Kieran Jones aka F.E.E. (Fuck Everyone Else) presents his unashamedly old-school mix of electro dub, hip hop, and groove on his new album Returning to Earth from Other Planets. Kieran has been around for a long while, and has never stopped bringing out good music:...
New Music
new releases that got us twitching
Always more music coming out, always new sounds and looks, questions to answer and answers to question, styles to pick apart and intentions to ponder...here are the new major releases that have us twitching in our seats. 1. Is Billie Eilish indie? No - because she's...
ORIAN Releases Debut EP Before It Weighs Us Down: “the comfort that allows me to climb out of myself”
ORIAN releases his brand new EP Before It Weighs Us Down today. There must, in the end, be a thousand different reasons why people make music. ORIAN's? “I wanted this collection of music to be the comfort for me that allows me to climb out of myself, as so much music...
US band Jeweler on their debut album Tiny Circles: It’s not rocket science…
On their debut LP Tiny Circles, Minneapolis-based quintet Jeweler mine the iconic sonic palettes of lush U.K. shoegaze, melodic noise-pop, and expansive, psych-tinged art rock to build a melodic vocabulary both uniquely their own and eminently engaging. Chief...
Review: Idiot’s Dream by Freddie Dickson: intimate and disarming with a flare of Nick Cave
British Indie Singer-Songwriter Freddie Dickson Berlin inspired new EP Idiot's Dream is out June 4th, 2021, via Shakey Records. The EP's title track Idiot's Dream starts out with ominous jangling electric guitar chords and an ethereal phantom falsetto before dropping...
Review of Into the Stars by Vincent Littlehat / Chris Zippel
Why look into the stars? To find experimental pop/dance singer songwriter Vincent Littlehat’s hypnotic new single and video “Into The Stars” (Allisum Records), out today (28.5) The three-minute dance alterna-pop confection is a collaboration with Berlin based...
Review: Nothing2 by Strange Souvenirs: rolling orchestral crescendos and a blood-spattered drunken choir
The Berlin/Hamburg based brothers Thomas and Matthias Juhnke a.k.a. Strange Souvenirs are back out the shadows of The Famous Gold Watch Studios with their latest single 'Nothing2'. After repeating this song about 6 times in a row on my first listen, a strangely...
Music Report: search for hope and battles with yourself in these brand new albums
New edition of Music Report with some exciting debuts and comebacks.
EP Review: Bird Dreams – soulful indie pop that rewards a replay
An accomplished slice of soulful indie pop that rewards more than a few replays. On first listen “Golden Street” took me back to the 90’s when I was listening to Fiona Apple and Luscious Jackson, it’s indie pop alright but good indie pop. It’s polished, tight and...
ripe with bittersweet melancholy: Mumbai-born Berlin-based DJ TG01 releases debut single
Abbas Khambati aka, TG01 is a Berlin based music producer and DJ from Mumbai, India. On April 2, 2021 he released his debut single 'Howdoilookintoyoureyes?' (HDILIYE) with Berlin independent electronic music label Four Clouds Records. The track starts out with a...
Riah Knight in Interview: Between Roma, Sinti, Sussex and Berlin
Your EP that comes out on April 26th is called Knight in Neukölln….what’s behind the title? Does Neukölln inspire you particularly, and why? After a residency at the London Roundhouse saw her opening for artists such as Jimmy Webb and Portico Quartet, UK artist Riah...
Interview: PIHKA Is My Name – Imaginary Friends & Digital Water
PIHKA Is My Name is a cinematic electronic group fronted by an abandoned imaginary friend. Starting as a purely studio affair in 2017, their introduction more recently of live Youtube streams initiated a taste for playing live. As they release their debut offering,...
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