lickerish Quartet – ‘Snollygoster Goon’: Jellyfish bods back in the groove
DO YOU miss the prog-psych-powerpop odysseys of Nineties’ San Fran outfit Jellyfish? All those empurpled paisley power ideas thrown into a thrilling mix? Well listen up, listen up; Jellyfish’s Roger Joseph Manning Jr, Tim Smith and Eric Dover, who’ve been plying their respective individual trades with Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Slash’s Snake Pit, the Finn Brothers, Alice …
SEE: The Departure Lounge – ‘Mercury In Retrograde’: indie prodigals return on Michael Head’s label
SEVENTEEN long years away; but you can’t keep a decent indie songsmith gone forever. You may well recall the graceful indie of the Departure Lounge; they released two sweet and underappreciated albums for Bella Union, 2001’s Jetlag Dreams and Too Late To Die Young a year later. You may be even longer in the indie …
SEE: Tele Novella – ‘Never’: a sweet song of loss and yearning with Super 8 footage
TEXAS TWOSOME Tele Novella, who memorably describe themselves on Twitter as “coin-operated medieval pop songs through a 1950s western lens” (and that’s totally on the money) have today released a third track and accompanying romantic Super 8 film from their forthcoming February album, Merlynn Belle. We’ve taken in both of the two preceding singles: the …
SEE: MF Tomlinson – ‘Strange Time’: rising alt.folk talent announces debut album
MICHAEL TOMLINSON is the main man in the sorta-solo project MF Tomlinson, in which he plys a very neat line in indie folk/roots songcraft with a grainy bearhug of a voice. Australian by birth but based in London, Michael has just dropped the video for “Strange Time” a song very much about the upending of …
SEE: Tamar Aphek – ‘Drive’: a psych-blues stormer from Tel Aviv
ALREADY something of a guitar goddess in her native Tel Aviv, Kill Rock Stars, that seminal imprint that’s hosted the like of Elliott Smith, The Decemberists, Sleater-Kinney and more, have tempted Tamar Aphek through their doors, the better that we should swoon for her. And once you’ve climbed aboard for her new single, “Drive”, you …
Rising: We meet Spang Sisters; see the vid for the post-modern soul of ‘Eddie Murphy’
AFTER first being seduced by the name (I mean: isn’t Spang Sisters a thing of beauty?), we were further seduced by the musical chops of the said sisters, in actual fact duo Rachid and Jules. Not just those cool Hall & Oates meets Unknown Mortal Orchestra vibes; but also these keenly observed, skewed views of …
EP REVIEW: Laura Groves – ‘A Private Road’: pristine and dreamy debut; socially distanced gig announced
A Private Road is a dreamscape, swirling elements of modern electronica, shoegaze, soul and folk into a set on which you really get a sense of Laura while she also remains wraithlike, a blur of whisper and talent at the core
NEWS: Cory Hanson announces second solo LP; see the country-psych grace of ‘Paper Fog’
CORY HANSON, singer-guitarist with LA psych seducers Wand, has today unveiled the video for “Paper Fog”, a very first preview of what’s to come from his second extra-curricular outing, Pale Horse Rider, due from the dependably lovely Drag City come spring. Watch the video, below. Drag City say “it’s a record as much about Los Angeles …
ALBUM REVIEW: Hjalte Ross – ‘Waves Of Haste’: gorgeous, nuanced indie-folk hits you in the chest
Composed at an isolated lighthouse on the Lofoten Islands, Hjalte’s second reaches inside your chest and doesn’t stop squeezing. Truly lovely