Bouncing, raucous indie-dance kicks off this debut album from French quartet, an attention grabbing and exuberant opener Shallow Goals mixes the jangling, spiky guitars with a pounding dancefloor beat and effects-heavy vocals in a Soulwax-like cocktail. Similarly Blended Colors has a racing pace, Arnaud Kermarrec-Tortorici’s vocal is frenzied, similar...
Auction for the Promise Club, a three piece from St Agnes Cornwall, comprising of Zoe White-Chambers, Perran Tremewan and Toby White-Chambers seem to have been promising their debut EP for such a long time that I was wondering if it would ever actually arrive, but here it is. Recorded...
Delightfully burbling bass, erratically barked vocals sounding like assorted karate calls kick off this LP from quarter Scandinavia. From there, as the lyrics arrive, Nondescript American Accents becomes a lively, pop mannered indie tune in the manner of Vampire Weekend at their most buoyant and doe-eyed. The guitars are...
This new EP from Brazilian Gus Garcia opens with the bittersweet folk-pop of Clocks and Crocodiles which combines a rousing Sondre Lerche-like acoustic-lead instrumentation with a drawled Steve Harley-esque vocal. Much like Garcia’s previous EP Many Hiding Places it’s like staring into a magic eye picture trying to spot...
Sean Bw Parker is a curious proposition in a culture dominated by vacuous celebrity and materialist trash, one time London songwriter Sean BW Parker stands on a different island of Istanbul in Turkey looking on with colossal wryness and cynicism at the increasing shallowness of it all. His band’s music is loose...
Sophomore album from Leeds-based quartet wears its early-Radiohead influence on its sleeve on opener Fall On Me, Matt’s guitar jangling with Pablo Honey-era angst, though Owen’s vocal is closer to a sombre, less theatrical Robert Smith. It’s a slinky, moody opener. It builds towards a nice wah-wah guitar rock...
This compilation of studio recordings from Erswell opens with the familiarly baggy pop of Feel Good Sensation, it’s got a nice Happy Mondays-style chorus, whilst it’s joyously played there’s a little scarcity of that same euphoria in Erswell’s dry delivery, far better is his vocal on Shine Bright which...
A lively and thrilling double A side from London quartet Chapter 24 opens with Spindle, a song that propels itself off of a scrappy art-punk riff and twitchy, flailing drumming wrapped up by Claire Smith’s Bow Wow Wow-like vocals that stutter and stammer towards the howling chorus, before the...
This single from Leeds band Cut Out Shapes opens well with an upbeat drum line and tentatively shimmering guitars, though once the vocals kick in it sort of wobbles about a bit. Front man Chris Ward has an interesting style though, words delivered with a slight tremor to his...
Third LP from Manchester trio begins with a low key, near acapella introduction before lurching into the catchy sing-a-long of ‘Pigeon pecking chicken bones’ until it erupts into a frenzied assault of scuzzy, twitchy guitars from vocalist/guitarist Stephen, punctuated by fits and starts of drumming from Wes and a...
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