03.07.2025-IDIOT GLEE Idiot Glee (Hop Hop,2016)

 

INDIE ROCK

   Idiot Glee is the musical nom de plume of James Friley. After a first listen to Idiot Glee’s new, self-titled album, the glee doesn’t immediately jump out at you. But after repeat listens you start to find it in odd places. A melody here, poignant vocal there and then suddenly you realise that you’ve played Idiot Glee about 30 times, and each time you’ve gleaned something new from it.

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01.07.2025-ALEX WINSTON Bingo! (Rat Rizzo,2024)

 

INDIE POP

   Written over the course of three years during a mercurial period in her life—which she lovingly refers to as her “swamp era”—the album is packed with sonic elements of old school Americana, psychedelia and an untethered wiliness, all anchored by Winston’s assured pop sensibilities.  Bingo! is an unfiltered snapshot of Alex’s nosedive into the uncertainty and discomfort of growth. The 10-track project is both nostalgic and freshly compelling in its honesty and hard earned optimism.

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28.06.2025-MISS TESS Darling, Oh Darling (Not On Label,2009)

 

JAZZ / SWING / COUNTRY

   Boston singer-songwriter Miss Tess has always had the pipes and the taste to carry off her various ventures into country, blues, and multi-hued swing, but Darling, Oh Darling underlines her overall sound. In the past, that sound has been defined by her voice and the sweet strum and sting of her vintage Weymann electric guitar, but on this set of 12 originals (plus one alternate), it’s the arrangements, with some carefully deployed special guests, that make the difference.

   That means various combinations of growling muted trombone and trumpet, swing clarinet, huffing Ben Webster–like tenor sax, boogie-woogie piano, pedal steel guitar, subtly mixed ooh-ooh-bop-bop-bop backing vocals, and brush-driven drums. There’s also a spare banjo ballad and, in “I Don’t Wanna See You Anymore,” her most overt rockabilly rave-up, a brash kiss-off that’s a departure from her usual wistful resignation and wised-up optimism.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/8arhcl

27.06.2025-CATS ON TREES Neon (Tot Ou Tard,2019)

 

POP

    From resolutely organic tips to synthetic notes, the duo combines different sounds with English words for a successful result.

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24.06.2025-ANNELIES MONSERE I Sigh, I Resign (Horn Of Plenty,2024)

 

EXPERIMENTAL

   I Sigh, I Resign is yet another raw and intimate album that retains the signature style of the Belgian musician Annelies Monseré. A follow-up to last year’s stunning, ‘Mares’ which featured in several end-of-year lists, I Sigh, I Resign is a melancholy LP that once again pulls out from the deep and emotional crevices of Annelies creativity and musicality to give birth to a collection of tracks which are nothing short of powerful.

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22.06.2025-NATHAN FAKE Providence (Ninja Tune,2017)

 

ELECTRONIC

   Providence is a cerebral album with lots of heart: an emotional tonic for the mind that calls to mind some of Autrechre’s best work. It is also a welcome return for Fake, who now continues – hiatus notwithstanding – to build his reputation as one of the UK’s most interesting electronic voices.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/nfbhj5

21.06.2015-ALICIA WALTER I Am Alicia (Sooper,2021)

 

ART POP

   Simultaneously retro, avant-garde, and wide-ranging, I Am Alicia is captivating, not only for its exhilarating harmonics but because of Alicia Walter’s bravura voice.

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