Silverbacks

Track: Archive Material From: Archive Material (EP) Label: Full Time Hobby Out: Now

Twisting Lewsberg style truncated, dry jangly riffs, through grooves and glorious post-punk pretensions, Archive Material / Silverbacks is indie cool personified !

Films on Song

Track: Over the Sink From: Over The Sink (single) Label: Self Released Out: Now

This Charlottesville based act mixes Charlie Duda style surf pop commerciality with the slightest of Swiss Portrait’s jangle-gaze. Glorious from inception!

Lucas Stern

Track: Poet From: Vena Cava (album) Label: Self released Out: Now

Fuzz-pop? Dream-pop? Lo-Fi? Parker Longbough? Perhaps all…a truly wonderul mix of sound from this New Yorker.

Badvril

Track: Wish You Would From: Wish You Would (single) Label: Self released Out: Now

This solo project of San Francisco’s, Becket Schroeder, mixes the lo-fi spatial of the Gushh aesthetic, with an energy that creeps towards the more beautiful end of the shoegaze genre as the track develops.

Starman Jr

Track: Let You Down From: Hardcore (album) Label: Self released Out: Now/Today

Starman Jr. is the recording project of Mississippi native, Adam Porter. Juxtaposing washed out slacker-pop, the slightest of gaze inflections and all manner of 60/70s/80s pop rock melodies, Porter makes something new out of the best that yesteryear has to offer.

Dante Matas

Track: Catching Up With You From: Avoid Discipline (EP) Label: Self released Out: Now

Dante Matas creates a similar beautifully languid mix of lo-fi and 50/60s pop rock melodies, that fellow Canadian countrymen, The Pierce Kingans offer. Sumptuous from start to finish and a definite trip into absolute earworm territory!

Henry McIntyre

Track: Starting Over From: Starting Over (single) Label: Self released Out: Now

Beguiling mix of The Beatles style melodies and the sort of indie-folk of Liam Frost or Connor Oberst, with every musical crevice filled with chiming jangled riffs and 70s pop rock. A glorious mix of aural textures.

Sluggg

Track: If I From: If I (single) Label: Self released Out: Now

Bedroom-pop in the earliest of Foliage guises, mixing ethereal gaze and isolated jangled riffs to absolute perfection.

Maida Rose

Track: I Remember From: Tales of Adolescence (album) Label: Self released Out: Album out 25 March 2022

Netherlands based duo that fill the musical hinterland between dream-pop and Mazzy Starr melancholic instrospection, with all manner of stunning jangled riffs.

Bradley Coomes

Track: Lost In You (ft. Jackie Kasbohm) From: Communion (album) Label: Self released Out: Now

The dreamy/jangly ambience of the signature Bradley Coomes vibe, married to and augmented by the vocals of Jackie Kasbohm. All the tracks on this stunning album feature the subtle infusion of perfectly chosen guest vocalists.

Field Daze

Track: Helping Hotel From: Helping Hotel (single) Label: Self released Out: Now

Eggs on Mars fans will be interested to know that their lead singer, Brad Smith, plays bass and performs backing vocals for this act, whose perfect surf meets alt. rock debut single, fits so perfectly into the Kansas City urban dreamy/surf rock vibe.

Arctic Fox Drive

Track: Wheel of Fortune From: Wheel of Fortune (single) Label: Self released Out: Now

Arctic Fox Drive is the project of Carbondale, Illinois-based musician Brian Wilson, who mixes lo-fi rock, to the twee sensibilities of Tullycraft and the grumbling fuzz of Mo Troper. A totally endearing mix of sounds.

The Juniper Berries

Track: My Ambition From: My Ambition (EP) Label: Earth Libraries Out: Now

Superb juxtaposition of The Beatles melodies, 70s pop rock and a sort of glam-laden psyche-pop. One of those sounds that creates something new and invigorating by cherry picking the best of the old.

The Pierce Kingans

Track: Giving It Up (Delta Sessions) From: Delta Sessions (EP) Label: Boat Dreams on the Hill Out: To be announced

Wonderful track from the forthcoming Delta Sessions from Vancouver finest weirdy bedroom-poppers. Always full of melody, always full of obtuse, The Pierce Kingans are always totally endearing…Look out for their new compilation album that is out at the end of February 2022

Les Belmondo

Track: Rue St​.​Honoré From: Rue St​.​Honoré  (EP) Label: We Were Never Being Boring  Out: Now

Great mix of post-punk, The Fall ramshackle skew-indie and slack string jangle, all coursed through a sense of perfectly deranged dynamism.