Girlpool EP

As the melodies drag and the chords are played with melancholy I’m transported back to sulky teenage days and dreams in the distance that seem to be drowned in bleak skies. Ominous tones and unsteady notes ring out from Girlpool, the LA duo comprised of Cleo Tucker (guitar) and Harmony Tividad (bass), whilst the twanging

Cristobal And The Sea

Tremoring vocals and giddy melodies, bopping rhythms and trippy choruses, they don’t lie when they say that Cristobal And The Sea sound like Fleetwood Mac had acid been their drug of choice. Part way through this first track the multicultural band and their European pretty psych suddenly gives way to stabs of beat perfect abruptness, which once

White Sands – The Wait

Three minutes of fuzzy frantic frustration from tripartite shoegaze supergroup White Sands. Formed of Conan Roberts (Mazes), Sophy Hollington (Novella) and John Arthur Webb (Male Bonding). The Wait is one of three tracks on their debut 7″, and sees the band members take influences from their other projects, but heighten the intensity, the burn and the

Rhyming imperfectly – an interview with Rainbow Reservoir

Rainbow Reservoir make music that sound like the name. Glistening, bright, bouncing with happiness, and with hidden depths. The baby of multi talented and multi instrumentalist Angela Space, the second EP, 400 Imperfect Rhymes was released on July 14th, with the cast of Oli Steadman, Rob Steadman and Duncan McNaughton all collaborating on production and performance.

La Bête Blooms – Wishing I Could Kill

Proof that beautiful songs are not always born in the most beautiful places, Hull based La Bete Blooms have released Wishing I Could Kill, just over four and a half minutes dreamy glistening pop a la The Cure, The Pixies and contemporaries The Pains of Being Pure of Heart. Tossing hi hats that quiver gently as