Hocus Tocus
You can’t really surf in Brighton. The pebbled beach turns me off and the water’s too cold. But that doesnt stop these two kids from dreaming the surf city dream. Sam “Tiger Man” and Mike White are the cousins behind Hocus Tocus, the band who first got my attention from that TEETH remix. What TEETH...
Kisses
Lovers, Jesse Kivel and Zinzi Edmundson are Kisses, a beautiful loungy lo-fi pop twosome from LA. If you’ve had enough of chillwave-y drone by this point, Kisses is a nice tempting alternative. Jesse’s style of vocals are almost akin to Dan Whitford of Cut Copy fame – calming, subdued crooning. Bermuda is a beautiful introduction...
DREAMS
I really want to snap out of it but I can’t coz it’s too good. Dreams is one boy, whom I’ve not had the privelage to learn his name yet, hailing from from Porto, in Portugal. And YES it’s what you call CHILLWAVE, again, complete with the bleached out, fuzzy, warm-lensed photo accompaniment. [Video: Dreams...
Raw Moans
Raw Moans, as a form of medication. Let go, space and epiphany. I wanna be sedated. Joseph Vorachack is certainly not emo, and although you may shelf him with the rest of the tender surf pop sounds that is flooding the scene, I feel his slo-fi possess a certain amount of zest, a childlike innocence...
Death In Plains Mustard Polo EP Remixes
Gonna do another post on Death In Plains because he’s just great. Just got word from DiscError that the Mustard Polo EP has been given the remixes treatment and usually I scoff at such vain efforts but this package is almost as good as the original. Featuring remixes by my favorite These New Puritans which...
Death In Plains
Forget Washed Out. Death In Plains is the one you want to watch. Enrico Boccioletti’s brand of lo-fi bleached out chilled pop is so much more progressive than Washed Out. I hate the term “chillwave” but you get the idea. Death In Plains is like WAVVES colliding with Future Islands / Light Pollution and has...
Songs For Walter
You have only got Holiday recs to thank for this one. It really is a prized find. Songs For Walter is Ed and Laurie from Manchester and I honestly cannot get this track out of my head. The vocals is shoegaze pop innocence behind an acoustic guitar. But it’s that raging, looping droning feedback at...
Foxes In Fiction
Foxes In Fiction. Ahhh what the fuck is wrong with me. Maybe I’m not really in the mood for slow, twee ambient stuff. I’m already dead tired and Warren Hildebrand’s bedroom recorded music has successfully made me feel even more exhausted. Was that the intention? I don’t know. Maybe I should come back to this...
Coasting
The moment I heard Coasting, the comparisons to Finally Punk, the Dum Dum Girls and Vivian Girls come to mind. I have friends who went to see the Dum Dum Girls at the Brudenell Social in Leeds and the one word that keeps comin up is that the Dum Dum Girls are stuck-up “knobheads“. I...
Superhumanoids
At first, I thought, what an unfortunate name. Their press people kept hounding me about these guys. Then they sent me their ep Urgency and I was like, honestly blown away. In fact as I write this, my hairs are standing on end. Superhumanoids is this LA band riding this new wave of nostalgia currently...
Zola Jesus
Watching, listening, feeling, breathing. Zola Jesus is Nika Roza Danilova of Wisconsin. Not a very typical Wisconsin name, but then nothing about her is typical at all. On first listen, I’m feeling PJ Harvey, I’m seeing Siouxsie Sioux, I’m understanding Lydia Lunch. I’m feeling Joy Division in tracks like Smirenye from Turnstile Music‘s Bento #2....
The Young Friends
Summer’s almost here, and we’ve got the perfect song for this year’s summer playlist. The Young Friends are Andrew McKee and Brant Stuns who set out to make lo-fi surf pop, having spent time at San Diego’s beaches during one inspiring road trip. The Young Friends has got a new album out, which was recorded...
