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Album Review: The Jesus and Mary Chain reveal their stunning ‘Glasgow Eyes’ – an intoxicating mix of swagger and attitude with just a hint of reflection.

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News: Viji’s debut album is far from “Vanilla”

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Album review: Mildred Maude – ‘Sleepover’: From Cornwall with beautiful, incendiary love

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Fresh out of school and already finalists in the 2022 JJJ Unearthed competition, Adelaide’s Sunsick Daisy  released their spectacular debut EP ‘Breathe In…Breathe Out’ in 2023 (see my review here). They have now followed this up with their new EP entitled ‘Yonder’ and it reflects a greater maturity and growth but with the same exemplary songwriting …

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A firm favourite of the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia, T.G. Shand is the moniker of Ōtautahi/Christchurch resident Annemarie Duff, formerly of the legendary Melbourne shoegaze band Miniatures (on the iconic Saint Marie Records label), and she has returned after a year away with her new single ‘The Deadpan Break’. It’s a track which explores a whole …

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Multi-instrumentalist and producer Matthew Nowhere has just released the widescreen beauty of the album ‘Crystal Heights’: an ethereal collection of eighties-influenced shimmering synth pop that unfurls with a statuesque grace. it is incredible that this is a debut album. Opening track ‘Transmission’ is an atmospheric melange of sounds and a vocoded voice: a fittingly mysterious alien entry …

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Capricorn Coast band Tidal Peak , essentially the work of musician/producer Kyle Lacko, has just released an expansive, glittering album entitled ‘Treasureville’. It’s a collection of sparkling gems that seem to take inspiration from the glittering sun-soaked environment where it was written. Opening with ‘Capricorntown’, the geographic connection is evident. A swell of synths and strings create …

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The sun always shines brighter and the general misery of the world dissipates somehow when there is new material from the luminescent Fazerdaze (the nom de plume of Amelia Murray). Fazerdaze has just unveiled a new single, ‘Motorway’, out through Buttrfly/Virgin Music Group, a track that is delivered over fuzzy driving insistent guitars before heavenly synths drift in …

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A year after ‘Frog in Boiling Water‘, DIIV return with their first new release – ‘Return of Youth‘, a quietly devastating single that trades widescreen collapse for something far more personal. Unsurprisingly, the track is a masterclass in shoegaze’s more delicate corners: layered, intimate, and full of restraint. It’s a noticeable shift from the chaos …

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Long before they carved out a legacy as one of the defining names in shoegaze, Chapterhouse were just four gigs in and brimming with raw psychedelic energy. White House Demos, recorded live in a single day in January 1989 at The White House studio in Weston-super-Mare, captures the band in their earliest and perhaps most primal …

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One of our favourites, Parisian-based SCHØØL are back with a new, more reflective single ‘Gardener’ as they announce their debut album ‘I think my life has been ok’ through Géographie Records, set for release on 5 September 2025. ‘Gardener’ has a simple dappled guitar base with the distant, observant vocals augmented by a delicious harmony. …

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Reports of the demise of All India Radio have clearly been exaggerated with the various hints coming from All India Radio’s main presenter Martin Kennedy that fresh work was on the way, and today we are honoured to turn the dial to the video for the first single, ‘Catch The Breeze’, off the forthcoming album …

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