Tag: <span>indiepop</span>

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 …

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 …