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Every once in a while I think about would-be supergroup Minor Victories and wonder why I didn’t love their 2016 self-titled debut more than I did. I listened to it a lot on its release, and it certainly hit a lot of sweet spots for me, but didn’t end up having the shelf life I […]
One of the great things about a band with the longevity and prolificness as Cocteau Twins is that even 25 years after they disbanded, there is still more of their music to be discovered. The flip side of that is that finding this new music can be maddening. For example, the song “Crushed”, which appears […]
When I went looking to see if there were any decent, complete Radio Dept shows on the YouTube, I did not expect to find one from Mongolia but hey – the world is a big place. The band were headlining the Playtime Festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia while on tour for their 2016 release Running Out […]
Considering how well they melded shoegaze, dreampop, krautrock, and electronic influences with an unerring pop sense, School Of Seven Bells should have gotten more love from not just me, but everyone. I mean, I did listen to and enjoy all of their records, but for whatever reason, never became one of my all-timers and whenever […]
No I haven’t watched the latest season of Stranger Things yet, but the fact that Kate Bush is having an unexpected pop cultural moment because of a sync has been inescapable this week, though I’m more taken aback by the fact that the iTunes chart is still a thing? Like people are still buying MP3s? […]
While I knew that Lush released “Hypocrite” as the first single from their third record Split – a barnburner of a track, it got radio play in those days when bands like Lush got played on the radio – I did not know that they released a second video and single that same day, May […]
It’ll be five years in September since we last got a full-length from Toronto’s Alvvays, which is kind of crazy – that’s the sort of layoff you expect from veteran artists who’ve settled into a slower pace of working rather than hungry young bands with a strong tailwind of acclaim and adulation behind them, but […]
Depending on who you ask A Spy In The House Of Love, the 1990 release from The House Of Love, is either a compilation of b-sides and rarities – this is what Wikipedia says – or the band’s unofficial third studio album – we’ll call this the Discogs reviews position. Guy Chadwick goes with the […]
After years of online neglect, The House Of Love have been doing a fine job of making themselves available, if not well-known, to the internet. Besides getting all their albums added to streaming services over the last while, they’ve been putting their videos on the YouTube… even the ones that seem to have been shot […]
Given that she is basically the patron saint of much of what this site is about, I’d be remiss to not give ink to the return of Cocteau Twins vocalist Elizabeth Fraser to the world of recorded music. Her new project Sun’s Signature is a collaboration with partner and percussionist Damon Reece, whose own resume […]
