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Reams have been written about New Order’s iconic “Blue Monday” – I did my best to collect a lot of them a couple years ago – but in honour of the song’s 40th anniversary, podcast Song Exploder has devoted an episode to the genesis of the song. There’s interviews with all the original members of […]
I didn’t realize it’d been so long since we’d heard from Sweden’s Echo Ladies – pandemics do things to one’s perception of time – but it has been five years since their 2018 debut Pink Noise and saying it out loud, well that’s far too long. So it’s great to hear them back with a […]
Beach House participated in the just-passed Spring 2023 edition of Record Store Day with Become, an EP of new material drawn from the sessions that begat last year’s Once Twice Melody. Of the five songs, the duo said: The Become EP is a collection of 5 songs from the Once Twice Melody sessions. We didn’t think they fit in […]
The Apple Music recommendation algorithm really wants me to listen to Luby Sparks. Almost without fail, whenever one of the Japanese dreampop/shoegaze albums that have been in heavy rotation for me lately wraps, it segues into a track from the Tokyo outfit’s 2018 self-titled debut. And it’s a bit of a curious choice since of […]
With six years having passed since Slowdive’s last album – a long time, certainly, but not as long as the 22 years that preceded it – there hasn’t been a lot of press around the band of late. Sure, they’ve started touring again in the past year, but really the only question anyone’s asking is, […]
It’s a good day when you’re reminded that The Clientele remain an active concern. Their last musical dispatch came in 2020 with “Orpheus Beach”, a one-off Go-Beetweens cover, so it’s a good start to the week when you receive news that they’re returning with a new album – their first since 2017’s Music For The […]
On one hand, Catherine Wheel fans have only themselves to blame for thinking the band were finally reuniting – frontman Rob Dickinson has given no signs he’s interested in giving up the world of custom luxury automobiles for the life of a touring rock band – but whoever they’ve got managing their social media accounts […]
As someone who has seen and photographed Beach House live a number of times, I find it somewhat comforting that even an outlet with the clout and resources of Pitchfork can’t get more than shadowy blurs for a lot of their footage. They recorded the entirety of the band’s show in Brooklyn on August 23, […]
Just in case you think my explorations of Asian shoegazers is limited to acts coming out of Japan, I direct you to Manic Sheep, who hail from Taipei, Taiwan. “No More Anger” was a single taken from their second album, 2016’s Brooklyn, and if the Ameri-centric album title wasn’t a tip off, there’s very little […]
Toronto’s Mother Tongues were an early discovery of this blog and the first concert I went to in over two years, in Fall 2021 during a small break in pandemic closures. They made their recorded debut in Summer of 2020 with the trippy psychedelic multi-hyphenate pop of the Everything You Wanted EP, and now return […]
