If you haven’t heard of Melody’s Echo Chamber you’ve been living under a rock. And while it’s cold, dark and probably very boring under there, multi-instrumentalist Melody Prochet makes for a world of warming, lurid, Summer pop. Her eponymous debut album, produced by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, serves up …
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Tags: interview, Kevin Parker, Liverpool Sound City, Melody Prochet, melody's echo chamber, tame impala
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Seattle’s Peter Michel – who works under the moniker, Hibou – forges driving, motorik guitar odysseys imbued with the expansive romance of the open road. His recently released single Glow/Hollow brings to mind the cyclical jangles of DIIV‘s Oshin or Wild Nothing‘s Gemini, but on a far …
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Tags: Craft Spells, diiv, Glow, Hibou, Hollow, Oshin, Peter Michel, Seattle
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Something disturbingly mathematical this way comes. Ethereal break-beat and rushing saccharine shoegaze of this magnitude is no accident. This record has been scientifically manufactured; a thousand electronic scrawls condensed into a sonic torrent of gigabytes and nanoseconds, orchestrated through a million synthesizers, levers, pedals and switches, magnified and purified and …
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Tags: a long way to fall, broken world, her and the sea, the weight of darkening skies, ulrich schnauss
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Allah-Las are a psych rock band who formed in Los Angeles back in 2008, priding themselves on their LA-centric, geographically enhanced laid-back style. Having released their debut EP Tell Me (What’s On Your Mind) earlier this year to rave reviews and the impressive approval of Patrick Campbell-Lyons, Allah Las …
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Tags: album, allah-las, busman's holiday, byrds, catamaran, ela nevega, fyf fest, love, patrick campbell-lyons, sacred sands, tame impala, tell me (what's on your mind), the kinks, The Rolling Stones
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With the release of their debut single ‘Drag/Selfless’ through Kissability and Transgressive last week, Alex Cull caught up with Liverpudlian lo-fi indie rockers Death at Sea to wax lyrical about cassette releases, the festival circuit and Pavement.
First off, tell us a bit about yourselves: how did you all …
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Tags: Brixton Academy, Cardiff, Cheetahs, Death at Sea, DIY, download, drag, jen long, Kissability, liverpool, Ninetails, Pavement, Pixies, Selfless, SWN, T in the park, towns, Transgressive, Yuck
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London In Stereo selects the best gigs in the city this week, including headliners like Why?, Star Slinger, and Shinies.
London In Stereo’s Gigs Of The Week
Why? // NZCA/Lines // Young Fathers – Electric Ballroom – Tuesday 9th October
Not only is this awesome because we get to see …
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Tags: angel haze, birthdays, bobby tank, carousels, concerts, electric ballroom, gig listings, gigs, gorgeous bully, Koko, live, london in stereo, Monki, Nzca/Lines, shinies, Star Slinger, why?, young fathers
Posted in Dance, Do Not Miss This, Electronica, Embrace the Weekend, Experimental, Gigs, Indie, Music, New Age, News!, Pop, producer, Shoegaze, Singer Songwriter, Synth Pop | No Comments »
Just like the juicy slices of neon watermelon atop some trippy murky-coloured water marble depicted on the cover of Peace’s debut EP, the four tracks contained within are individual segments of tasty psychedelia.
The Birmingham foursome have come true on the mass excitement that greeted their initial online demos and …
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Tags: 1998 delicious, bblood, binary finary, Birmingham, bloodshakes, california daze, delicious, ep, Foals, ocean's eye, peace, psychedelia, Total Life Forever, watermelon
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Apart from the ‘90s teenage alt rockers and hardcore fans, many still haven’t heard that much from Dinosaur Jr. And if you’re one of the non-music nerds, you may be slightly familiar with the 1994 song, ‘Feel The Pain’. If you’re still blank, it’s never too late to discover a …
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Tags: '90s, 1990s, 99 red balloons, almost fare, Dinosaur Jr., don't pretend you didn't know, feel the pain, goldfinger, grunge, i bet on sky, i know it so well, j mascis, lou barlow, mosh pit, murph, pierce the morning rain, power chord, Rude, ska punk, stick a tow in it, watch the corners
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Sanzhi is in Taiwan, and there is some quite interesting information you can read about the place here.
The mysterious resort inspires the name of an equally elusive new band who have not really put out much music – and even when they do, they keep taking it down. …
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Tags: elusive, ex factor, lauryn hill, mysterious, peter, resort, san zhi, sanzhi, Sebright Arms, SO SOS OS OS OSOSSO MYSTERIOUS, suraya, taiwan, why?
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Swim Deep look like they’ve stepped out of a ‘90s Cameron Crowe slacker flick to lounge on your sofa and flip dejectedly through your magazines. Beyond the ripped denim and oversized Nirvana tees, though, they’re ambitious little buggers. New song ‘Honey’, all lumbering grunge bass line and chiming …
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Tags: austin williams, Birmingham, cameron crowe, cavan mccarthy, charlie hugall, chess club records, chris brown, fancy studios, Florence and the Machine, higgy, honey, jaws, JLS, nice wine, oversized nirvana tees, peace, pissing around in your mate's room, RCA, sony, Soundcloud, swim deep, zach robinson
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