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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 […]
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 […]
After a couple years’ break, Alvvays are reviving their holiday hometown stand tradition – from two nights at the Danforth in 2015, up to five nights at the Mod Club in 2017, another five at The Danforth in 2018, and back down to two nights at the much bigger History – starting tomorrow. Similarly, I […]
In between the release of their 2017 masterwork III and last year’s För Allting, Swedish dream-punks Makthaverskan kept pretty quiet, save for the release of a single 7″ in January of 2019 with “Demands”/”Onkel”. It was described at the time by their label as: The A-side is the band in classic form: jangly guitars, memorable […]
Simon Rowe’s shoegaze and dreampop credentials are unassailable, having been guitarist in both Chapterhouse and Mojave 3, and while it’s been some time since his guitar has been heard from, he’s preparing his solo debut Everybody’s Thinking for release at the very break of the new year, January 4, 2023. The official word on the […]
Copenhagen’s Lowly have announced details of Keep Up The Good Work, the band’s third record and the follow-up to 2019’s Hifalutin. Crafted during the isolation of pandemic lockdowns, the band describes the headspace of writing it as: We know each other really well after 8 years as friends, colleagues and collective creators. We know what […]
A State Of Grace, the first new record from The House of Love in nine years, arrives this Friday so let’s go back to one of the more under-appreciated of their wholly under-appreciated discography. Most of the praise is given to either one of the first two self-titled albums, colloquially called Creation or Fontana, for […]
After waiting six years for Melody’s Echo Chamber’s second album Bon Voyage – a record which arrived in 2018 with a seeming tone of finality and farewell – fans have been blessed this year with not only a third record in the lovely Emotional Eternal, but now a second release that everyone knew existed but […]
Last week, Warpaint rolled out another video from Radiate Like This – a strange and compelling clip summed by by director Jim Hosking thusly: ’Hips’ has a scuttling intensity to it. It sounds like someone desperately trying to find something. Or at least that’s what it seemed to me. I listened to it repeatedly and […]
