Pocket Fox – Birch Leaves (Album Review)
Australian indie collective Pocket Fox have been disseminating tightly-knit and cosy indie folk since their self-titled EP was released in 2011. The eight songs on their recent album “Birch Leaves”…
Thane – The Algorithm Isn’t Working (Album Review)
You are likely to have found this article based on an algorithm. Ubiquitous in our digital world, algorithms power everything from our entertainment to the administration of our lives and…
Mac DeMarco – Five Easy Hot Dogs (Album Review)
Mac DeMarco is no longer in his salad days. Instead, the beatnik lover of vintage sounds and multi-interpretable songs, now in his thirties, has had time to reflect on a…
Single Reviews: 18 January 2023: Emma Tricca, Rémi Fay, Vanessa Marcoux, David Smalt, Shmurk
Photo by melanie nobaru Emma Tricca – King Blixa folk rock London-based Italian artist Emma Tricca’s smooth vocals are spread evenly across her rousing new single “King Blixa”. Taken from…
The Loud Bangs – Salvation Memorial Hospital (EP Review)
For a band that released 6 5-song EPs in 2022 (!!), Angeleno shoegaze outfit The Loud Bangs don’t sound spent on the finale Salvation Memorial Hospital. Shoegaze is the de…
Long Island – infatuation’s a nightmare (Album Review)
The maxim “Youth is wasted on the young” is attributable to Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw, who later elaborated, “they’re brainless and don’t know what they have”. That is not…
Réverbérations d’une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal (Compilation Review)
Art has long been a tool for responding to injustice. Like how Impressionism created tides during the Industrial revolution, postmodernism has turbo-charged liberalism in a power system desperately tightening the…
rooms – Don’t Be Yourself (Album Review)
rooms are a lowercase slacker indie rock outfit from Vancouver, spearheaded by the charming lyrics and irreverent songwriting of Beshele Caron. As rooms, Caron and co have landed on three…
Softaware – Molt (Album Review)
Oklahoman Colin Nance makes trippy music, though not trippy in a hallucinogenic way, but more in the mind-bending hypnotic sense. His music is primarily driven by glossy synthetic instrumentation, methodic…
Single Reviews – 13 January 2023; The Fuchsias, Cholly, SHN, Warahenege, Floating Circles
Photo by Hayes Potter The Fuchsias – Elephante instrumental rock Brighton instrumental two-piece The Fuchsias have released the blistering single “Elephante”, taken from their debut EP ‘Isle’ which asserts the…