“Dare To Love Me” challenges Lalka, a producer, singer and video maker from Brisbane, Australia. The track and the swirling imagery of the video make your head spin: “You you love me, I say you lie, I make you feel uncomfortable,” Lalka sings and after this audio-visual experience there is[…]
London via Thessaloniki singer/songwriter and producer George Samaras, who goes by the artist name Plastic Flowers, released “How Can I” – a beautiful mix of the best dream pop and shoegaze have to offer. “How Can I” opens all airy and dreamy, then the guitars intensify, releasing all their sonic power in one[…]
“KWYOMO” is a track that pulls you in immediately: a driving, heavy beat feints a rock song before, before distorted synths set in and turn the whole thing into an exciting piece of electro pop. Halina Rice is a producer from London, who marries – not unlike to Kelly Lee[…]
“All I Ever Knew” sits on the irresistible cusp of hard-hitting indie rock and enchanting pop, with great vocals, intelligent lyrics and an overall catchy vibe. According to Melbourne-based musician Lou Scarrs the track is about: ‘discovering that everything you thought you knew was bullshit – kinda like finding out[…]
As we here in the northern hemisphere prepare to hand over summer to the southern part of the planet, here is a fantastic audiovisual experience by Toronto band Illyin Pipes to reminisce the warmer months of the year: Soothing synth lines, dreamy vocals and singer Jill Harris dancing through HD[…]
“Body Talk” is as smooth as it is sensuous and madly infectious! It is also the debut single by Birmingham-based quintet SHE, comprised of Rebecca & Robin Davies, Simon McCoy, Edd Duffell and Ricky Hill, who have honed their skills and talents in various different bands and under diverse pseudonyms, all[…]
BOO stands for Battery Operated Orchestra, an Australian/Scottish duo who creates “irony-free DIY synthpop” with layers of synth arpeggios, glitchy bass, icy beats and deadpan vocals. There is more than one nod to the 80s here: for the video they duplicated themselves into a Kraftwerk-style lineup and they released a[…]
“Back 2 the Start Again” is a tasty uptempo electro-pop track with hooks so sharp and effective that linger. According to singer/songwriter/producer T R A E, he wrote the song out of “frustration during my initial move to LA – our moving truck broke down in the middle of the[…]
Holland, the Amsterdam-based singer, who assumes the name of her home country broke onto the scene with the chill-inducing “Forget Your Name”. In “Demons”, again a wonderfully dark and unpretentious pop song, she is a little more reconciliatory. Holland explains: Demons is a dark track about a troubled soul, who[…]
“Juglar Child on the Carousel” by Spanish beach wave quartet The Zephyr Bones, is a highly infectious track thanks to its beautifully carefree and playful vibe. Jangly guitars, mollified soft vocals, a pretty melody, steady beats blend into each other and one can easily imagine a young juggler spinning round[…]
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