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I appreciate how the automatic subtitles for this one on YouTube open with “Pensive post-punk music”. Yes, it is. Happy Valentine’s Day from The Cure! The third single from their 1989 opus Disintegration is probably one of their most famous and beloved, and was maybe the first Cure song I ever heard. It remains one […]
Still Corners have undergone a number of transformations over their fifteen-plus years, from a band to a duo, and shifting from cinematic psychedelica to synth-forward dreampop to dusty Americana. I prefer some phases over others, but as they’re always centred around Tessa Murray’s breathy vocals and Greg Hughes’ atmospheric guitarwork, there’s usually something to fit […]
After well over a decade of well-earned retirement, Siouxsie Sioux has announced her return to the stage this year with a smattering of shows in Europe and the US, her first live appearances since participating in Yoko Ono’s Meltdown fest in 2013. Her last proper tour was in support of her first – and last, […]
A little break from the gloom of winter and late guitar heroes, courtesy of Montreal trio afternoon bike ride. Built on simple beats, gentle guitars, and sumptuous vocals, they’re an aural daydream made for lying in the grass with headphones on, staring at the clouds. Their second album glossover, follow-up to 2021’s self-titled debut, is […]
Well this turned into a bit of a time machine/rabbit hole. At the end of last year as part of their ongoing archive exhumations, Echo & The Bunnymen added this clip of Ian McCulloch playing “the greatest song ever written” solo, acoustic, backstage before a show. I was extra-excited to see that this was recorded […]
I don’t, by any means, yearn for the days when a new act could release a single song and set the blogosphere – such as it was called way back when – alight with rapturous praise. But it is nice, every now and again, to see something wholly unknown namecheck all the right influences and […]
Today is Ladytron day, with the band’s seventh album Time’s Arrow hitting stores and streaming, but amidst the rollout of the new record – including a second video for “Faces”, following “City Of Angels” in October, they found the time to add the clip for “International Dateline”, from 2005’s The Witching Hour, to their YouTube […]
Without question, studio production is a big part of the dream-pop aesthetic – all those reverbs and delays need to be managed with a deft hand – but as Mexican duo Mint Field demonstrate, sometimes stripping things down and playing in a giant outdoor ceremonial square can also yield amazing results. They released their second […]
It’s been five and a half years since the last full-length from Daughter; I’m counting the mostly-instrumental video game soundtrack Music From Before The Storm because I loved it, but if you insist on counting it a discography appendix, it’s been seven years. Either way, it’s not unusually long in this day and age, but […]
Electronic pioneer Gary Numan has long-remained one of my musical blindspots, despite his massive influence on so much of what I listen to these days. A suggestion over the holidays from one of my jam buddies that we tackle this arrangement of the classic from Replicas has taken care of that, though, as this version […]
