Express Office Portico are a Nottingham-based indie pop band who I first discovered for the blog in June through their disco funk track Cosmic Joke. Now they’re back with a fresh one that confronts the duality in all of us. It’s called Forget The Name.
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Los Angeles, USA-based alternative rock group The Loud Bangs first hit my radar back in June when their EP Highway Safety Films left me highly impressed. Their sound combines a love of ’90s shoegaze and German club music to create something that feels wholly unique. A couple of months later, they’re back with another EP release. It’s called The Alice Experience.
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Based in New York City, USA, Dreamphone are the duo of composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Seb Zel and vocalist Hattie Simon. Their experimental sound is influenced by the likes of Sufjan Stevens and James Blake. Their latest single is called Green Lights Flashing.
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1st Base Runner, real name Tim Husmann, is an Austin, USA-based alternative rock singer songwriter who I first discovered for the blog through his Radiohead-esque Near Me. Now he’s back with a new EP. It’s called Light Roars. Here’s my track by track rundown.
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Warahenege, real name Praveen Somarathne, is a Manchester-based dream pop artist who I first discovered for the blog at the end of last year through his track Skyscrapers And Oceans. It features on his recently released debut EP, so I knew I had to give it a listen. It’s called Velvet, Black, Ignite.
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De Antiquis et Novis, real name Matthias Schorer, is a Munich, Germany-based electronic artist who I first discovered earlier this year through his delightfully lush track Afterglow. The track opens his album of the same name and when I saw it had been released, I knew I had to give it a listen. Here’s my track by track review.
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Eria HummingBird is an Albi, France based composer and producer who likes to weave a tale about himself as much as within his music. When he pitched his album to me, he claimed that he had once been world famous, working with the biggest names in music, but a virus has wiped his name from existence. An intriguing story, and one that made me want to listen to the album. It’s called Lo-Fi Stop.
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The Glass Pavilion is the solo instrumental project of Leeds-based former York University student Ashley Owens. It emerged as the silver lining to a medically-induced retirement from guitar playing for Ashley, forcing a move into electronic sounds. His new album is called When The Blazing Sun Is Gone.
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Based in Los Angeles, USA, Yukkon is an indie folk singer songwriter whose new track Under The Sun is a take on the expansiveness of the Californian desert.
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