Mineral -Plastic Ekphrastic (2013) review
Mineral “Plastic Ekphrastic” (359 Music, 2013) Mineral is an electronic quartet from Paris and Dublin that offer bouncy dance music with chanting vocals and funky backbeats that will...
Scarlet Youth – The Everchanging View (2013) review
Scarlet Youth “The Everchanging View” [Deluxe Edition] (Saint Marie, 2013) Sophomore effort from this international (Finland/Germany) dreamcore outfit pairs swirling, New Orderish melodies with soft, emotional vocals that...
Multicult interview with Nick Skrobisz
Noisy and brash Multicult are here to kick some ass and chew bubblegum, and right now they’re all out of bubblegum. From early beginnings as a one man...
Beautify Junkyards | Interview | “Acid-tinged, autumnal folk”
Lisbon’s Beautify Junkyards specialize in playing acid-tinged, autumnal folk. They released a fantastic single for the Fruits de Mer label in 2012, and then followed up on that...
Orange Yellow Red – A Rose Made of Galaxies (2013) review
Orange Yellow Red “A Rose Made of Galaxies” (Saint Marie, 2013) Debut album from British dreampop trio delivers an avalanche of Cocteaus-meet-Cure swirling pop, all delicately balanced on...
Charlies interview with Eero Ravi
We always thought Elonkorjuu was the heaviest album in the early 70s from Finland. But Charlies album features loud and wild guitars, screaming vocals, and can easily be...
Elika – Moving Forward c/w Bury 7” (2013) review
Elika “Moving Forward” c/w “Bury” 7” (Saint Marie, 2013) This is the first of three singles Elika will be releasing over the next year uner the umbrella title...
‘When Evil Worlds Collide’, Acid Mothers Temple & Space Paranoid @Galeria Zé Dos Bois, 03/11
What can we say about this combination of factos? Acid Mothers Temple play Black Sabbath. Words are hard to find to describe this gig. To have Japan’s most...
Lantern interview with Emily Robb and Zachary Devereux Fairbrother
I could spend a ton of time trying to explain the intricacies of Lantern’s sound or listing their impressive collection of releases from the past few years. Instead...
Karhide – Remember Remember (2013) review
Karhide "Remember Remember" (Field Records, 2013) This EP is a brief listen at just over a half hour,...