The Austin trio's new record still packs the same textured musical punch, it just draws from a deeper, more vulnerable source.
After enchanting listeners with their brand of starry-eyed, 80s nostalgia on Gemini and Nocturne, Wild Nothing enter uncharted new territory on the Empty Estate EP. No longer are...
Morning. This new EP by Wild Nothing was added to Spotify with a recent update. Genre: dream pop. Enjoy! (US version here.) (Note: I didn’t write a blog post last night since I...
Still Corners' 2011 debut Creatures of an Hour introduced listeners to a band who built their kingdom on the smallest of details. More
Hello. Yes, I’m a dream pop fan. And yes, it’s no big surprise that I took a liking to the new album by Still Corners. Read some reviews and enjoy! (Version for FR, GB and IE here...
Good evening. The new EP by Star Horse is a must listen for dream pop aficionados. Enjoy! Star Horse – Lust Filed under: 2013, Pop
Howdy. The new album by Young Galaxy is produced by Dan Lissvik and I really like the sound. Genre: electronic/pop. Read some positive reviews and enjoy! (Version for UK listeners...
After scrapping their first effort, No Joy finally follow-up their debut with an ambitious, eccentric record.
Hi. There was just a Spotify update and here is the new album by No Joy. Genre: shoegaze. Enjoy! (US release date is tomorrow.) No Joy – Wait to Pleasure Filed under: 2013, Rock
Montreal’s No Joy are back with “Hare Tarot Lies,” a lighter, brighter take on Jasamine White-Gluz and Laura Lloyd’s signature lush, mellow sounds. The glistening, echoing new...
Bored Nothing is the brainchild of Melbourne musician Fergus Miller. He's been recording most of his songs at home on a simple four track recorded, combining influences of '90s...
Howdy folks. If you are in the mood for some sweet indie pop, I have something special for you. Their last album came out in 1999 and now they are back with a new album. Enjoy The...
Trevor Powers doesn't come off as older and wiser than his 23 years: just look at any picture of him, with his slight build and cherubic mop of curls, or take one listen to his...
A delicious collage: provocative, allusive and consistently engaging.
Good evening. The new album by Youth Lagoon was added to Spotify earlier today*. Genre: experimental pop. Enjoy! (*Note: I wasn’t expecting this one until next week, but hopefully...
Youth Lagoon, the project of Idaho-native Trevor Powers, made an explosive debut onto the indie scene in 2011 with the release of the self-recorded debut album The Year of...
There's something very rundown about the music Thomas Meluch makes under his Benoît Pioulard alias. Not just in its emotional content-- although there are plenty of allusions to...
Morning friends. The excellent new album by Benoît Pioulard is recommended listening for sure. Genre: ambient/electronic/pop. Read some positive reviews and enjoy! Benoît Pioulard...
In 2010, Raphaelle Standell-Preston and Alexander Cowan spent a couple of months wandering around Central America, and when they came back they made an EP that sounded like an...
Good evening. This intriguing album, released back in March, was recently added for me. Genre: electronic. Enjoy Blue Hawaii! (Note: Not yet available for Icelandic listeners...
It's hard to determine what the end result of Canadians BRAIDS' 2011 charm offensive on the UK was, given that they've not really returned to finish the job yet. Whether they were...
Blue Hawaii are an interesting case for the creeping influence of electronic music. The Montreal duo's last few releases of wispy folk-pop featured synthesizers, but they still...
Frames a time of warmth and novelty, featuring dense female harmonies, tape saturated synths, guitars and drum machines.
An impressively bold debut from Norwegian symphonic pop troupe ends up getting weighed down by its own ambition.
A few months ago, when Young Dreams covered a song by former tourmates Tame Impala, they renamed it “Feels Like We Only Go Bachwards”. The pun spoke volumes. Young Dreams are...
Morning. The charming debut album by Golden Grrrls is another very recent addition to Spotify. Genre: indie pop. Read this review and enjoy! (US version here.) Golden Grrrls...
The opening track of Golden Grrrls self-titled debut, “New Pop,” is a jam-and-a-half. Short, sassy, and full of sharp, buzzy fun, “New Pop” is filled to the brim with melodic...
Remember how the internet was supposed to make albums extinct? Around the turn of the century, serious-minded pop scholars were telling us that listeners would stop caring about...
Chilly dance-pop with a bassline that bumps your intestines like a dodgy school lunch
Hey again. The new album by singer-songwriter Lisa Germano was added to Spotify earlier today. Enjoy! Lisa Germano – No Elephants Filed under: 2013, Singer-songwriter
Throughout the 1990s, Indiana songwriter Lisa Germano released a string of brilliant, incisive, criminally underheard records whose best lines landed like jokes told in airless...
Badwater, the new album by Chicago’s Speck Mountain, can’t accurately be called rock. The band has in the past referred to its own output as “ambient soul”. Badwater, however...
VINYL FORMAT. 180 gram LP version with CD. "This record is a collection of songs having come through a quite difficult period of my life, the trilogy of records that came before...
This record is a collection of songs having come through a quite difficult period of my life, the trilogy of records that came before this one (The End of Trying, The North Green...
Hello. The excellent new album by Widowspeak was just added to Spotify. Genre: dream pop/shoegaze. Enjoy! (US version here.) Widowspeak – Almanac Filed under: 2013, Pop, Rock
Psychedelically inclined for directionless road-trips; windswept and forlorn for solo, late-night listening; alluring enough for inclusion on romantic mixtapes.
Hi there. From a very recent Spotify update comes the new album by Memory Tapes. Genre: electronic/pop. Read some reviews and enjoy! (Note: I’ll be back tonight with another...
Dayve Hawk, aka Memory Cassette, aka Memory Tapes, has made his name over the past four years doing essentially the exact same thing as Toro Y Moi but making no attempt to shake...
Imagine a dance album where every track has something in it that's guaranteed to clear a dance floor. In both form and tone, the third studio album from Memory Tapes, Grace...
Dayve Hawk’s third album as Memory Tapes is indeed both graceful and confusing, but don’t let that spoiler stop you there. At six tracks but nearly forty minutes in length, Grace...
You can't keep a good narrative down: chillwave has been a reliable punchline the last couple of years even though most of its biggest targets have refused to cooperate. Toro Y...
Hi there. Let’s start the month with the elegant new album by Mexican band Hello Seahorse! It was added to Spotify some weeks back. Genre: dream pop. Enjoy! Hello Seahorse...
Magma Mondays, the latest effort from Detroit's dozy house experimentalist Coyote Clean Up (a.k.a. Ice Cold Chrissy), is glazed in bleary reverb and gauzy synths. On "Sowet Sunset...
School of Seven Bells' 2012 LP Ghostory was loosely structured around the character Lafaye, who finds herself consistently confronted by ghosts, but not of the "boo!" variety. For...
On the opening, titular track of School of Seven Bells’ latest EP, vocalist Alejandra Deheza commands the listener to “Put. Your. Sad. Down.” Upon first listen of the dreamy...
Teen Daze’s The Inner Mansions is an almost unbearably lush collection of dance-pop draped in synthesizer gauze. It’s described as a more spiritual and introspective record for...
Teen Daze's second album of 2012 and latest submission to the chillwave canon lacks a fair bit of heart and soul.
Often children are taught to use “memory palaces”: an imaginary place built in one’s imagination to hold specific details or ideas that one needs to remember. When you need to...
Hi. Is it November already? That was one of the quickest Octobers of my life. Anyhow, here is an EP by Star Horse from last month. Genre: dream pop/shoegaze. Enjoy! Star Horse...
From the Beach Boys to Dr. Dre, from War to X, from Guns N' Roses to Kendrick Lamar, southern California has inspired more great driving music than any other part of the country...
Living among industrial wasteland and urban desolation, Kyle J. Reigle looked to the woods outside his Buffalo apartment for escape. Cemeteries is the dream pop transmitting over...
Olympia/Seattle's Naomi Punk are at least partly inspired by their grunge forbearers. The genre's basic elements are well-represented: The sludgy erosion over the guitars, the...