When we first asked our current BOTW, Texan shoegaze trio Pure X, to put together a compilation of the tracks that had inspired their twisting and riving second album, Crawling Up the Stairs, we never could have expected what we’d get in return. The playlist they provided us …
Born out of a period of emotional – and medical – turmoil for Pure X frontman Nate Grace, the Texan trio’s second album, Crawling Up the Stairs, can certainly feel despondent on a cursory listen, but allow it to gestate in your ears a little longer and it soon …
A brief glance over the cover art for Pure X’s recent sophomore album, Crawling Up the Stairs, reveals multiple parallel strands as to where the Texan three-piece are coming from this time around. While the group’s vocalist Nate Grace is understandably withdrawn about revealing its true intentions, describing …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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