Category: indie pop
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 […]
The Bicycles – Appalachian Mountain Station
Things went a bit flat for Canadian troupe the Bicycle circa 2009. So much so that it seemed as if they had drawn their last breath. Thankfully there was resilience behind their sweeping indie pop façade and the band, who […]
Veronica Falls – Buried Alive
Goodness knows how I’ve missed them up to this point given that my usual set of indie pop barometers have been flagging Veronica Falls for some time. Well, at least we’re here now I suppose. And what a treat it […]
Tiger Waves – Countryside
Austin’s Tiger Waves could well become our favourite new band and that’s even before their debut album sees the light of day (maybe sometime this year). Our excitement is not confined to this perfect piece of surf jangle either, but […]
The Da Vincis – 50′s Film
It’s been over 3 years since a trio of fresh faced young men released their debut album ‘See You Tonight’ while still in the throes of study, books and cheap booze. Fast forward to the present and the Da Vincis […]
Best Coast – Gone Again
Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno are between them into Fleetwood Mac, Metallica and cats. Not that you could entirely tell from the summer pop that coarses through their records but then what our popstars do in their spare time should […]
Baffin Island – Sorry For Myself
Although it is the 5th biggest island in the world it is unlikely that many outside of a small knot of indie pop fans (and even smaller local population) has heard of Baffin. Sporting a barren but beautiful landscape it […]
The Lower 48 – The End
‘The Lower 48 craft folk songs you could swear you have been humming for years’ is what it says on their webpage and as it happens that’s exactly what I thought when I heard ‘The End’. It annoyed me that […]
Lake – Oh, The Places We’ll Go
Lake are an indie pop collective from Washington that are not entirely consistent in their delivery of sonic jewels. That said it is nay on impossible to ignore them given their propensity for issuing odd delights like this, the title […]
Conor Mason – Words
For a man with such a genuine craft for writing beautifully soothing songs it is puzzling that notices of his existence are few and far between on home soil. Much be frustrating for the Derry man considering what big suckers […]
Twin Falls – Janie I Will Only Let You Down
Having run his own label, Exercise1, for several years Luke Stidson knows exactly what the dynamics are in selling a band. So when he decided to come at it from the other side of the fence with his own outfit […]
My Little Pony – A Song For You (On Your 40th Birthday)
They may have changed their name to Making Marks but we will always know this Oslo band as My Little Pony. Hard to accept the change in fact given that they released an album called ‘My Little Pony Plays The […]