Category Archives: indie as fuck
The Last Dinosaurs
No guys sorry to disappoint but this is not the latest straight to video release of ‘The Land Before Time’ series, although who wouldn’t want to hear about the latest adventures of little foot and the gang. I guess he would be Big Foot by now and have a family of his own. I just [...]
Esau Mwamwaya + Radioclit are ‘The Very Best’
In one of my first posts I wrote about a guy called Esau Mwamwaya, a Malawian singer whose chance encounter with one of Radioclit turned into a musical adventure taking in all bongo-bothering things that Radioclit are known for plus a bit more on the side. Whilst an album is on the way, in the [...]
Love is All is Love
Finally! It’s coming! The album is coming! No more of these desperate sounding posts, where I frantically try to scrub up every last skerrick of Love is All related soundbites. The album is coming! Sure it’s a few months late, but when it sounds this good, who really gives a shit? The new album is [...]
Tahiti 80 – Activity Center
For those of us still missing the easy-on-the-ears melodic rock of the infuriatingly likable Phoenix, the Rouen-based Tahiti 80’s newest album, Activity Center, might just be a godsend, especially since Phoenix’s most recently (unofficially) released track, Twenty-One One Zero, turned out to be so, umm, unPhoenix-like. But isn’t that a rather lazy comparison, because they’re [...]
Montag
You’ve probably been seeing a bit of Montag’s sexy, pop-fresh, melancholic remixes hyped up around teh intraweb, nailing a recent remix of M83′s Kim and Jessie will tend to do that for a completely incognito, experimental synth-popper. Hey…. maybe you should try it too and YOU can get famous on Ye olde interwebbe. Go on [...]
Captain – Distraction
Wow, it’s like the second coming of Cajun Dance Party. Again a London-based quintet with an obligatory token girl member, only this time around they’ve managed to graduate from highschool… Although on closer inspection it appears as if this second coming of Cajun Dance Party actually released their debut single before the first coming did, [...]
TV on the Radio Return
TV on the Radio hold an odd place in my musical pantheon. Over the past few years I became, and still am so deeply enamoured with the song ‘Staring at the Sun’ that it’s made it quite hard for me to really listen properly to anything else they’ve done. Every time I tried to listen [...]
Pomomofo Remixed By The Toxic Avenger
Will the dogs and cats ever stop, you ask? Good lord, no. This time the particular puppies in question are the well-loved Sydney Pomomofo boys, who are gearing up to release their new EP, In Super VGA, very soon on local label, Bandroom Records. We’re expecting great things from this EP, its debut single, Island, [...]
AND ‘hello my name is…’
Hello all, another introduction. Hello my name is Christen and i love music, and this is some music i like. Twist Oliver Twist! hail from my sleepy little home town of Brisbane. I have enjoyed watching these guys grow over the last year and a half, their songwriting has noticeably matured since winning the Brisbane [...]
Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself, My Name Is…
Erm, Plimsouls. One or two of you might know me from my little forays into production/remixing. If you don’t, you’re missing out (I’d like to think); hit me up. I’ve also just started a blog, Techno Jihad. Ned got wind of it’s total freaking awesomeness, and asked me if I’d fancy doing the odd post [...]
Flashguns
So here’s another one of those bands who inexplicably enjoy very little hype (machine or otherwise) and yet are so ridiculously likable it seems like such a shame. Flashguns are a charming four-piece band from Brighton whom I’d venture to suggest sound like a young Mystery Jets, only this time no one’s dad is hanging [...]
CSS Go Donkey
I must admit, I kinda missed the CSS bandwagon when it first rolled through town. Of course I was au fait with the obvious singles, and my library is peppered with any number of variable quality remixes of ‘Let’s Make Love…”, but I was never entirely convinced that there was much flesh to their albums [...]
Beck: Modern Guilt
It feels like I’ve been anticipating this album for all of forever. I have a massive crush on this man, and not just because he’s pretty. It’s because he never disappoints, even after nine studio albums spanning fourteen years, Beck’s tenth album, Modern Guilt, is superb, and while he has described it as, “the most [...]
The Rascals – Rascalize
Well it’s set to be released internationally tomorrow, but The Rascals’ Rascalize was leaked about a month ago and it’s been oozing all over the place ever since. Not that that’s such a terrible thing (ok, maybe for Deltasonic Records it is), because I really do enjoy it, although I’m not so sure I should [...]
Soldout – Cuts