Oh Vienna

Breathe out — breathe in

The new LP is a mixed bag, silk and cyanide indeed. And for a bit of contrast…

Blooming vivid sound. Sounds good…

Almost ten years since they split, leaving with the great records of the century, the magnificent darlin’s are back with an LP, Bright Nights, due next month.

Deep blue in colour, like a clear sky. From the Perth band’s six-track LP, Cerulean, featuring the previously posted I’m a Rot and this…

Almost ten years since they split, leaving with the great records of the century, the magnificent darlin’s are back with an LP, Bright Nights, due next month.

Deep blue in colour, like a clear sky. From the Perth band’s six-track LP, Cerulean, featuring the previously posted I’m a Rot and …

No, not that one. More like this (at the beginning, at least)…

Largely inspired by the British use of herbicides and defoliants during the Malayan Emergency, killing rice was a military strategy from the very start of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam. [Wik…

South Korea’s trailblazing indie popsters are back with a five-track EP full of Seoul. In fact, why don’t we listen to the whole record…

Consistent excellence is what we expect and what we get from Andy Jossi’s ongoing partnership with Gretchen DeVault. Talking of stone, this is from Independent Country’s debut LP, TrailerParkLife……

Time to break it up?

Here for a reason… Good, for some reason…

Forty three years in the making.

Tags : “alternative electronic rock alternative dream pop electronic indie lofi post punk rock shoegaze” — maybe all those things, but there’s an unexpected energy about this. New Order vibes to th…

Ten years in the making — Castlebeat’s best record to date… …and almost the best ever by a band with “castle” in the name…

I’m not sure you have much choice. From Eternal Mourning, a 20-track LP — but I’m not sure anyone needs that much goth, unless…

The return of the Swedish queen of Italo Disco. But the real treat comes next…

The return of the Swedish queen of Italo Disco. But the real treat comes next…

If it works, don’t break it

Second single of the year from the New Yorkers and we love it more. Seven years since this should have claimed every “Best Single…” plaudit, thought the less said about the video the better……

The daughter of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, and Princess Augusta of Great Britain, Caroline was engaged in 1794 to her first cousin George, Prince of Wales, the future King George…

They’re from Perth, Australis, and far from rot(ten). Teen angst…

From Düsselfdorf, a five-piece brings you Retriever, a five-track EP. And from 2023…

Tongue-tiedIntolerantTalentedIntransigent Mealy-mouthedMalevolentMaking wishesInconsistent The people with the telly heads came round, broke the mood… The most underrated, under-appreciated band I’…

The Greeks are fast becoming Heard on the Wire mainstays with their take on what Americans would call indie rock. And with this, their most recent single…

Purer pop than if pop poured from the purest Scandinavian spring… From the Alpaca’s new LP, Another Day, but previously a single on which this was the equally lovely b-side.

Is that a glockenspiel I hear? And weirdly, it reminds me of this…

Each member looks like they’re in a different band, and sometimes they sound like it too.  But not here. No trombones on it though…

The Edinburgh band’s latest and maybe greatest. Now that I’m in heaven…

Let me influence you baby…