New weekend, new releases to celebrate, and none more anticipated than the new LP from DIIV (pictured above, photo credit Louie Kovatch). It's a mood, it's a construct, it's a coping process in action. For background, see our Marky Anderson's review for Static Sounds Club blog here. And while it is a landmark release that will inspire conversation and comparison for the rest of the year, it's certainly impossible to […]
Plenty new music to celebrate this week, so let's get the party started, shall we? Among our headliners, we're celebrating new releases from Graywave, No Desire, ADORER, Boy With Apple, Cusp, DIIV, Pure Hex, Hazel English, New Age Healers, Donna Martin Graduates, Miki Berenyi Trio, Future Nostalgia, Kai Tak, RINSE, Kitten Paws, and You're Jovian (pictured above). And that's just the start. We're also sharing compelling new sounds from Lasitud, […]
We're loaded down with new sounds for your ears. Headliners this weekend include Glixen (pictured above), about to embark on a big nationwide tour, as well as Magic Shoppe (premiered here), DIIV, Pure Hex, Relay Tapes, somesurprises, Kindsight, and eli's ladder. And that's just the front line, our bench is much deeper: Agent Blå, Fun With Ether, Lesser Angels, april june, Layzi, ADORER, L23, Double Grave, Memory Leak, Stellarscope, ANGGISLUKA, […]
The Euro shoegaze scene has been slowly becoming dominant in my listening habits. In particular France has been featuring big. The latest band to drop into my inbox with their musical delights are the Bordeaux-based trio, Cosmopaark. The name is a contraction of cosmonaut and a nod to Gus Van Sant’s movie Paranoid Park, a film which has a nineties aesthetic. The nineties are a big touchpoint for the band […]
We are overbooked with fresh sounds for the weekend: from DIIV (pictured above) to Greet Death, from Barrie to Hundredth, we have so much new to share with you. We're dying to share new music from Pinemoon and Murmure, both with fresh releases this week. We catch up with Tribes of the City, Whimsical, Moody Beach, Capitol, Night Hikes, Cielo Oceano, Failed Flowers, Cathedral Bells, Say Sue Me, El Glum, […]
So much new, so much now. We'll spend the weekend celebrating Anak Ko, the new LP from Jay Som. Richly textured, warm and expressive, it's the kind of "level up" long-time fans have waited for. The new album from Mermaidens (pictured above) released today, and it's an angular adventure through dream pop, and Look Me in the Eye will grow on you with each repeated listen. New single tracks from […]
It IS New Tracks Weekend, and 80% of the tracks we're spinning up are fresh in the last week, 90% in the last month or so. Of course we've got the latest from Tennis System, DIIV and Nothing. But our headliners this weekend, a band we'd criminally overlooked during debut album in January: Waterloo, Ontario's EDDYEVVY (pictured above). What began as a melodic folk duo expanded into an immensely tuneful […]
New and pre-release singles dropped from the heavens this week, and there's a veritable plethora of them. Angel Falls, Bellavista, Blackflower, Nostalgist, Fawns of Love, Launder (Zachary Cole Smith of DIIV), Night Flowers... so much so new. Plus the full release of the Blushing debut EP dropped late last night, and the control room dances about. And the full albums from Echodrone and Crystal Canyon finally see release, and there's […]
We run a radio station. Traditionally, couldn't care less about video releases. Sorry, but it's true. But then... one of our favorite bands polishes up one of their recent classics, and makes a video for it. And the whole studio starts to buzz. This is certainly the case with Melbourne's Arbes, who released one of the sparkling EPs of last year, and the song that cracked #15 on our Top […]
