Category: indie
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 […]
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 […]
Elephant – Skyscraper
This is perfectly pitched for Sunday evenings, a rambling yet distinct Beach House type stroll from London duo Elephant. Made up of the previously amorous couple of Amelia Rivas and Christian Pinchbeck Elephant have had a tempestuous history despite only […]
Eagulls – Moulting
You know for a long time this was the way music used to be. Straight-ahead, not particularly clever in the lyric department, with giant chords and a vocalist who threatened to shred his vocal chords because he wanted to give […]
Teleman – Cristina
What is it going to take to propel Thomas Sanders to something approximating stardom? Not his talent alone because to date even that colossus has failed. Tap Tap, Pete & The Pirates and even our meagre effort (listen below) have […]
Locas In Love – Bushaltestelle (The Bus Stop Song)
I hope the realisation that this is actually a cover doesn’t take from the pleasure it is currently affording you. Look at it this way, now you have 2 favourite new bands to salivate over. First there is the Nebraska […]
Dede – This Time
Despite an almost overwhelming sense of destiny it looks like Dede (Dede Reynolds and her partner Tim) have moved on to a new project called Tiny Hearts. Seems BBC1 radio have picked up on them so maybe it’ll be second […]
The Wind Whistles – Bats In Flight
How nice it is to find labels like Aaahh Records who go about their business with the minimum of fuss despite a seam of talent in their locker. Bright sparks like the zany Canadian duo the Wind Whistles who appear […]
Sleeper – Vegas
Louise Wener really was a perfect 90′s frontwoman. Ballsy and opinionated she was the archetypal loose canon (with a good deal of substance behind her utterances it must be said) whose confidence in her band’s music was only matched by […]
Angelica’s Elegy – Rapid Changes
It has been a few years since the great Bergen breakout and since that intriguing turn of musical events not a great deal has surfaced from Norway. That is until Trondheim 3-piece Angelica’s Elegy shuffled into view quite recently. Their […]
Carroll – Lead Balloon
The word Carroll drums up lots of memories, a hotel manager with a keen line in sarcasm for one and the cigarettes of the same plural name for another. Given the title of this song the latter was particularly prevalent […]
Alex Bleeker And The Freaks – Don’t Look Down
As bassist with one of the best indie guitar bands out there, Real Estate, Alex Bleeker should have plenty of opportunities to see his lightbulbs turn into winning tunes. Sometimes though it’s best to break away and plough your own […]