East Coast psych-pop trio Museyroom have shared their single Ballad, the first taste of their long awaited full length debut, Pearly Whites. Due out (after a wait of close on six years), on March 25th via Grind Select. Ballad is a sweetly judged slow-burner, building to a yearning climax and awash with melancholy. Dive in… 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 60 – Museyroom
As Caviare Days would put it, take some North American surf, South American tropicalia, psychedelic fuzzy guitars, floating vocals and a tough-to-beat kinda groove, mix it all in and what you get is pretty much exactly what this band is all about. It is definitely what is being heard on new single More Than One out now on label259. Listen here. 100 Posts in 100 … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 59 – Caviare Days
London-based indie band Three Girl Rhumba’s charming debut single Minnie Driver is awash with layers of sun soaked guitar and a vocal melody with hints of Fleet Foxes. Have a listen. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 57 – Three Girl Rhumba
Taking her cues from such artists as Neko Case, Jenny Lewis, Spoon, and Wilco, Prickle is 17 year old Emily Wilson from Melbourne, Victoria. Tell Me Why, is her first single, and is a study of contrasting personalities and the thoughts that follow. Honest vocals engage a story telling voice speaking to the listener in conversational style. Initially sketched out with a laid back acoustic feel, … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 56 – Prickle
Power-pop five piece Universal Thee return with their sophomore album, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, the follow up to the critically lauded debut Back To Earth. The album is due for release on 19th February via Eventual Heirs Records. Harnessing the influences of bands such as Teenage Fanclub, Pixies and current favourites Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, the band have released … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 53 – Universal Thee
New Zealand’s Maple Syrup began a couple of years ago when Vera Ellen and Jerry Ramirez were experimenting with tape recordings on an old 4-track. Influenced by Ween and Bob Dylan they initially wrote lo-fi folk music with tuned up pitch and nonsensical lyrics. At this time they also consumed large amounts of the aforementioned maple syrup and hence it seemed like a fitting name to … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 49 – Maple Syrup
There Is No Mountain, are married duo who specialize in complex psych-pop with a healthy dose of folk rock that draws comparisons to Dirty Projectors, Buke & Gase and Fleet Foxes. Listen to new single Cat’s Away, which is full of playful vocals and fingerpicked guitars that build up reverberant layers and percussion following a sparse and reflective intro. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 46 – There Is No Mountain
Space Shark hail from Portland, Oregon and have just released their new EP Ghosts. Wow Is Me comes from it and is an irresistibly bouncy slice of indie-pop that fizzes out of the blocks and doesn’t make the mistake of sacrificing melody for energy. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 41 – Space Shark
With hints of Real Estate, Beach House and early ’00s Brit-pop, the debut EP from London brothers Over Sands is well worth checking out. Check out Two Cranes from it below. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 35 – Over Sands
Words are inadequate when the world loses someone like David Bowie. A visionary, icon, innovator and musical genius. Even this past summer he soundtracked our holiday drives around the orange groves of Valencia, the whole car singing along to Space Oddity and the Jean Genie… Here then, in no particular order, are twenty of our favourite David Bowie songs. … Continue reading RiP: David Bowie
The Mad Mackerel 