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  • Review: Reverend & The Makers – Mirrors

      Disclaimer: I arrived quite late to the Reverend & The Makers party. I think it was summer of 2009, Forge Press had me covering a gig at the O2 Academy in Sheffield. I only knew the one song with Tim from Bromheads (‘Bandits’) and had no idea what it was going to be. I enjoyed ‘Silence is Talking’, probably much…

  • Stream: Stove – Wet Food

    Ovlov is late. Actually, you could say they are the late band Ovlov. It was a fun ride, but now the cat’s out, milk’s been cancelled and the only forward address they left was the name Stove.  Stove is the Tom Baker of Ovlov’s Jon Pertwee. Still a dashing form of rancorous slacker rock, Stove has Steve Harlett becoming a…

  • Stream: Correatown – True North

    We’ve been fans of the dream pop misadventures (the best kind of adventures!) of Correatown, from the halcyon days of Pleiades  to the sobering Sleep and other drugs, it’s been a great trip. And said trip is still going strong. After a spot of refuelling, Correatown is back with a brand new video, ‘True North’, a little taster…

  • Review: White Reaper – White Reaper Does it Again

      Ever since I first heard White Reaper, I associated them with the height of night time. As you can gather from White Reaper Does it Again‘s oddly memetic album cover, either they read my review or I somehow tapped into their consciousness. But hubris and telepathic abilities aside, what you really get from White Reaper Does…

  • Stream: Silver Shields – I wonder if you’re thinking of me now

    Holyyyyyy…it’s not even Autumn and the gorgeous sounds of shoegaze are already springing by. Silver Shields (“available for funerals only”) light an ecumenical incense. Its aromas bring chilling arrangements and expansive smoky melodies that are both melancholic and full of longing. ANYWAYS, here’s Silver Shields’ lovely new track: So, yeah, if y’all can bring Silver Shields to Mexico, lemme know. ‘I…

  • Stream: Birthmark – Find Yourself

    Somewhere near a dark Scottish loch, a man looks at the sky and wonders :”Why am I not part of Clan Kinsella?” The family name that has given us musical treats like Owen, American Football, Cap’n Jazz, Joan of Arc also includes Nate Kinsella, who has his own very cool project called Birthmark.  The last Birthmark album, Antibodies (our review), was a blast of joyful…

  • Looking back at: Shiner – Starless

      Editor’s note: We are big on Space Rock in this Shithole of a Website (TM). It’s probably the combination of shoegaze emotions and posthardcore sensibilities that make this genre such a joy to listen to. Hum, Failure, Castor, The Life and Times, Shiner, Withershins, Centaur, Vast Robot Armies, Withershins, Gazelle, National Skyline…you name ’em, we…

  • Stream: Moving Panoramas – One

        We might be hardwired to think of dreamgaze as shoegaze’s soft-speaking sibling, but you really don’t need distortions to be heavy. It’s the words what matter, really, and when those chained sentences are enveloped in atmospheric wonderlands like the ones Moving Panoramas create, they linger on. ‘One’ is the first of many great songs from Moving…

  • Stream: Hey Sholay – Eyes for me

    It has been a long road, but the honeysuckle psych poppy Hey Sholay comes back from the woods. ‘Eyes for me’ is a trippy honeycomb that should remind you that the beloved quintet can make a hook, then turn it into fried gold.  If tha fancies it, you can download it from their soundcloud

  • Video Round Up: The Eastern Sea, Beach Day, Alex Napping, La Chance, Motes

      Hey ho, away we go! It’s another one from our “let’s keep bands and PRs happy with a quick post!” book of blogging! That is: VIDEO ROUND UP! First, we’ve got a brand new single by Cromwellian chamber popites (!) The Eastern Sea. ‘Silver Spoon’ spearheads a cavalcade of new tracks that we will hype, hyperbole…