‘I’ll start with a scale pattern… and once I’ve found the stride, I simply close my eyes and drift away, simply leave the work to my fingers. And somewhere along the line a kind of notion will prick my ears.’…
Album | Tom Brosseau – Grass Punks
#342 Tokyo Police Club – Hot Tonight
Tokyo Police Club are from Canada but this slice of pure pop is soaked in California sun. In fact, if it were playing beneath shots of beautiful people frolicking in the sun in a some sort of teen romance, you…
#341 David Bronson – One Simple Myth
We’re always interested to see someone doing something a bit different, and this video to accompany David Bronson’s ‘One Simple Myth’ – which marries live action, animation and comic book art – is certainly that. The discomfiting effect of the…
Album | Snowbird – Moon
Snowbird, the project of Simon Raymonde and Stephanie Dosen, create music lush instrumentation, with an abundance of echo, both on guitars and vocals. Electronica fused with a strong folk song-writing style gives Moon a distinctive sound, and makes for an…
#340 Colin Macleod – California
Colin Macleod released some material a while back under the name The Boy Who Trapped The Sun, but now he’s dropped the pseudonym and we can understand why – if we were making music as lovely as this, we’d want…
#339 John Grant – Glacier
Glacier is the closing track to John Grant’s second record Pale Green Ghosts, which was released on Bella Union last year. We love the accompanying video, which shows the struggles and successes of the gay rights movement. Vladimir Putin could…