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The stylish past: Cosmic Crooner and Pom Poms review
February 28, 2022
Pom Poms – Desperate Love
Genre: Surf Rock, Garage Rock, Dream Pop
Similar artists: Lana Del Rey, Kate Clover, The Unloved, Nancy Sinatra
The past always seemed to look better from the rearview mirror. Similarly, the improbably future holds a certain…
Personal invite: Martin Rubashov and lucas stern review
January 31, 2022
lucas stern – poet
Genre: Slowcore, Shoegaze, Dream Pop
Similar artists: alex g, duster, fog lake, jagger finn, alicks
For better, or, for worse, the way that one speaks is important. At least, it is if they’re determined to convey their ideas with any…
World is not enough: Sound Furies and Tired Cossack review
January 3, 2022
Tired Cossack – Wasted
Genre: Lo-fi Rock, Indie Rock
Tired Cossack embraces the lull of perpetual anxiety on the single Wasted.
Rock can’t swing the way it did in its earliest days. It’s not as some would have you believe. Rock music hasn’t…
Once upon an autumn season: Brett Newski and Josh Fudge review
November 20, 2021
Josh Fudge – Feel Like
Genre: Bedroom / Lo-fi Pop, Indietronica, Dream Pop
Josh Fudge makes low-key psychedelic music for a new age of sensorial distortion, one in which the whole world is involved.
There will come a day soon enough where your average…
Tender pop embrace: Sophie Powers and Wave System review
November 20, 2021
Wave System – Dedicated To the One I Love
Genre: Slowcore, Pop Rock, Dream Pop
With Dedicated To the One I Love, Wave System have created the kind of song that plays over flashbacks and scenes where the time machine has just been used.
Did the singers…
Heads off, toes forward: Aggressive Soccer Moms and Bleeder reviewed
September 29, 2021
Bleeder – Swallowing Sound
Genre: Post-Punk, Shoegaze, Alternative Rock
Similar artists: The Cure, The National, Joy Division, War on Drugs
It’s certainly amazing where life can take you. It’s also quite amazing that wherever that is, whatever…
Nightwatch: Julia Daigle and Burly Gates reviewed by Alt77
September 16, 2021
Burly Gates – 6/7
Genre: Garage Rock
Similar artists: Vundabar, Thee Oh Sees, Twin Peaks, Black Lips
We all understand the world around us by the stories we tell and the ones being told to us. This is simply how our minds work, how communities have stuck…
Future punks: Public Body and Garbanatos reviewed
September 14, 2021
Garbanotas – Hey Love
Genre: Dream-pop, Rock, Punk
There’s only so much that you can sit around playing power-chords and choppy rhythms without beginning to wonder what other sorts of sounds those instruments can produce. It’s only natural that by…
Elroy – Worth The Wait
Genre: Dream Pop, Chillwave
If nobody is going to steal my idea before I actually get the time and finances to do it, I plan to write and direct a movie consisting of vignettes of new bands arguing about what kind of music they should…