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 …
Tag: indiepop
End Of The Year list 2023
Overall, I have to say, I found more interesting music in 2023 than the year before. Actually quite a lot of it. However, not all …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Hazel English – Nine Stories
Sometimes you find an artist that has all you look for. It’s rare, but it happens. When that artist subsequently changes style and sound quite …
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 …
Rachel Love – Picture In Mind
‘How did it all become so complicated lately?’ If you’ve not asked yourself that question recently I envy you. Estella has already highlighted Down the …
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 …
90’s Indie Dance Revival: Lunarette and Daisies
At the end of 2019, prolific and eclectic band/duo Daisies’ “What Are You Waiting For? album ended up in my top 5 albums of the …
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 …
The Hepburns (featuring Estella Rosa) – The Other Side Of Grey
You know those days, you’re hot, bothered, things are really not going your way.The light at the end of the tunnel is about as strong …
Catenary Wires – Birling Gap
If only Morrissey had grown older and wiser like Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey, perhaps he would still be able to make a record as …
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 …
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), …
Redspencer – All I Do
I adore Redspencer – seriously is there anything more awesome than their Tell track/video? – and we haven’t heard anything from them for a while …
Rachel Love – Down The Line
My discovery of Rachel had a bit of a detour, to be honest. Having been a huge Birdie fan – the super retropop duo consisting …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.” …
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 …
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“, …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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” …
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 …
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 …
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 …