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Existing as a sort of perfect hybrid of post-punk and dreampop served up with “anthemic” turned to 10, Gothenberg’s Makthaverskan didn’t make any videos for their last full-length, 2017’s III, but did record a wonderfully low-budget two-song session for their label that served the same purpose. They followed up with a two-song 7″ for “Demands” […]
The last preview track from English trio Drug Store Romeos’ debut album offered a pretty much on-the-nose job of letting you know what to expect from The world within our bedrooms when it finally came out last Friday: Hazy pop given form by Broadcast-y keyboards and personality by singer Sarah Downie’s wispy vocals, reminiscent of […]
Pale Saints are a band I started out with backwards from conventional wisdom, finding a copy of their third and final album – 1994’s Slow Buildings – in a pawn shop CD bin in the mid-’90s. It’s not the one most would recommend since by this point, Ian Masters – the band’s founder and vocalist […]
Describing a band as sounding like they were put together in a lab seems like it’s some kind of put-down, but in the case of Malmö’s Echo Ladies, it’s the highest praise. Think of The Radio Dept if they leaned into the fuzziest aspects of Lesser Matters. Their debut self-titled EP and full-length follow-up Pink […]
Peruse any list of “essential post-punk bands” and at some point, probably at least halfway down the list, you’ll probably find an entry for Watford’s Sad Lovers & Giants. Find a list for “most overlooked post-punk bands”, and they’ll probably be near the top. Whatever the reasons for their under-appreciatedness, lack of quality is not […]
In this day and age where everything exists first digitally and basically in perpetuity, rarities aren’t really a thing. But in feeling like posting a Hatchie song, I opted to go for one that only barely exists physically and thus is sort of an inverse rarity. “Adored” was released as part of Adult Swim’s 2018 […]
I Break Horses have shape-shifted a fair bit over the course of their three albums, albeit without ever moving too far from the lush synthesized dream-pop at their core. And while I’ve been with them through it all, I still go back to their 2011 debut Hearts the most – it being the lushest and […]
I’ve been winding my way through the recently-release World of Wong Kar Wai box set, and on re-watching Chungking Express, was reminded that I always meant to do a proper deep dive into the mid-90s relationship between Faye Wong and the Cocteau Twins, two artists who wouldn’t seem to have anything in common – one […]
For the third part in my “listen to Lowly” series, I’ll not post another of the advance singles from their latest album, 2019’s Hifalutin. Instead, I’ll share the three gorgeous short films – ‘video’ seems so insufficient – they released to go with it. The Danish band’s third record shed some of the immediacy of […]
I don’t recall exactly what it was that endeared me to It Hugs Back at first. It might have been the lo-fi fuzzy bounce of the lead single from their 2009 debut album Inside Your Guitar, or the fact that 4AD sent it to me as a 7″ single. Yes, vinyl is a shortcut to […]
