Two years on from the release of their last album, Bright Smiles & Broken Hearts, DKFM favourites and shoegaze pals Whimsical are back with their new LP, Melt. The band, Krissy Vanderwoude (words) and Neil Burkdoll (music), gave us a taster of what was to come with the single ‘Gravity' last summer. With my appetite truly whetted I was ready for the album to land and here it is. So, […]
Bandcamp Friday, and it's an embarrassment of riches. More new tracks added this weekend than about any weekend we can remember in the past year. Headliners come from some long awaited releases: Young Prisms, Astragal, Whimsical and Moodlighting (pictured above). While there's much to adore from all three, we'd call your attention to Moodlighting new album Boy wonder, especially our pick to click, "Drowning in it". Deceptively compelling, by turns […]
A weekend where the new releases from Blushing, Beach House, and Basement Revolver (these are words with B this time) are all unleashed is a hectic weekend indeed. We're keen to also be promoting the newest sounds from Blush Always and Brothers In Law (in memoriam), as well as Catatonic Suns, heavenward, MONDO GROSSO, Whimsical, Heaven Slept, Day & Dream, Magic Wands, Glaze, No Suits in Miami, Dormition, gloomer, La […]
On this, the final Bandcamp Friday of the year (allegedly), we were tasked to comb through hundreds of pitches and release notifications, to bring you the best and the brightest the day has to offer. And we're here for it. Amongst our weaponry, the newest releases from Warper (pictured above), Lemondaze, Spotlight Kid, Whimsical, Seaside, Presents for Sally, Tapeworms and more. But that's just the surface sparkle. Dig a little […]
Fresh sounds and sonic sparkle, all pressed down and packed together, delivered to your ears this weekend. We're chuffed to present impressive new sounds from Tambourina, Fauvely, Velveteen Echo, and Lunation Fall (pictured above). And that's just scratched the surface of the deep. We're spinning up fresh and boundary-challenging challenging sounds from Moon Museum (premiered here) Holy Ship, Nightcrush, Garage Sale, The Telewire, Hayien, Kali Ma and the Garland of […]
Bloody 'ell though. First the website hosting company suffers a fatal error, taking hours to recover. Then we get multiple messages from Europe, suggesting our broadcast had collapsed (it hadn't, the E.U. is experiencing an internet usage surge that's straining capacity). Then Bandcamp offers up a full day where they give all purchase money raised direct to platform artists, without taking their usual administrative cut... and they've been able to […]
We have a lot to catch up on. Not just this week's new sonic flourishes in rotation, but last... we brought you so much new stuff, but failed to tell you what it was! We'll try to rectify the error now. This week, we're deep into the new releases from RAY, Daybehavior, Fragile Animals (pictured above), Los Marcianos, For Tracy Hyde, Babe Corner, Luby Sparks, Bathe, CAPITOL, Secret Knives, Chrome […]
You've heard it before: "we're overbooked"! Well, now more than ever... With new music from LACING, Soot Sprite, Newmoon and the RETURN of Monocism, we're already well burdened with fresh new sounds. But that's but the tip of this iceberg: Mellowtone charms, Dottie carves guitar sculptures in air, Billow continues to surprise. New music from Etherpool, Good Wilson, Wybercron, The Pink Elephants, Under Black Space, The Cherry Wave, Routine Death, […]
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, […]
