Bloc Party – Four
Bloc Party [Twitter/Facebook] fans, listen up: those of you (and there are plenty) who have been longing to hear the band return to their roots and produce another Silent Alarm won’t be completely… Read More
Dog Is Dead – Talk Through the Night
The wheels are starting to turn for Dog Is Dead [Twitter/Facebook]in earnest, now that their debut album finally has a release date. It’s still a little over two months away, of course… Read More
Fighting With Wire – Waiting on a Way to Believe
If you enjoy having your socks rocked off on a Thursday afternoon, then the new single from Fighting With Wire [Twitter/Facebook] will be right up your street. Taken from their long (long,… Read More
Cinnamon Girl – Devil In Me
Yet another storming electro-pop song emerges from Scandinavia, leaving me at a loss to explain how the hell the region’s managing to produce music this accomplished all the time. We’ve been here… Read More
Drop Out Venus – I Kill Foxes
“This is the saddest song I’ve ever written, and I borderline hate it.” So says the frontwoman of London-via-Bulgaria ‘junk jazz’ trio Drop Out Venus [Twitter/Facebook]. It’s not exactly a ringing endorsement,… Read More
Introducing: PYYRAMIDS
Sometimes chance meetings can lead to brilliant chemistry. Brought together by a mutual friend, the two people that make up PYYRAMIDS [Twitter/Facebook] (ex-He Say She Say singer Drea Smith and OK Go’s… Read More
Sam Flax – Fire Doesn’t Burn Itself
Pysch-pop, when not done well, can come across as a barrage of conflicting ideas. Songs in that genre are often so layered and nuanced that if just one element is out of… Read More
Gunning For Tamar – Dark Sky Tourism
Here’s something to get your Monday off to a great start. Gunning For Tamar [Twitter/Facebook] put themselves on our radar with the Time Trophies EP earlier in the year, and seem to have come… Read More
