Foreign Correspondent – The First One EP
Foreign Correspondent is a relatively new indie-pop outfit from Melbourne, Australia. The band was formed in 2017 when Chris Haggerty (lead guitar), Kepler Ryan (keys) …
Year: 2020
Orchid Mantis – Far From This World & Interview
Orchid Mantis needs no introduction on this blog. The experimental dreampop project of Atlanta-based Thomas Howard, described as “found sounds, tape collages, and pop songs …
Wa’el – Come by and We’ll Talk All Night
We introduced Wa’el, a Swedish multi-instrumental bedroom-pop artist, here last September when he released his debut single “I Love You Why Would I Ever Leave?”. …
There’s Talk – Golden
Within the dreampop or shoegaze genre, vocals are a sensitive thing. Originally the vocals in this genre were meant to function more as an instrument …
FadeAwayRadiate Lists 2020
It’s been quite a year. It seemed to start off really great and then something happened that basically traumatised the whole world in one go. …
Beautiful Noise Compilation (Sunday Records)
As we haul ourselves, shellshocked and weary, to the end of a brutal year the artists featured on Beautiful Noise give us a refuge from …
Lost Tapes – Quoting Salter E.P.
Just as 2020 begins to finally wind down and the music business pumps out pop froth and supermarket shelf greatest hits, Sunday Records and Kocliko …
Orchid Mantis – Never Know Why
Orchid Mantis is an experimental recording dreampop project by Atlanta-based multitalent Thomas Howard. The project inhabits the border regions between ambient sound collages and dream-pop, employing odd/lo-fi …
In conversation with The Hepburns, Nah…
Today The Hepburns and Nah… are both releasing a cover of one of their favourite bands!! The Hepburns have covered a Vic Godard track and …
Sunstack Jones – Golden Repair & Interview
Earlier this month British band Sunstack Jones released their fourth album with Mai 68 Records. The band traces its origins back to 2011 when they …
Sapphire & Steel – Assignment 1
How did you spend your lockdown? Big plans, minimal results?? Yeah, me too… Not so Estella, it seems she’s been busy adding the finishing touches …
Hero No Hero EP
For those who missed it: today an excellent new project/EP saw the light of day. Indiepop project Hero No Hero are So Cal based Gretchen …
Dayflower – Stuck To You
It’s been only six months since Dayflower released the Popping Candy EP but the Leicester band has been keeping busy in these COVID times and have revealed …
Lisa Mychols & SUPER 8 – The Arms Of Water
On May 1st this I wrote about the single “Honey Bee“( https://www.fadeawayradiate.com/2020/05/lisa-mychols-super-8-honey-bee/) from the critically praised Lisa Mychols & SUPER 8 album that was subsequently released …
Found Space – Shadows
We introduced Found Space here in May with debut single “Don’t Let Go“. For those who missed: Found Space is the project of Spencer Smalley, …
Color Of Light – My World Ends
South-Carolina based dreampop outfit Color of Light just shared their new single “My World Ends“: a prelude to their new album Daydream Garden, that will …
Nah… – album & interview
It’s pretty tough reaching consensus on anything these days, but one thing we can probably all agree on: there have been better years… As a …
The Very Most – Do I Have To Do My Best All The Time?
Once in while, something comes along that is so good, it makes you wonder why you have never heard of it. Especially when you hear …
Swansea Sound – Corporate Indie Band
Back before the world was turned upside down ( I’m trying not to say, ‘pre-internet’) some bands were content to remain a mystery, any facts …
The Hepburns – Electric Lliedi Land
In the late 1990’s I had an obsession with a small indie record label in Spain called Siesta Records, a label with a very specific …
Orchid Mantis – Within And Apart
Orchid Mantis needs no introduction on this blog as he has been featured several times. This ghostly dreampop project by Atlanta-based multitalent Thomas Howard is actually …
Miserable Chillers – Audience of Summer
A few years back, I was introduced by the music of 2 musical friends and their associated musical projects. One was the Miserable Chillers project …
RÊVERIE – Life
RÊVERIE are an all girl trio from my native Amsterdam, who look like Billie Eilish (when she still had cool hair), Sonya Madan from Echobelly …
Cruise Control: A Yacht Rock Cover Comp
Our very own label has recently released our 5th comp to date. The musical genre we have chosen to cover this time is Yacht Rock: …
The Infinite Daisy Chains – Wake Up / Melting into You
On June 5th, the two-sided single “Wake Up / Melting into You” by new, WashingtonDC-based project The Infinite Daisy Chains, came to light, and drew …
Mini Trees – Slip Away EP
With Maddie Jay and Port Lucian we had some solo bedroompop girls prove their “worth beyond fad” this spring, and to join them today is …
Port Lucian – Full Control?
Philadelphia bedroompop musician Portia Maidment, aka Port Lucian premieres her single “Full Control?” today on Fadeawayradiate. When Lucia sent me the song she said she …
Found Space – Don’t Let It Go
Good stuff is easily missed, but luckily we have a good network and when I have time, I will sift through posts by people in …
Lisa Mychols & Super 8 – Honey Bee
True Californian Girl Lisa Mychols, who also seems to be known as “The Queen of Power Pop”, and UK-based pop maverick and multi-instrumentalist Paul Ryan, …
Maddie Jay – Shakes
Los Angeles based / Canadian born Maddie Jay is one of those girlies that make bedroompop. There seems to be a lot of them these …
Fadeawayradiate volume 1, 2, 3 and 4 on DKFM
We were very lucky that the great Greg Wilson of DKFM Shoegaze radio gave us the chance to present our very own show on their …
Emmett Kai – Marigold
Since the album “Baby Hits” ( February 2019), Emmett Kai, who according to himself is a freak pop novelty, has been knocking out songs at …
TheCatherines – Bingo
“We both like ‘Honey.’” “Always good to find common interests! What other foods do you both enjoy?” “We both like ‘Honey,’ the Bobby Goldsboro song.” …
TARA – Oceans
If I am totally honest, after having lived the 1st shoegaze wave full-on in the 90’s; after having been through all possible revivals and hearing …
Soccer Mommy – Color Theory
Sophie Allison has been releasing music under the moniker Soccer Mommy since her late teens, but it wasn’t until her breakout 2018 album Clean that she …
Draag – Around My Fear
Draag began as a project to reissue songs that musician and songwriter Adrian Acosta recorded on cassette with a karaoke machine/dual-tape deck when he was …
The Francine Odysseys – Hide Your Eyes
Gretchen DeVault is an indie-pop veteran. She steered tweepop band The Icicles through years of acclaimed albums and high-profile deals with Target and Motorola in …
Laveda – Ghost
Laveda are a dreampop outfit that draw heavily from 90’s shoegaze and alternative rock. Starting off as a singer-songwriter bedroom project in Albany, NY by …
Bathe Alone – Calm Down
We introduced Bathe Alone, formally known as the project Bathe (multi-instrumentalist/bassist Bailey Crone from Atlanta, GA) on here last year with her debut single “The Silence“, …
Wilsen – Ruiner
Wilsen are the Brooklyn-based project of Tamsin Wilson (guitar/vocals), Johnny Simon Jr. (guitar), and Drew Arndt (bass). Ruiner is their second album, and follows 2017’s …
Somewhere in England – A Sunday Records Tribute to They Go Boom!!
…I remembered what it was like to feel young and happy, wearing a sweater and clean cotton pants, and walking through the cool halls of …
King Krule – Alone, Omen 3
If anything in song or visual format ever comes close to what is in my mind and heart, it is this! King Krule has released …
Vivienne Eastwood – Home Movies
Brooklyn based band Vivienne Eastwood wrote to me and asked me to check out their new EP Home Movies, and the moment I listened to …
Wild Nothing – Laughing Gas
It’s hard to believe that in 2020 Wild Nothing, the musical vehicle of Jack Tatum, has been around for eleven years. In that time the …
Remington Super 60 – I Don’t Wanna Wait
In July last year we introduced and featured the first fresh material in a while from Norwegian retro indiepop outfit Remington Super 60 (Remington Super …
Real Estate – Paper Cup
The new single “Paper Cup” from dream/jangle poppers Real Estate is well worth the wait! Their forthcoming album Main Thing will follow up their album …
Nah… – Perfect Game
“Yet so pleasing the Pain is, so soft is the Dart, That at once it both wounds me, and Tickles my Heart.” – Henry Purcell, …