Releasing today is the long-awaited debut album from Israeli dream pop artist Lital Hagayan. Luckily for me she was able to take time out from her busy schedule to talk over all things musical. We had a great chat about the album, Singularity, and how she defined her signature sound. If you want to know how Lital got into music, the creation of Singularity and who her key influences are […]
Some bands entertain, some thrill and excite but others completely transport you out of your life into strange fantastical worlds. This is my experience of The Stargazer Lilies. They remain a band I am in awe of and now a new album is nearly upon us. A new opportunity to explore the outer reaches of my imagination. Cosmic Tidal Wave is out this Frida,y so I took the opportunity to […]
Groundbreaking. Polished imperfection. Genre-defying. Iconoclastic. Forefathers/pioneers. When you hear the name A.R. Kane spoken, it is usually uttered with a sense of respect and reverence, and with a relative word salad of superlatives attached. From their East London founding as friends and creative foils in 1986, to their professional and creative split in 1994, A.R. Kane helped define and later reshape what is now commonly known as dream pop. They […]
It's a dreamy sound. If you had to compare it to anything, you'd compare it to the sound of Portland rain. The intricate twin-guitar interplay sounds like getting caught in a small but refreshing rain shower. THIS is Soft Shadows. As they prepare for wide distribution of their new full-length disc, Reverb is for Lovers, we sat down with the members of Soft Shadows and asked them about music, philosophy, […]
Otherworldly, elemental, primal. In a word, epic. When it comes to the sound generated by The Stargazer Lilies, it's rather difficult for us to avoid hyperbole. John Ceparano and Kim Field left the impressively eerie disco shoegaze of Soundpool behind, and concentrated on this epic soundscape that spares filigree and sucks you into a exploding star of melody and bliss. And as good as Soundpool was (quite), this is an […]
"We've got glassware / for every season." About a minute into the opening track "Showering with Wine", Sunshine lets you know you're in for something different, better, special. Bright, beautiful, irreverent, unconstrained by musical dogma, the new self-titled LP from Sunshine drops a fat slab of... well, sunshine into your lap and DARES you to dislike it. Hint: you can't. Hazy, sunny guitars and bright but breathy vocals and sparkling […]
