Mayors of Miyazaki – Holy Cop! Release on 3rd June 2013 via We Be Records With a name like Mayors of Miyazaki, this is a band that clearly delights in befuddlement. Just listen to the riffs that these ‘math punks’ from London have collated for their second album Holy Cop! – sometimes dizzying, occasionally discordant…
Wampire – Curiosity Released on 13th May 2013 via Polyvinyl Jeepers creepers, where’d you get those peepers? Having snagged the production duties of Jacob Portrait from band of the year (so far, at least) Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Portland duo Rocky Tinder and Eric Phipps sound like they’ve had a blissful time and created some stunners…
Vision Fortune – Mas Fiestas con el Grupo Vision Fortune Released on 13th May 2013 via Gringo Records/Faux Discx Books are great. Reading too, no question about it. We wouldn’t be here today without words on paper and the number of songs based on literature is near infinite. The Cure’s Killing an Arab, for instance,…
The Suicide of Western Culture – Hope Only Brings Pain Released on 14th March 2013 through Irregular Spanish duo strike home One casual glance at the tracklist of TSWOC’s second album gives a good idea of what lies ahead. With titles such as Remembering Better Times, When Did I Become Everything I Hate and Love…
Reason To Believe – The Songs of Tim Hardin Out now on Full Time Hobby Slide into the Dark Side. Tim who? Hardin. Nope, never heard of him. S’alright, you’re not the only one but you’ve likely heard of the artists who were inspired by him, who include Echo & The Bunnymen, Paul Weller and…
Suuns – Images du Futur Released on 5th March through Secretly Canadian Suuns’ second full-length, released via the appropriately named Secretly Canadian label (they hail from Montreal but keep mum), sees a continuation from debut Zeroes QC; one might call it a maturing. From the off, with Powers of Ten, it feels like familiar and…
Theme Park – Theme Park Released 25th February 2013 The underground scene is not unfamiliar to London band Theme Park. Or is it London band Theme Park is not unfamiliar to the underground scene? Fans of Bombay Bicycle Club and Two Door Cinema Club (why hasn’t this band renamed themselves Theme Park Club yet?) will…
Jim James – Regions of Light and Sound of God Out now on V2 “I think I’m really being sincere…. I want a new life with you”. This lyric catches the contradiction of love and how it can make you feel so certain while, at the same time, pushing you to question everything. This could…
Foxygen – We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic Out now on Jagjaguwar There are some quick and very obvious comparisons to be made with a band like Foxygen. Naturally, most of these relate to the number of nods they make to rock and pop artists of the 60s and 70s. The…
Mother Mother - The Sticks Released on 12th February 2013 via Last Gang Records In 2005, Canadian pop-folk band Mother Mother’s lead vocalist and guitarist Ryan Guldemond’s musical objective was to produce a band that would deliver vocal-driven pop music. And while the melodic complementation of his and his sister, Molly’s (Mother Mother’s female lead)…
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