For the past few years Cool Sounds has been a constant running through the Aussie indie scene, a rotating cast that coalesces around songwriter Dainis Lacey. The band never quite finds a…
Last year brought a new EP from the elusive French outfit EggS, a four-cut crop of perfect jangle n’ strum that only solidified the band’s growing reputation as pop underdogs on the…
Another perfect jangler out of Baltimore’s Smashing Times today. This time the band slows the pace for a late afternoon saunter through sublime territory. “Candy Bar” falls away from some of the…
It’s always worth keeping an eye on Hobbies Galore, not only for their intriguing cross-section of releases that span the Aussie underground (Blank Realm, The Stroppies, Possible Humans, J. McFarlane’s Reality Guest)…
If you were writing about music that hit a certain psychedelic headspace in the mid aughts then it’s fair to say outside of perhaps Grouper, Emeralds was one of the dominant acts…
“Under No Nation” tipped off listeners to the new GOAT album out later this month, but this is the unimpeachable single from the album. Feeling like a Bow Wow Wow tune, albeit…
So many great records have been landing from Cole Police lately. After two collaborations already on the decks this year — To Live & Die in Space & Time with Lynn Avery…
The second single from The excellent new Gold Dust LP is one of the deepest cuts on the record. A song of self-doubt and inward reflection. The kind of song that turns…
Another heady entry to the Under the Wheels series of live recordings from Howlin’ Rain is upon us and its one of the band’s most high fidelity captures yet. Recorded live at…
A busy week for El Paraiso and specifically Martin Rude and Jakob Skøtt who had a single out with Edena Gardens yesterday. This time the pair are back into the jazz-psych bunker…
The impeccable run of acts from Curation Records continues. This time the label taps Eric Silverman for a new album of West Coast psychedelics and Canyon cooldowns. The first single embraces the…
One of the year’s best album has come by way of Nashville songwriter Lou Turner. A more meditative counterpoint to the loose indie of her band Styrofoam Winos. By contrast her solo…
A new portfolio of synth excursions arrives this week from The Advisory Circle. The longtime Ghostbox project has, like labelmates Belbury Poly, found a way to weave through the myriad genres of…
I first heard Tengger in a release from the sorely missed Beyond Beyond is Beyond label. The band, based out of the South Korean highlands, retains their tether to the natural world…
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