Category: Track reviews
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Lois Leon – Slow Motion
It’s been a while since I have written about Lois Leon on here. Last time out was February, and the excellent What Do I, which totally surprised me (and still does) by how far it burrowed into my brain. Anyway, here we are in November and yesterday saw the release of her third single of…
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Peter Cat – Starchamber
As they say in awful American films, it’s been a minute, but a couple of years ago every other piece I published seemed to be about Peter Cat. And so it is that this one is too. A quick recap: it started with impeccable glam pop with a penchant for the strange, dialled the strange…
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Lois Leon – What Do I
What Do I has an understated, laid-back and loose swagger that calls to mind a number of mid-90s UK bands, from the likes of Elastica, Sleeper, and Lush through to The Bends-era Radiohead. Starting out quite soft and seductive and gradually unfurling into a wall of noise, there are some interesting choices in the melody that…
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Pushpin – Sequoia
I wrote about Pushpin a couple of years ago. Their stuff was pretty wild. Dense. Relentless. All over the place, in a good way. In a great way actually. Scrolling through my Instagram feed today I saw they have a new track out. It’s called Sequoia and you should listen to it. There’s something really…
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Izzie Yardley – All We Have
2020 was a strange time. It’s easy to reduce all of it down to a banal sentence or two – and it’s amazing how soon we all do, and have done – but, wow, it was pretty weird. Anyway, this post isn’t about all of that. September 2020 was the first time that I heard…
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Sunflower Thieves – Lichtenberg Figures
‘You were struck by lightning, walking in the rain to your car / and when you awoke, the lightning left a beautiful scar‘ So begins the immaculate Lichtenberg Figures: Sunflower Thieves’ second single of 2022, arriving hot on the heels of January’s I Don’t Know Why, and November’s Sirens. As well as being a great…
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Dunebug – Lie to Me
About two months ago I exchanged a few emails with the rather brilliant Chi Limpiroj, otherwise known as the London-based songwriter/purveyor of exquisite dreampop: Dunebug. I’d discovered her music sometime last year and had contacted her regarding the possibility of anything new being on the horizon. As luck would have it, yes, she was finishing…
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New track: Pushpin – Garden Cities of Tomorrow
What a band. If there’s one thing I’ve learnt over the last year of covering new music it’s that there’s a staggering amount of great music out there just mooching along under the radar. Even so, every once in a while you still find yourself taken aback by the sheer brilliance of something that lands…
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New track: Genevieve Miles – Storm Before
It’s been a few months since I (and many others) fell hook, line, and sinker for Genevieve Miles’ last release – the brilliant Magic Man / Sad Song – and so it was a pleasant surprise to find a new track tucked away in my inbox this week. Nicer still to find that it’s another…
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Girl From Winter Jargon – Song for the Waves / Matilda
Since starting this blog I’ve yet to encounter another piece that has kicked, screamed and fought as much against being compiled as this one has. Thwarted by a comedy of errors ranging from unseen emails languishing in junk folders – with both parties wary of sending potentially irritating follow-ups – to delays caused by two…
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