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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 […]
When Warpaint announced details of their fourth album Radiate Like This last month, I was a little surprised to not see “Lilys” in the tracklist, as was the first sign that the band were finally back in action after they wound down touring in support of Heads Up in late 2019. The song – and […]
I’m a little ashamed it’s taken over a year for me to acknowledge one of the best purveyors of dreampop in the business hereabouts, but with Beach House releasing their eighth – and maybe best? – new record Once Twice Melody out today, here’s some Beach House love. “Alien” dates to the sessions for 2018’s […]
It’s been a minute or two since I’ve done one of these iterations posts – they do take some time do, you know – but I’ll ease back into it with one of the landmark songs of shoegaze and dreampop, arguably Ride’s signature song, “Vapour Trail”. Written and sung by Andy Bell, it was the […]
Yesterday, February 13, marked the 27th anniversary of the release of Belly‘s second album King, and this surprises me a little bit. I remember very clearly walking to the HMV at University Plaza during my freshman year at Waterloo and buying my copy on CD the day of release, but I always thought that it […]
For those keeping track, that’s three much-anticipated new records just announced in the past week coming out at the end of April/start of May. Following news of new releases from Hatchie and Melody’s Echo Chamber, Los Angeles’ Warpaint yesterday released details of their fourth full-length and first since 2016’s Heads Up. Radiate Like This will […]
I imagine the early aughts were an odd time to be a small, independent band. On one hand, the internet and its potential to reach a massive audience, had largely arrived. On the other, the technological infrastructure to support media, e-commerce, and everything besides just words and pictures on a screen, had frustratingly not. All […]
And while I don’t want this site to become a, well, echo chamber for press releases, yesterday’s unexpected announcement of a third Melody’s Echo Chamber record is too good not to share. Considering the drama around the release of Bon Voyage, I half-expected that to be the last we heard from Melody Prochet for a […]
