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  • Premiere: Moving Panoramas – Radar.

    The amazing Austin trio, Moving Panoramas, return with another video, this time around for the mesmerising ‘Radar’. One of the more introspective songs from One, (our review) ‘Radar’ re-visits those wistful moments when yearning takes over your mind. Reality blurs aways, trascending into a hazy territory, full of wonder and dread. Just like swimming into unknown waters, whether…

  • Stream: Tom Baxendale – All my nightmares

      After an extensive tour of duty with The Payroll Union and a blitzkrieg with The Rainy Day Club, Tom Baxendale decides to duke it out by himself, with a new album. In the city a short time ago, out September on Backwater Collective, finds Baxendale exploring human conflict, both in its substantial and emotional forms. Harking to the classic organ heavy sounds of 60s pop,…

  • Stream: Seize The Chair – Secret Sister

      Long time coming, but the fine people of Seize The Chair have a brand new song and we’re over the moon about this. ‘Secret Sister’ reaffirms Seize The Chair‘s place in the vivacious scale. Akin to a hyperactive Tasmanian devil, the band’s penchant for energetic statements clearly shines through, piercing through walls. Matthew Johnson masterfully catches what it feels…

  • Review: The Fervor – Nightfall in the Kali Yuga

    After a five year period of radio silence (barring a re-release), The Fervor are back with a three track EP of Americana goodness. Nightfall in the Kali Yuga is a quick drive through the blue tinted fields, a static buzz far in the distance, signalling a change. And that change comes in the shape of an EP. ‘Sweet Thing’,…

  • Stream: Stove – Stupidest

      Once the Rhodes Colossus that was Ovlov collapsed into the sea, news that Steve Hartlett had enough material for another album were well known. He Stove as the name for this new chapter in his life and Is Stupider was the name of the album. It was a great ride in and out Hartlett’s mind. And we were…

  • Review: Blood Sport – Axe Laid to the Root

    There is something fascinating about the angularity of the music by Blood Sport. By all means a band that iterates endlessly like a Sierpinski triangle, Blood Sport are a musical fractal, weaved layer upon layer, collapsing in an orderly fashion. Axe Laid to the Root continues to explore their droning afro-beat experiment, a gestalt entity that thrashes around in controlled…

  • Stream: Leapling – Hey Sister

    Many fantastic cocktails made by the fine bands in Exploding in Sound Records have been served this year. 2 Inch Astronaut, akin to an LSD spiked fruit punch. Kal Marks, a ginger beer with a whiskey chaser, still burning your throat. Washer, that hair of the dog michelada you drink to face back reality. Palehound , finally getting a release…

  • Review: La Sera – Music for Listening to Music to

      Six years on and Katy Goodman‘s trip through sixties’ pop, jangly seventies’ dream pop and visceral punk takes a turn into the gravel and dirt roads of alt-country. This is Music for listening to music to and, unsurprisingly, it’s a enjoyable romp. Guided by she of the fiery hair and fierce strumming, La Sera‘s change from dream pop…

  • Stream: Belafonte Sensacional – Torreón

    The folk genre always seems to strike a chord in Mexico’s heart. Chava Flores’ jocular anecdotes peppered with our vernacular. Rockdrigo González, who journeyed from Tampico to his doom in Mexico City, also tapped into this vein. Enter Belafonte Sensacional, who follows this tradition of taking lyrical snapshots of Mexico’s weird and wonderful fauna and wrap them into folk songs about…

  • Stream: Wot Gorilla? – …And then there were three… / Skiddaw

    Tuesday is the February of the week. This is not up for debate. Wot Gorilla? are wonderful dealers of Math Rock. This is not for debate either. Just fresh off the oven, ‘…and then there were three…’ is a gentle reminder of the industrial strength of Wot Gorilla?’s intricate web of riffs, drumming and shushed vocals. The…