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If it wasn’t clear, the timing of Monday’s post wasn’t random as yesterday marked the official first release of Good Day Father, a new project from Catherine Wheel guitarist Brian Futter featuring vocals from Belly frontwoman Tanya Donelly. So not quite “Judy Staring At The Sun” part two, but certainly very adjacent. “Sonic Amadea” is […]
Everyone knows Rachel Goswell from Slowdive. Some also know her from Mojave 3, her post-pre-Slowdive outfit with Neil Halstead. A few also know of her as a principal in indie-supergroup Minor Victories and also The Soft Cavalry, her project with husband Steve Clarke. But not many, it seems, know her as a solo artist, and […]
The legacy of For Tracy Hyde is pretty set – they were one of the premiere Japanese indie bands, fusing shoegaze, jangle, indie, and J-pop influences into a template for a generation of bands to follow, and broke up in 2023 immediately after releasing their finest album and on the cusp (maybe) of breaking out […]
We’ve not had much news from Savages in a while, beyond updates of the members’ various solo projects which really just affirm that Savages are continuing to do nothing as a band. So a dispatch this week marking the decade anniversary of their second (and final, to date) record Adore Life was an unexpected treat, […]
I was going to say “London’s Daughter” but considering that the three members are now scattered across the globe, the geographic qualifier seems misplaced. I believe the logistics, amongst other factors, were why the band didn’t tour or play live (almost) at all for their last record, 2023’s Stereo Mind Game, which means if you […]
Since I’ve switched to Apple Music for streaming in 2022, it has been very insistent that the most appropriate autoplay selection for whatever album I’ve just finished is Beach House. And not just any Beach House song, but almost always “Space Song”. Sometimes “Myth”, sometimes “Silver Soul”, but most often is “Space Song”, and I’ve […]
Happy New Year, not only from me, but also from Parannoul who rang in 2026 with a new single. “연말 다짐” – which translates to “Year-end Resolutions” – showed up online on New Year’s Day via an Instagram story with the caption, “Happy 2026 – I Hope To Achieve Something This Year”. To imply that […]
For most of the world, December – particularly the end of December – is a dead zone for releasing new music but in Japan, it’s business as usual. Hence after a 2025 that was already busy enough with a new EP Seasons in March and album number four – White – coming out in September, […]
This was kinda going to be a holiday post but the holidays got busy, as they do, and I didn’t get around to it in time. But considering that the song – despite a certain bit of window dressing – is not a holiday song, that’s probably okay. “Red Over White” was a Siouxsie & […]
I’ve been intermittently tracking Tokyo’s KILDREN for a little while now, both because I like their music and because I’ve found their ongoing identity evolution interesting to watch. To recap, their first singles in Spring 2024 placed them firmly on the pop side of the J-gaze spectrum, but a year later they scrubbed those songs […]
