Category: alt pop

June 27, 2025 / hugger / alt pop

Lithia – Badlands

Such gentle jangling guitar swells, the kind that is a balm for even the toughest…

June 20, 2025 / hugger / alt pop

The way Lake Ruth set the tempo you just know that a cavalcade of exotic…

May 8, 2025 / hugger / alt pop

A tune with plenty of sides as it happens, an honesty, a swagger, a vulnerability…

May 1, 2025 / hugger / alt pop

There are few songs that get as personal as ‘Call it a Night’ and it…

March 6, 2025 / hugger / alt pop

Though ‘Bite Me’ is probably as fast moving as I’ve heard from Swiss chanteuse Mary…

March 4, 2025 / hugger / alt pop

There’s a really neat contrast between the distinct near tribal percussion and the lighter than…

January 31, 2025 / hugger / alt pop

There is more than a hint of experimentalism to ‘Half To Death’ but such is…

December 11, 2024 / hugger / alt pop

There’s a certain spacey surf rock escapade from San Diego’s Housewyfe, showing themselves adept at…

December 3, 2024 / hugger / alt pop

Oh psychedelia how are you, that seems to be what Tokyo’s Hamacide appear to be…

November 26, 2024 / hugger / alt pop

Neat progression that is for sure, easy going shuffle with something spacey but Duz Mancini…

November 25, 2024 / hugger / alt pop

Such a tidy approach from Bomethius (Jonathan Hodges) on this occasion, a song that has…

November 21, 2024 / hugger / alt pop

There is no doubting there is a bright eyed manner to ‘The Faithful Heart’, most…