Category: indie pop
Little Name – Tracy & I
Perhaps the best thing about being in a band of one is the fact that you’ve got complete artistic control and there is a general lack of incidences that could result in a trademark messy break up. The only problem […]
The City & Horses – Little Finland
For the first couple of minutes nothing entirely remarkable happens on ‘Little Finland’. Surprising then that by the end you could easily be welling up such is the powerful sense of emotion that permeates. The City & Horses is the […]
Fanfarlo – Fire Escape
This could be the product of a union between a gorky zygotic mynci and a super furry animal but for some reason they don’t come from Wales in the slightest. In fact the 12 armed creature that goes by the […]
Thirteen Senses – The Invitation
{album review written in 2005, pulled from the indiecater archives, rated 3/5} The year is 2005 and breakthrough bands are heading in one of two well-defined directions. The new romantic wave has been plundered to varying degrees of success by […]
Brian – Understand
I taped this song off the radio about 15 years ago (check the wiki entry for cassette tape kids) and despite many years of searching in all of Dublin’s second hand record stores I have been unable to capture the […]
The Rosebuds – Blue Bird
Before folk enthusiasts get too excited ‘Nights of the Furies’ has absolutely nothing to do with Davey Arthur and his mates whipping up a storm with several Guinness fuelled ballads. Instead it marks the return of the duo known as […]
Let's Go Sailing – Icicles
If summer fails to arrive on our shores maybe we should stop complaining and move on to the next season forthwith? To help out here is a band from a sunny clime who sing about one of winters tiny miracles. […]
Terrene – Fifty-One
If only a band existed that distilled the best bits (you know the bits I mean, they’re all over your CD compilations) from the Shins, the Apples in Stereo and Built to Spill and in the process arrived at a […]
Radar Bros. – To Remember
Jim Putnam and his cohorts are entering the final stages of recording their new album, the follow up to 2005’s ‘The Fallen Leaf Pages’. That album received a mixed reaction, the fans hailed its languid charm while the detractors pointed […]
Ronderlin – Way To Be
You’ve probably guessed by now that this blog is partial to the odd slice of Swedish indie pop. Bands from that neck of the woods generally come equipped with pantry sized sunny melodies and more often than not spring from […]
Engine Alley – Song For Someone
I often wonder how bands who existed before the internet might have fared if they had muscled in on the affections of the blogosphere. The trail of dead bands with potential to burn is long and disturbing. Kilkenny’s Engine Alley […]
Brian – You Don't Want A Boyfriend
As promised the story behind Brian’s ‘You Don’t Want A Boyfriend’ by its creator Ken Sweeney. The song was released as a single in the early 90′s on Detzi Records. You can buy the single for £90 here. Eat your […]