Twenty-plus years of stories, twenty-plus years of perfecting music’s craft, Ski Lodge’s Big Heart is exactly what a debut record should be: the culmination of a creative force’s life on this planet. Andrew Marr, the multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter behind Ski Lodge, has created a deeply personal record that overflows with lush melodies and insatiably catchy choruses. His songs occasionally deal with [...]
Archive for: Indie Pop
Superhumanoids
In the summer of 2010, Superhumanoids was birthed under the hazy air and bright blue skies of Los Angeles. A fascination for electronic sounds, instruments, pedals, and more, aesthetically united Max, Sarah, and Cameron. Like a petri dish growing each day, the band spent their time together intertwining and experimenting with their R&B upbringings and love [...]
Hibou
Having spent a year touring North America and Europe as the drummer of Craft Spells (Captured Tracks), the time came when 19 year old Peter Michel, aka Hibou, felt his life with the band had ran its course, and began creating his own music. January saw the release of AA-side single ‘Glow’ / ‘Hollow’, which The Line of [...]
Trails And Ways
I’m pretty excited about Trails And Ways. Their Trilingual EP just came out this week on Non•Market Records, a community based label out of Oakland, CA. The latest single from the ep is “Como Te Vas“. It’s a dreamy Spanish pop tune, made from circling vocal chants and wavering tides of synths. Inspired by Emma’s last days before [...]
Banana Beach
Banana Beach is an experimental pop quintet out of Stockholm, Sweden, just done independently recording their debut EP titled ‘Window Licking’ in an office on an abandoned floor inside a factory complex, situated in the industrial southern suburbs of the Swedish capital. Bananas and beaches not being very present around these parts, the yearning for change and happiness can certainly be [...]
Sam Vicari
Sam Vicari keeps it simple. The Chicago-based Vicari’s songs have an electric pulse, but bear the imprint of a singer/songwriter, with themes touching on heartbreak, alienation and Midwestern ennui. That’s not to say that the record is a sad-sack, cry in your beer lament. Vicari harnesses the power pop hooks and sunny on the outside exterior of classic 90s alternative [...]
Field Mouse
Field Mouse is a four-piece dream pop band from Brooklyn, NY. Seamlessly interweaving influences from shoegaze, indie, and power pop, Field Mouse offers lush sonic textures and expansive soundscapes to complement the airy, wistful vocals ofsinger/guitarist Rachel Browne. Through complex and delicate harmonies, the songwriting of Browne and guitarist Andrew Futral breathes new life into common themes of lost love and renewal. The band has been honing its sound since its formation in 2010, and has solidified its lineup with the recent [...]
Golden Grrrls
Glasgow’s Golden Grrrls have spent the last few years thrilling pop spotters with a series of excellent singles and tapes. What began as bedroom guitar experimentation soon bloomed into a fully-formed pop language inspired by the 80s New Zealand and Australian indie pop scenes, DIY punk and Glasgow’s own rich pop history (think The Vaselines, The Pastels). For Golden Grrrls the [...]
Statistics
Statistics is the solo project of singer-songwriter, Denver Dalley. His latest release, Peninsula, is reminiscent of the electronic infused rock-n-roll that defined his decade-old debut. But Statistics has matured into something vast, detailed, and deliberate, drawing inspiration from all corners of Dalley’s nomadic musical career. Dalley grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. He began making music in [...]
Wild Combination
‘Whole Lotta Truth’ is released on June 10th and is the lead track from Wild Combination’s forthcoming ‘Pulses’ EP, which is set for release in July. Wild Combination are Daniel Williams (guitar), Christian Wright (keys and vocals) and Terry Clark (Drums and vocals). The Essex based trio have recently supported both Alt-J and Fenech Soler and have been described by Q Magazine as “lovely spidery dream-pop”. To date the [...]
