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. …
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 …
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 …
In our house Thursday is the hardest day…everyone is tired but the weekend still feels light years away, making it a slow-starting, introspective type of morning. The self-titled debut album from Broken Chanter is perfect for playing in solidarity before lifting us from our mire. Artist: Broken Chanter Album: Broken Chanter Label: Last Night From …
Weak autumn sunshine sidles past the clouds today and we let Evaporator, crystalline experimental electronica from collaborative project Haq, do the heavy lifting on keeping our midweek mood buoyant. Artist: Haq Album: Evaporator Label: Bearsuit Records Year of release: 2019 Genre: experimental electronica The internet, for the most part these days, is a despair-inducing sinkhole …
A beautifully blended album of styles from jazz to alt-rock in this latest release from Umbilica – Where the Land Meets the Ocean – our Dawn Chorus for Tuesday 1 October 2019. Artist: Umbilica Album: Where the Land Meets the Ocean Label: self-released Year of release: 2019 Genre: alt-rock, jazz-pop, folk-punk Stand still here, upon …