Essential Listening: The Microphones
Alt-rock legends The Microphones are the latest artist to be featured in our Essential Listening series, with their emotive and dissonant use of garage rock making them worth a space on your playlist.
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Dara Hughes
Car Seat Headrest’s ‘Making A Door Less Open’: overblown and underwhelming
A fusion of new electronic synths combined with their old indie lamentation - experimentation? Sure. Excellence? Not quite.
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‘The New Abnormal’ review: seven years on, The Strokes are still cornerstones of millennium cool
The New Abnormal breaks The Strokes' seven-year silence with a burst of infectious pop-rock. And whilst their melodies may be borrowed, the album's energy is all their own.
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Music of the World: Japanese ambient
Music of the World brings you to Japan; a genre filled with energy, experimentation, and environmental influences.
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“Intoxicating psych-pop” – Why Melody’s Echo Chamber should be your next listen
Melody’s Echo Chamber is a self titled record released in 2012 that combines in the most intoxicating way the enveloping dissonance of shoegaze with the dreaminess of psych-pop. The album, dreamt up by French producer Melody Prochet, flows like water from love-filled track to lovelorn track, for loveless people who still believe in joy, and creates the kind of indescribable sonic aura every psych artist seeks.
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