Category: indie
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 […]
The Last Names – A Rainy Night In Soho
I’ll admit it now that I wasted thousands of gallons worth of my Mam’s petrol on Dire Straits ‘Brothers In Arms’. Wasn’t that I especially liked them but they were popular, I was impressionable and Texaco’s selection of cassettes was […]
Fonda – Better Days
Given that Fonda were founded in the mid-90′s it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise when you hear their sound. And with ‘Better Days’ only appearing in 2011 it is unlikely that they are going to change tact […]
Founds – Caves
It was on an early 90′s Dave Fanning 2fm session that Dolores O’Riordan first trembled those ‘so uncertain in love’ vocals. At that point, in a pre-blogosphere-discover-everything-that-ever-banged-a-saucepan age, it sounded like nothing else around and her fragily added to the […]
Woodsman – All Tangled Up
An instrumental in the alternative sphere is so often confined to the grandeur of a post-rock epic. There are exceptions of course, but it takes something great to camouflage the lack of human voice. So we hereby award greatness on […]
The Bird Day – Better or Worse
Portland has consistently forged an identity as a centre of cool new music and for a city with a population of about half the size of Dublin it certainly punches above its weight. So it’s probably not all that surprising […]
[Interview] Winter Villains
Apologies if we are beginning to sound a little tired in our never ending praise of Cardiff’s Winter Villains, but as you know we’re helpless when something this good attracts our attention. The band have appeared quite a few times […]
Grizzly Bear – Yet Again
A Grizzly Bear record doesn’t belong in a fleeting attention span, pick-and-mix iTunes world. That’s because their records require time to extract the goodness from within. The casual listener might be intrigued at the slow moving parts, the delicate instrumentation, […]
The Frank & Walters – Funky Cold Medina
It was never going to trouble the Billboard charts in the same fashion as Tone Lōc’s 1989 original but then the Frank & Walters weren’t altogether serious about eclipsing it anyway. Despite becoming a firm live favourite ‘Funky Cold Medina’ […]
DIIV – How Long Have You Known
I’ve sat on this for a while, it being the archetypal tune that forever finds its way onto this blog I thought that the passage of time might reduce its sweet scent and thereby send it cascading in the direction […]
The Low Lows – Elizabeth Pier
If you’re too young to have been around for Spaceman 3 or the Jesus & Mary Chain then here is some contemporary (if 2008 can indeed be called contemporary in a web of fleeting attention spans) sparkle that works off […]
Top 10 Indie Tunes That Feature Handclaps
We’ve already given you the lowdown on the top indie songs that feature whistling so why not exercise our brains a little attempting to identify the best ones that include decent hand to hand action. As it turns out the […]