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. …
Berlin has long been associated with musical experimentation – from Bowie to Iggy Pop, to the Techno scene the city’s music history is interwoven with its social one. Australian Eilis Frawley has been living in Berlin for the last few years and has made it her home while working on her solo material, as well …
As part of our Inner World series we talk to Piney Gir about mental health in the music industry and how she’s creating a support network for her scene, as well as her creative nature as a songwriter. “I have had a warm, wet, melancholy blanket shrouding me for as long as I can …
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. …
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: …