Matt Tomiak considers the wistful history of The Postal Service as he at long last watches them play live at the Brixton Academy.
If a week is a long time in politics, then The Postal Service would surely agree that a decade is one hell of a long time in …
In desperate need of an uplift this afternoon, DIANA‘s much-anticipated debut album has come as a breath of fresh air. Don’t let the name (or the picture) fool you; this Toronto outfit is actually a four piece, not one of whom is called Diana. Blowing us away with their …
Feathers had the ultimate home ground advantage when playing SXSW this year. Not only were they on their own turf of Austin, Texas, they were also playing as support to Depeche Mode – a band that their own synth pop sound is heavily indebted to. One can only assume it …
Ahead of Feathers‘ long-awaited debut full-length, the equally forward-looking and backwards-glancing ‘If All Now Here‘, finally seeing release later this month, Alex Cull caught up with the quartet’s leading lady, Anastasia Dimou, over a crackly phone line. Read on for an insight into the group’s sci-fi, dystopian …
It would be all too easy to draw a direct line between the stark, almost alien landscapes of Feathers‘ mysterious video for If All Now Here‘s first single, ‘Land of the Innocent‘, and the track’s retro sci-fi sonic bent. No, it all feels as though it …
In the Valley Below are a two piece vocal group made up of Angela Gail and Jeffrey Jacob based in LA. Their songs are a heady mix of surrealist, swirling vocals, synthesizers and a deep sexy melancholy that infuses their musical outlook. Complicated? Certainly. But also intensely listen-able (you can …
Smothering themselves in a musical aesthetic somewhere between old-world spiritualism and the sci-fi gloss of a not-so-distant future, Austin four-piece Feathers are the brainchild of New York transplant Anastasia Dimou. Forging a path somewhere between the Internet-enabled, alt-electro of Grimes and the grittier, more mechanised side of synth-pop, Feathers’ forthcoming …
Listening back-to-back to the two albums that bookend the career to date of Canada’s Young Galaxy – their self-titled 2007 debut, and this year’s Ultramarine, their fourth full-length – feels like being in the presence of two entirely separate musical entities. However, while the spacey indie-pop of the …
With their glorious fourth album, Ultramarine – a hugely visceral, romantic re-imagining of modern synth-pop – due out on Paper Bag next week, Canadian five-piece Young Galaxy gave us an insight into the record’s Swedish production, their attempts to mix up the songwriting process this time around, and why it’s …
On Young Galaxy‘s Ultramarine, an album that’s crammed full of sweetness, nostalgia and romance, there aren’t many moments as swooningly gorgeous as ‘New Summer‘. On the surface, it’s ostensibly a track about making the most of your time in this life: being carefree, savouring every moment …
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