I'm off to sunny (hopefully) Barcelona next week to go to the ever 'Pitchfork-esque' indie hipster fest that is Primavera. Big acts like The National, Simian Mobile Disco, Interpol, PJ Harvey, and The Flaming Lips will play along more underground, left of centre acts. In the run up to the festival, I made the customary 'festival playlist' with some of my favourites and tracks from new acts I haven’t heard of before. That traditional playlist lead me to find the Finnish group, Rubik.
Hooded Fang have been bubbling under the indie pop surface since releasing their first EP in 2008. But the Canadians only just grabbed my attention with their debut album, 'Hooded Fang Album'. It came out last month and it's part of that shambolic, loose guitar pop that has become so popular in the last couple years, but it has subtle layers bringing fairly simple song structures to more atmospheric places.
Ok Ok...I haven’t wrote a ‘fresh meet’ feature in a loooong time. I’ve been too busy listening to the shear amount of Irish material that’s been released in the last few months. So what better way to start back than to (further) introduce you to an old Irish favourite, Halves.
A band ATL have previously given heavy rotation, their debut album ‘It Goes, It Goes (Forever & Ever)’ is finally about to arrive (Oct 29th) and it see’s the Dublin troupe truly move into a whole other sphere.
Their brand of electronic tinged, string layered post rock is reminiscent of Icelandic pop experimentalists Múm, with the soft & sombre moments of Danish outfit Efterklang and of course some of the more traditional post rock stylings of Mogwai.
The ATL team write about anything and everything relevant to the Northern Irish music scene, the show itself and possibly some random stuff besides, and invite you to comment, discuss and participate.
...One field for camping. One field for parking. Two sheds for venues, a tiny cottage attic for venue number three. Then numerous little out houses for exhibitions and movie screenings...
...I hadn't noticed the absence of twee in my life, until I clicked on a video for what could be the new face of the genre - Forest City Lovers. Have I had twee withdrawl?!...
...Opening up with a wah drenched guitar and followed by a tumbling drum into, images of a hazy analogue tape studio and Woodstock-esque droves come to mind...
...you didn't need to have a big label behind you to warrant a music video. Anybody could upload material, prompting low budget visuals for dodgy and great bands alike...
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