Combining Eighties-referencing pop with the sheen of angular electronica, Chairlift could be regarded as an ‘easy’ listen. When their second album Something came out … More

Abyss is the kind of title you’d expect from someone like Chelsea Wolfe. The Grime and the Glow, Apocalypsis, Pain Is Beauty: the LA songwriter … More

The first time I ‘listened’ to Baby Dee I was asleep. A friend played ‘The Robin’s Tiny Throat’ to wake me up … More

When it gets to Timber Timbre’s music, ‘cinematic’ is the word you are looking for. Hot Dreams arrives after four captivating (and relatively … More

If Ariel Pink’s self-defined ‘retrolicious’ musical ventures keep captivating fans and commentators for good reasons, his personal crusade against politically correctness during PR … More

Hannes Norrvide’s Lust for Youth started off as a lo-fi project, with a murky sound loosely indebted to early synth-pop and darkwave. … More

In the amorphous landscape of alternative music, Xiu Xiu stand out as one of the best examples of why thinking through subversion … More

We use ‘dreamy’ so much as an adjective that we forget how genuinely dreamy things can actually be. With a … More

Majical Cloudz – songwriter Devon Welsh’s project featuring fellow Montreal resident Matthew Otto – made their statement clear with last year’s … More