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Desert – Desert
If you’re wondering what the strange lyrics are let me put you out of your misery as (the Minty Fresh bound) Desert sing in Catalan. Comprised of Cristina Checa and Eloi Caballé this Barcelona duo came together in the wake […]
Ben Hood – This Year
With Christmas rolling around again the inevitable Indiecater festive compilation is shaking a snow globe in the face of everyone on the block. You should know the drill by now with this collection of Christmas songs attempting to offer some […]
Alice And The Glass Lake – Lumunious
Imagine the moment when 4AD finally discovered that it was riding the crest of another movement and then put this song as the opening song on their compilation illustrating the arrival of the moment. ‘Luminous’ has so much going for […]
Laurie Cameron – Merry Christmas from Scotland (Lulled With a Stiff Drink)
Ok, that Petra Glynt track was probably a bit obtuse for early December so in an effort to redress the balance in favour of joy and triumphant sounds here is a beautiful track from Scottish bard Laurie Cameron. Although ‘Merry […]
Petra Glynt – Sour Paradise
When everything all around is fluffy white snow and jingle bells it is sometimes nice to take a trip down an alternate laneway. And they don’t get much more diagonal than this piece of delicious bonkers from Toronto experimentalist Petra […]
Eastern Hollows – Summer’s Dead
This immediately clicked and with quoted influences like the Stone Roses and Ride Eastern Hollows could quite easily have been a band that I created in my own head. The Brooklyn 5-piece have a debut LP in the works and […]
Temples – Keep In The Dark
For someone who doesn’t like Marc Bolan or the T. REX sound it is quite odd how they popped into my head as soon as I heard Temples ‘Keep In The Dark’. The similarities do tend evaporate as the song […]
A Beacon School – Bamboo
Have been watching with interest as this New York ensemble unfurl. There is a ragged glory to them that can’t be faked which could mean they are enormously talented and that debut album that they are hinting at for 2014 […]
The Naked And Famous – A Stillness
If you thought all that New Zealand could produce was a seismic set of janglers under the auspices of an airborne cleric you’d be so wrong because there’s Big Runga for one and this zeitgeist freewheelin’ duo (and friends) called […]
Ducktails – Honey Tiger Eyes
I’m sure it didn’t take a find-yourself jaunt to deepest India for them to come up with this new fangled psychedelic sound, they were probably just brought up on a diet of late era Beatles records. Perhaps not, maybe it […]
The Eastern Sea – The Match
I knew I liked this band as soon as I heard ‘The Match’ but that grew to become love when I discovered that they’d also released a full Christmas album last December, called ‘First Christmas’. Now it takes a certain […]
Two Door Cinema Club – Changing Of The Seasons
This is undoubtedly the 2nd best song that Northern Ireland act Two Door Cinema Club have written after the effervescent glory of their early tune ‘Something Good Can Work’. ‘Changing of the Seasons’ was released on a EP of the […]