Wishbone from Portland’s Darci Phenix is described as ‘an act of love’ and with by turns delicate and brutal fairytale-esque motifs is the folk-pop record we all need right now, out via Team Love. Artist: Darci Phenix Release: Wishbone Label: Team Love Records Released: 8 January 2021 Find it: Spotify | Bandcamp There is a …
Moor Mother and billy woods released collaborative experimental album BRASS at the tail end of 2020 – it’s our album of the week for 10 January 2021 and an enthralling experimental but meditative work you don’t want to miss. Artists: Moor Mother and billy woods Album: BRASS Label: Backwoodz Studioz Released: 24 December 2020 Find …
Recorded at their upstate New York home during lockdown garage rock duo Basic Bitches have released an album of songs inspired by the classic movies they set about watching while there wasn’t much else to do. It may have been born out of boredom but it’s damn fine garage rock meaning Go To The Movies …
We don’t really do album reviews here at Popoptica but that doesn’t stop us wanting to enthuse about the great albums we’ve been listening to. Releases have landed thick and fast throughout the summer but here’s out list of albums we’ve been loving listening to in August 2020. Popoptica albums round-up for August 2020 Paper Birch …
Recently we invited you to break out of the comfort of the familiar and discover some of the amazing new albums being put out by independent artists and labels while the world is on lockdown. The truth is our list was far from complete and we have much more to bring you – so here …
While we’re all in lockdown there’s a bushel of chain-mail like posts going around on social media. Some, undoubtedly, mine info about us and our likes, dislikes, and personal experiences. While others are collective distractions from the current situation. One which seems to be catching plenty of people’s online attention is the ’10 Albums Which …
We had a week off last week for half-term but we’re back with our morning listening now…starting with this eclectic modern pop album from Yoni Gordon which passes through the parishes of rock, Americana, and Trap for a listen full of surprises. Artist: Yoni Gordon Album: Fearless Moral Inventory Label: Self-released Year of release: 2019 …
There are albums which kick straight into you, your feelings chiming with them like a struck bell, and there are those which sit beside you and invite you to think outside of your own experience. The debut album from Jemma Freeman and The Cosmic Something does both through an astonishingly varied melodic collection of songs. …
North London’s The Leaf Library make a welcome return with second album The World is a Bell, full of warm experimental drone-pop with fantastical details with which to draw the listener in. It’s an absolute fit for this time of year as the darkness creeps in on colder air and it’s our album of the …
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. …