Author: hugger
Harper Simon – Bonnie Brae
Harper Simon’s new LP is called ‘Division Street’ and for a minute I thought I’d spotted the primary influence in it’s naming. With receding braincells but a sprightly search engine technique I was soon to discover that Elliott Smith’s song […]
Streamadelica
When it comes to listening to digital music iTunes remains the dominant player, not because it offers a particularly brilliant service (it offers a particularly poor one in my book) but because the proprietary obsessed Apple are behind it and […]
The Books – Beautiful People
I’ve taken this line directly from the Books record label Temporary Residence ‘the deluxe 2xLP format comes packaged with 36 full-color die-cut stickers for you to design and decorate your own unique record cover’. Says it all really, a band […]
Fascinator – Summer Dream
Partly chosen because summer has become somewhat of a dream of late, especially in light of the hailstone showers earlier. Mostly chosen though for being a jangling spectrum, the sort of sound that could well initiate far too many straw […]
Thumpers – Sound of Screams
A bit like the Go! Team if they were slowed down and put back together with the misfiring parts given a brand new role ‘Sound of Screams’ still manages to sound bigger than the work of just 2 people. Marcus […]
AfterParty – Jungle Dreams
Not sure what stopped me from destroying this mp3 because on initial inspection it had a tad too much cheese to go the distance. Putting it aside I then returned a number of times and on each occasion a little […]
Steel Band Procession – Yankees Gone
If this indie life hadn’t got me so young I would most probably have taken to setting up the very first Calypso music blog. I don’t think there is another genre that fuels a happier disposition. My infatuation was sparked […]
Foxtails Brigade – The Unloved
Much like the gulf stream this track by Oakland band Foxtails Brigade warms up the atmosphere to a rather pleasing degree. Much hinges on Laura Weinbach’s slowly delivered, lazer guided, crystal cut vocals but there is dreamy atmospherics’ aplenty on […]
Spotlight Kid – April
Spotlight Kid take from one of the best shoegaze acts that ever was (we’re talking Swervedriver) which makes what they do all the more palatable because without that it could be a mere token reprisal rather a voyage into new […]
The Dead Heads – When I’m Dead
Were it not for the enthusiasm and graft of the Jeffrey siblings this Sydney band would never have stood a chance. I can see them now, neighbours banging down the walls as the two (and assorted comrades) strip the paint […]
[Mixtape] The First Days of Summer
It seems like it has taken an eternity to arrive but this weekend we are beginning to the see the reappearance of that burning sphere that had up to this point eluded us. To celebrate here are a bunch of […]
Photo Ops – Someplace
Nashville’s Terry Price has been around the block once or twice (with his old band Oblio) and has suffered quite a few slings and arrows lately. Like most people he struggled on but instead of hiding behind a cloak of […]