Ride – “Monaco”

We’re two weeks out from the release of Ride’s new album Interplay, which means it’s time for another sneak peak. This time, it’s “Monaco”, which further affirms the new record will be upbeat and synthy and I am here for it. Mark Gardener recently gave an expansive interview to Under The Radar about the coming […]

DIIV – “Soul-Net”

Brooklyn’s DIIV announced their fourth album Frog In Boiling Water – first since 2019’s Deceiver – last week with the chilled-out dirge “Brown Paper Bag”, but they first previewed the new record way back in October while in the midst of their tour supporting Depeche Mode. They dropped the website soul-net.co, a Geocities-saluting doomscrolling eyesore, […]

きのこ帝国 -「海と花束」(Kinoko Teikoku – “Umi to Hanataba”)

Besides the fact that they’re one of the more internationally beloved and missed Japanese indie rock bans of the last while, any discussion around Kinoko Teikoku inevitably centers around their shift from Japanese indie UK.Project/Daizawa to global major EMI with 2015’s 猫とアレルギー (Nekoto Allergie), and the inevitable softening/broadening of their sound from their original shoegazey […]

Della Zyr – “봄: 별은 노​래​한​다 (Constellation​’​s Song)”

There’s anti-marketing, and then there’s what Seoul’s Della Zyr is doing. If you were to stumble across her YouTube channel, you’d find a handful of videos of a young woman playing shoegaze cover songs in her bedroom; excellently done, certainly, but not unusual in 2024. Her Instagram offers somewhat more; it’s only four posts deep, […]