End of the Year Top 5 2024
It’s that time again already! I know the blog isn’t really very active but I did listen to some great music this year, and do …
Category: indie
Draag – Microgravity Tank
As I already told half the world: I think Draag are the best and most innovative shoegaze band of today. After epic album “Dark Fire …
Fleur Blue.e – Waterfall Spring
Fleur bleu·e are a Paris-based dreampop duo consisting of singer Delphine Lucy Lam and Vlad Swann who have released quite a few singles already over the …
Fadeawayradiate Records Compilations are back!
Due to Bandcamp’s new regulations and the Epic shift and the Google troubles, our label page was completely gone for a while. We started again …
Are We Electric? – Some thoughts on the lack women in the music industry
In the midst of the “woke” era we find ourselves questioning a lot of things that were taken for granted, or simply left unquestioned, or …
Japanese Heart Software – Soft
New year: new music. If you’re struggling with the dark depths of January then Soft may be the antidote for your existential blues. Actually there’s …
Fadeawayradiate Yearlists 2021
Aah…we had so much hope for this year becoming the one where we would return to normality. Little did we know! Things would just progress …
You’ll Never Get to Heaven – Wave your Moonlight Hat for the SnowFall Train
I often ramble on about the healing power of music, mainly because, idealistic fool that I am, I believe it. If you’re reading this, then …
Swansea Sound – Live at the Rum Puncheon
When I was a teen, in the pre-internet days of information scarcity when facts and alternative facts existed but didn’t flood the ether, I thought …
The Francine Odysseys – My Favourite Distraction EP
Love at first sight (or sound), is it real? Can something that deep be as swift and sudden as lightning striking? I’m no scientist so …
Remington Super 60 – Nouvelle Nouveau EP
There’s a jaw dropping scene in Right Here, the documentary detailing the rise, fall and rise of the alt-Fleetwood Mac, the Go-Betweens. Robert Forster and …
Catenary Wires – Mirrorball
Mirrorball, is the new single (and video) by The Catenary Wires, indie project of Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey (ex Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, Pooh Sticks), …
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 …
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 …
Fadeawayradiate Top 5 lists 2019
The end to a decade: time flies! All in all, I think this decade definitely saw more interesting releases in indie-music than the preceding one. …
Polly Preacher – Blood On The Moon
Ashleagh Claire Hurren, better known as her musical alias Polly Preacher (Colchester, UK), returns with a second single this year titled “Blood On The Moon” …
GOLDEN – Unaccountable
We have another girl called Bailey (see Bathe) making music by herself in her bedroom. This time under the moniker Golden. The first songs Golden …
F.A.R. OUT – A Sunshine/Psychpop compilation
Our world was without color in the pair of decades prior to 1963, our pupils perceiving only black, white, and various shades of gray. Photographs …
Our Favourite Fallen Idols – An Adorable Interview
Everybody that was into indie bands in the first half of the 1990’s will instantly recognise the intro of “Sunshine Smile“. They may never have …
Hazel English – Shaking
I listen to so many bands in the dream pop genre for the blog, radio-show and groups, and bands and songs come and go. One …
Adorable’s 25th Anniversary Show – Bush Hall, London
Somewhere the spring of 1993 I was walking down the street in Amsterdam and I bumped into a bunch of lost guys that asked …
The Stargazer Lilies – Living Work of Art
I had the opportunity to see The Stargazer Lilies live a few years ago and thought it was a little bit odd that they were …
Remington Super 60 – The Highway Again
Remington super 60 is/was an indie pop band from Norway, that released quite a bit of material in the late 90’s/ early 2000’s, during the …
The Memory Fades – She Loves The Birds
The Memory Fades creates dreamy pop, bittersweet below the surface, a dream from which you awaken with the sensation of having passed through the home …
Shiny Happy Records Tapes: the spirit of DIY alive in Indonesia
Some time ago the label Shiny Happy Records was recommended to me by Gregory Harrigan (from the band The Skating Party) as a small DIY cassette label with a …
Oslo Oscillator – City Nomads
I introduced Oslo Oscillator on Fadeawayradiate last year. The band has been tantalizing us with demos and singles for some years now, but the release …
Men I Trust – Say, Can You Hear
Men I Trust, are a dreampop trio from Montreal (Canada) that started out in 2014 and consists of Emm(anuelle) Proulx (guitar/vocals), Jessy Caron (bass), Dragos …
Amber Arcades – European Heartbreak
Dutch dreampop outfit Amber Arcades release their second album, European Heartbreak, on 28th September 2018 via Heavenly Recordings. The album was recorded and co-produced in LA with Chris Cohen from Deerhoof and in …
Reverse Play: C86 re(dis)covered cover compilation
FadeAwayRadiate released our annual compilation last month titled Reverse Play: C86 Re(dis)covered and since we’re music reviewers at heart here at this blog, it only …
The Beths – Future Me Hates Me
What do you get when you take some university jazz students and a former folk singer and put them in a band together? If you …
Oslo Oscillator – Newlands
I introduced Norwegian band Oslo Oscillator on here last year (Article Norway Calling ). To refresh the memory: Oslo Oscillator makes- in their own words …
The Catherines S/T
Before you’ve even heard a note of The Catherines music you can almost imagine what you’re in for. The monotone covers displaying a young Catherine …
Blue Note Indie
Jazz and prog are hot… I have noticed. Go to any hip underground club and there will be some cute band trying to sound like …
Stephen’s Shore – September Love
September Love by Stephen’s Shore Summer might be a few months away, but Stephen’s Shore is here to fill that void for you with breezy …
The Day – Leave the Dark
I am quite ruthless in my search through new indie tracks. I always look for a certain sound, a certain “je-ne-sais-quoi”. That doesn’t mean that …
Dayflower – Daisy Age
Daisy Age by Dayflower By now, British band Dayflower have become a household name on Fadeawayradiate! It all started when the late Chris Tressler, a …
Gliss – Strange Heaven
Berlin duo Gliss released a new album just a few weeks ago, and it has absolutely enraptured me. At times “Strange Heaven” reminds the listener …
Bolinas – Casa
Subtle is the word that springs to mind when I listen to Bolinas‘ latest song “Casa” (or any Bolinas song for that matter) and subtlety …
Camilo Beltran – Whispers
I recently got this subtle gem of a song submitted that was too precious not to pay attention to: “Whispers” is a brief, temperate track …
North West – Sun
Etheral, London-based duo Northwest (Ignacio Simón & Mariuca García-Lomas) want to show you their latest creation/single/video (ironically?) called “Sun“. NorthWest: “Sun” is our brainchild and so it’s difficult …
Bolinas – Vacation & Angostura
Bolinas are a dreampop quartet I came across by accident on Soundcloud suggestions, and immediately adored! The band, and their perfectly sultry beachy sound, are obviously …
Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds from Another Planet & live in Paradiso
Japanese Breakfast was one of the last bands on the line-up of the 25th anniversary London Calling edition (yes,yours truly was there at the very …
I Remember That!: 12 Sophistipop tunes quoted out of context…
Somewhere in May I sent a nice little cover of Oh Patti by Scritti Politti to a friend who said: “So… a Scritti-tribute album curated …
Pia Fraus – Field Ceremony
Field Ceremony will be released in digital, CD and Vinyl LP on the 16th of October, between labels Seksound (Pia Fraus’ own label, releasing other …
Frankie Rose – Cage Tropical album
Cage Tropical Slumberland Records/Grey Market 11 August 2017 Phenomenon Frankie Rose, former member of Crystal Stilts, Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls and Beverly is finally back …
Northwest – Dimaryp
I already added their mesmerising track “Wind” to one of my playlists this year, and was an instantly hooked on their supernatural, atmospheric “poetry in …
The Holiday Crowd – S/T
If ever there’s music that I consider to be timeless and will never bore me, it’s the music of my favourite guitarist Johnny Marr, and …
Drab Majesty – The Demonstration
Stark, beautiful, and poignant; the much-anticipated release from Los Angeles two-piece Drab Majesty has finally been released. With the singles “39 by Design”, “Cold Souls” …
Meeting Heavy Heart…
Review and short interview with Anna Vincent I hear a lot of similar music and find myself scanning through SoundCloud and YouTube quite often for …
Hazel English – “ Never Going Home” EP
I have been following Hazel English and sharing her stuff ever since I heard “It’s Not Real” last year. After more songs appeared on Soundcloud …
THE DEATH OF POP/ THE SKATING PARTY SPLIT 7″ LATHE CUT
The Skating Party is a project from Philadelphia’s Gregory James. Their song “Twin Polar “ will appeal to lovers of jangly/ twee and neatly fits …
The Arctic Flow – The Luminous Veil
The Arctic Flow – “The Luminous Veil” Label: Oscarson Realease: December 14, 2015 The Arctic Flow, again was discovered on one of my associative Tube …