Smoky blues rock, straight from the garage. I smell some White Stripes from time to time. All parts are superbly played/sung. From the juicy bass lines up to the adorable lead voice. If you rock, rock on here! Continue reading “Hot Fiction – [2010] Dark Room”
This release from Vulpiano Records, a netlabel that currently uploads its back catalogue to the Internet Archive, where it showed up in my daily stream of new releases. This EP only has two tracks, why I only present my favourite track here. Continue reading “RED BELLOWS – [2011] Three.six.five”
Arcade Island is an electronic alternative rock artist. This release reminds me a bit of pandoras.box (review of their album Barriers).
Floating guitar chords, soft radio pop beats, sometimes harder, great vocals all make this album a breeze to listen to. It is brought to us by the well-known Clinical Archives. Read on for a selection of my favourite two tracks and the download link. Continue reading “Arcade Island – [2012] Spring EP”
Do you know that kind of music that is repetitive, nearly boring but addictive nevertheless? Oneiro follows this recipe and made me an addict. I would classify this release loosely as indie electronica with shoegaze elements. Another way to describe them: the introvert brothers of MGMT. Anyway, their music is addictive background music for calm evenings. Continue reading “Oneiro – [2010] To The Stars”
Stephane Garry is the man behind the name Pokett, having released this wonderful 4 track EP on the Sundays in Spring netlabel. It is all about dreamy folk music and ears full of emotional guitar chord carpets. Forget Jack Johnson or Conor Oberst, I like this album much better. It reminds me a bit of Newton Faulkner’s “Handbuilt by Robots”, however it lacks pop music genes. But listen yourself to my two favourite tracks (and download the whole release, of course)… Continue reading “Pokett – [2004] Your Picture Here”
Excellent indie rock. From Lower Bavaria. Who would have thought?
One of the best moments during music discovery is the one when you hear an album the first time and instantly are addicted to it. To know that you will hear it over and over again, that after hours of mediocre or boring music you found a new pearl in the ocean of music.
The independent rock band Pandoras.Box from Lower Bavaria with their album Barriers gave me the last incarnation of such a moment. The album could as well be sold on CD, the quality of song-writing and production does not need to hide behind commercial releases. I would be surprised to not see their next release in stores. Continue reading “Pandoras.Box – [2009] Barriers”
