Here we are then, another week. Let’s kick straight in to it. I’m hearing more of these nineties influenced alt-rock guitar sounds around at the moment but this album from Hurtling, just out last week is a particularly fine and catchy example of how to polish up that sound and expand outwards into dream-noise territory. …
Last Night From Glasgow – the first crowdfunded not-for-profit record label – is out for disruption by working ethically with artists, calling out exploitative practices, and with ambitions to shake up as much of the industry as it can. Label head Ian Smith talks to Popoptica about what’s wrong with the music industry and how …
While bands best known for their nineties output reforming and having another crack while surfing the wave of nostalgia is nothing new the return of cult faves Salad is particularly pleasing, especially when album The Salad Way is packed with so much good esoteric indie rock. Artist: Salad Album: The Salad Way Label: Three Bean …
Formats have long informed or influenced the way we listen to music but while more than 20,000 songs are uploaded to Spotify every day vinyl and cassette sales are seeing a resurgence – so, is technology really changing how we listen to music? These days music has become ubiquitous. On Spotify alone there are now …
Power pop blasts of complex feelings set to scuzzy guitar and juddering time signatures may not be anything new but this 2015 album from supergroup (yeah, we said supergroup) Upset has become a firm favourite with us, and remained a highlight of the genre. Artist: Upset Album: ’76 Label: Lauren Records Year of release: 2015 …
There is something about the changing season, as leaves colour their way toward falling and the morning’s freeze our breath into clouds, which makes orchestrated dreampop full of pastorals and a dose of melancholy the perfect soundtrack. Christians and Lions fit that bill pretty well with new release Young Familiar. Artist: Christians and Lions Album: …
There’s a lot of thinking being done (by me) at the moment about digital and analogue impacts on music, as a listener and (less so) as a musician. This thinking surfaced the need to hear again the Tell Me I Can Fix This On My Own album from Deerful, so here we are with a …
It’s a Tuesday in October. It has dawned in gloriously sharp blue edged with soft yellow but it is the sort of day where regrets could still ambush you at any moment. Warding off the threat with Turtle Taxi, the second album from the brilliant Suggested Friends, which was released last week. Artist: Suggested Friends …
Having had a reissue over the summer and about to be played in full on The Bluetones’ UK tour in November, we take another listen to their third album Science & Nature for our Monday morning Dawn Chorus. Artist: The Bluetones Album: Science & Nature Label: Mercury Year of release: 2000 Genre: Indie rock, alt-pop …
Following a trilogy of albums on the subject of grief musician Grawl!x – collaborating with Umbilica – has now turned their attention to exploring gender, feminism, and identity. Epicene: having characteristics of both sexes or no characteristics of either sex; of indeterminate sex. Not one for shying away from subjects so big and universal …