Category: Track reviews
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Sienna Smith – Avalanche
Like most people, I kinda hate Spotify. I hate the way that it’s turned music into noise to soundtrack your bus journey, or your walk around Lidl. I hate that it’s fooled us into getting rid of all of the CDs, tapes, and records that we owned and made us pay to rent back temporary…
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Portrait Generation – Fight Or Flight
Portrait Generation are a Southend-based band that have kinda snuck up on me over the first half of the year. They first caught my ear a couple of months back with a song called “Shapeshifter” which had a really woozy and addictive guitar part that felt like it was doing unspeakable things to my brain,…
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Izzie Yardley – Domino (Punk)
I mentioned in my last post how things just fall into place. I was talking to a colleague this week about a Cardigans record called Super Extra Gravity and how much I rate both it and them in general. So, so underrated. I know they had at least one gigantic success of an album here,…
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Holly P – Little Window
I’m always telling my students that the 1990s were better. I mean, in almost every way, they were just better. Objectively so. Cars still looked like they were designed with rulers, digital cameras literally had floppy disks in them, you could play GoldenEye on the N64, and there was a lot of gunge on TV.…
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When There Were Milk Men – The Tumbledryer Babies
It feels a bit of a disservice to say that this is oddly moving, but I’ll say it anyway. I certainly don’t mean it in a bad way either. It’s factual: there’s a degree of oddness to it, and it’s moving. You get it. Anyway, like many great pop songs, it packs a lot into…
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Matti Jasu – Doing Donuts
Sometimes I wonder what the point is of writing about cool stuff you find. I wonder if anyone actually reads the words, and I certainly wonder whether anyone ever listens to the stuff little blogs like mine write about. Mostly, I find myself opening the email account linked to the blog and feeling instantly overwhelmed…
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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…
I stood up & I said yeah 