Under the Bridge
They say you can never go back and, perhaps even more tellingly, that the past is a different country where they do things differently. Certainly …
Category: janglepop
Sapphire and Steel – Snø
When Estella casually mentioned Sapphire and Steel were releasing a new ‘themed’ double A side in 24 hours’ time, fittingly it was during a conversation …
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 …
Meyverlin – Daily Events
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise: there is always a place for shiny new indie pop like this. When someone makes it sound as easy …
Lunar Isles – Anchorage
I seriously hadn’t heard of Lunar Isles before, other than briefly brushing past them on Instagram, but hearing their latest single was enough to want …
TheCatherines – Sink Into Oblivion
Second album in a year from pop polymath and king of the ear-worm Heiko Schneider, outdoing Morrissey for creative song titling. I’m holding TheCatherines partially …
Blue Arcade – Champagne on a Boat/Devil Wears Chanel
Funny, when I heard both songs I thought, are these scenes from the same life? Thanks to Eva’s impressionistic lyrics they feel like observations made …
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 …
Romance Languages EP
Dane Di Pierro has been a co-writer of this blog for quite a while now. Not long ago his band Distant Creatures, a band that …
Sullen Eyes – S/T EP
Some bands are blessed with an assured identity right from their inception and manage to greet new listeners with an air of familiarity like the …
The Catherines – Drenched
It’s the simple pleasures that get you through, unless I guess your taste extends to caviar and gold encrusted palaces… but then our target audience …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.” …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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. …
Foliage – Take
Coming off of 2018’s III and a successful split single with Andrew Younker, Foliage aka Manuel Joseph Walker appeared to be ready to take the …
Foliage – In Reference To
Foliage have shared a new single titled “In Reference To” this week. It’s the second single following “Pattern” from their upcoming 4th album. Building on …
Swimming Tapes – Morningside
London quintet Swimming Tapes has been quite a prolific group delivering no less than nine singles and two EPS since they first surfaced in 2016. …
Nah … – Apple Blossoms
The trouble with being in a band and running a blog is that you can’t review your own stuff. Still, it feels kinda weird not …
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 …
LIPS – LIPS EP
Indie/Jangle pop band LIPS are a four-piece from Falmouth, Cornwall consisting of Rachel Anstis on vocals and guitar, Theo Dorian on guitar, Christian Wright on …
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 …
Tallies – ST album & Interview
We introduced Tallies earlier last year with their single “Trouble” here on FAR. Our “correspondent” Dane Di Pierro recently went to see them and probed …
The Strange Creatures – Phantasms
Manilla based The Strange Creatures have got to be the most endearing outfit in dreampop-land! Not only do they have the most adorable happy-pill sound …
Interview with Matt Haynes from Sarah Records
Recently I had the honour to chat to Matt Haynes, co-founder of the legendary Bristolian Sarah Records, founded by him and Clare Wadd. Sarah Records …
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 …
Young Scum S/T & Interview
Last year while trying book my band a show in Richmond I was furiously searching the Internet for some exciting bands to share the stage …
Hatchie – Sugar & Spice EP
Australian indie darling Harriette Pilbeam is releasing her first, 5-track EP under the monniker Hatchie, on May 25th via Heavenly Recordings. To recap: since the feature I did on …
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 …
Foliage – III
From the slums of a broken city, Manuel Joseph Walker finds solace in a quiet bedroom crafting the lush world of Foliage that seems a …
Margot – Desensitised
Yours truly, like most other people, had never heard of the London-based quintet Margot, until I heard “Desensitised” played on the rather wonderful podcast Near Perfect Pitch …
Nah … – Summer’s Failing EP
Indiepop duo Nah… , who are based in Amsterdam in Munster, have released their debut EP “Summer’s Failing”, and it’s everything that fans of dreampop and …
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 …