After being named among the Top 100 Acts at SXSW in 2011, Small Black have been on a mission to create a more wholesome sound and possibly re-create themselves in the process. The synth-pop that garnered attention on the group’s earlier EPs back in 2009 and 2010 is slightly different …
This week has seen our current BOTW – Portland lo-fi indie trio, The Thermals – release their sixth album, Desperate Ground, and it’s a definite return to their raucous roots. Alex Cull caught up with the group’s bassist Kathy Foster for a chat about making it to the ten-year …
Earlier this year, our current BOTW – Oregon indie-punk trio The Thermals – entered a remote Portland nature park and shot what’s certainly one of the most grisly, raucous videos we’ve seen all year here at PlanetNotion. Full of toy guns and fake – or at least that’s what we’ve …
A little over ten years ago, Thermals frontman Hutch Harris entered a small Portland studio by himself and thrashed out 13 slices of visceral, uncompromising lo-fi indie. The resulting record – which cost less than $60 to produce - More Parts per Million was an infinitely loose affair; one …
London is often viewed as the home of the best contemporary music, fashion, and culture that this sceptred isle has to offer. It must be said, however, that this view is often given by Londoners themselves and at PlanetNotion we like to remember that there is a wealth of unique …
Brought up in the lonely valleys of Wiltshire, Bristol-based Oliver Wilde creates slow-morphing, introspective folktronica from a plethora of guitar pedals, tape loops and pretty much anything else he stumbles upon. His expansive – yet distinctly lo-fi – sound worlds recall the way in which Flying Saucer Attack and Amp…
If you’re finding yourself growing weary of the rather formless British winter putting a serious dampener on your day-to-day life, we at PlanetNotion might just have the perfect antidote. First introduced to us courtesy of Bristol’s exemplary Howling Owl Records, Texan garage pop duo GALPALS are seriously over-qualified to …
Unbelievable reverb-soaked live videos in churches, garage pop from San Francisco, and the Bunker offering up ‘trashy, cymbal-heavy pop’, ‘psychedelic exploration of the synthesiser cosmos’ and ‘accessible, euphoric epics’. Phew.
I feel a poignant way to start this column would be with a reference to Embers’ recent live recording …
2012 has been the year of Splashh. In less than a year they formed and established themselves as the foremost purveyors of ‘90s psych revival – a movement won’t be fading away anytime soon. Tonight, their packed out show at the legendary 100 Club feels like the final and …
Findlay is a new female artist whose début single, ‘Your Sister’, is a full-on embodiment of proper gritty garage rock. You can watch the S&M-style video here (saucy) and download it for free here. Having just finished touring with #1 newcomer Jake Bugg, 2013 is bound to be a …
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