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 While the group’s vocalist Nate Grace is understandably withdrawn about revealing its true intentions, describing …
In a recent chat I had with Pure X frontman Nate Grace, the Texan native told me how the trio’s sophomore record, Crawling Up the Stairs, was the result of the group “deciding to make a ‘studio album’,” and having “a lot of time to experiment and fine tune …
With Crawling Up the Stairs, the follow-up to their 2011 debut album Pleasure, Austin three-piece Pure X have truly turned the emotional pressure cooker up to boiling point. While it still retains some of the seductive qualities that laced its predecessor, it’s a far harder drink to swallow: …
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 …
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 …
With their second full-length, the expansive – and infectious as hell – ‘The Late Blue‘ currently being on repeat at Notion HQ this week (and many more before it), we asked our BOTW, Melbourne’s Gypsy & the Cat, to compile a playlist of the tracks that inspired …
The last few years seem to have churned out a lot of forgettable “and the” named bands who nearly made it, but didn’t quite. Luckily for Melbourne-based duo Gypsy & the Cat, their sophomore album, The Late Blue, shows that they deserve to join my list of actually …
It’s all new beginnings for Melbourne’s Gypsy & the Cat. The duo – comprised of former DJs Xavier Bacash and Lionel Towers – have upped sticks and are releasing their sophomore album, the meteoric ‘The Late Blue‘, on their own Alsatian Music imprint in the UK this …
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