Recorded at Unit in Tokyo recently this is Japanese multi-instrumentalist and producer Anchorsong. Gaining widespread recognition from his live shows including appearances at SXWS, Anchorsong has also enjoyed a bit of Radio 1 airplay…
Beat of the Week
Beat Of The Week // Knesset
The Knesset debut album ‘Coming Of Age’ is a wonderful record that I’m finding it hard to stop listening to, full of well written and carefully crafted songs. Their sound is one full of expansive melodies, lush vocals, and dreamy pop hooks, yet all delivered with a quiet confidence . . .
Beat Of The Week // The Band In Heaven
The Orlando duo of Ates Isildak and Lauren Dwyer produce a diverse mix of music, creating beautiful droning mellow moments…
Beat Of The Week // Bare Mutants
Bare Mutants are a Chicago five-piece formed by a group of friends out of the urge to just play some music together. I hear you say ‘isn’t that how every band is formed?’. Well, mostly yes, but few fall together so effortlessly and beautifully as Bare Mutants do…
Beat Of The Week 17 // Odonis Odonis
Astonishingly prolific, Toronto resident Dean Tzenos has apparently written almost 100 Odonis Odonis songs, including the brilliant, newly-arrived ‘Busted Lip / Handle Bars’ 7”
Beat Of The Week 16 // Mazes
I could throw around reference points all day, but Mazes mostly remind me of early Pavement, in places they go as pop as Weezer, and in others (like the IBB tape) they remind me of bands as prolific as Guided By Voices or Sebadoh. Out of the thousands of bands taking from these influences, Mazes are one who actually stand out
The History of Apple Pie – BOTW 15
…the excitement and the prospect of contributing to something you love is like a drug I guess. Like so many vices once you’re hooked you’re locked in for life.
Talons – BOTW 14, free download and live video
Talons are a difficult band to ignore. With 6 members including 2 violinists, a bagful of crushing guitar riffs and one of the most ferocious young drummers around, I’ve used the term “soundtrack to the end of the world” on more than one occasion to describe their incredible live performance, and now they have a studio recording to back it up…
Jail Weddings – BOTW 13
In performance Hart’s whole body shakes like Elvis’ hips in the early years and he contorts his voice like an exorcism of the angst evident in his songs. He is backed up with the sun-drenched harmonies of the devastating duo Jada Wagensomer and Katya Nadia Hubiak, and a wrecking crew of a band that look and sound like they formed a tight bond over a night discussing each other’s previous misdemeanours and felonies.
Old Forest – BOTW 12
“We’re not really in a rush to do anything, we just take things as it comes, it just is what it is. We have a CD-R coming out on Yew Nork Records that the guy from Faux Fur set up. We just think you should do what you want, do it for fun.
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