18.08.2025-GLOBELAMP Romantic Cancer (Nefarious,2018)

 

LO FI / PSYCHEDELIC

   The title of this album reveals all you need to know about Globelamp’s latest release: it is a collection of love songs laced with a heartbreak that consumes all of the record’s other elements. California singer-songwriter Elizabeth La Fey, also known as Globelamp, missed the mark on her third full-length album, “Romantic Cancer.” The record is completely stripped, comprised of basic acoustic riffs, sporadic vocals and guitar plucking.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/fx350w

17.08.2025-HYPE WILLIAMS Rainbow Edition (Big Dada,2017)

 

HYPNAGOGIC POP

   Although lighter in its detached emotional touch, whoever’s making this, the mystery of the music dovetails with the puzzle of Hype Williams as perfectly as it ever has – 20 weird ideas of hypnagogic pop at different stages of gestation.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/fty076

14.08.2025-PABLO NOUVELLE All I Need (Armada,2016)

 

DOWNTEMPO

   Pablo Nouvelle is a moniker for Fabio Friedli from Bern, Switzerland. A former architecture student turned film-maker and musician, Fabio makes songs from a combination of new sounds and old samples. He works under the name Pablo Nouvelle, out of a love of the French cinematic nouvelle vague of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

   The début album "All I Need" was released in 2016 via Armada Music and it features vocals by Sam Wills, James Gruntz, Josef Salvat, Liv and Lulu James amongst others.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/d86g4r

13.08.2025-ADA LEA What We Say In Private (Saddle Creek,2019)

 

INDIE ROCK

   The title of Ada Lea’s debut album hints at late night confessions and intimacies. What We Say in Private does have these moments, especially on the solo blues of ‘Yanking The Pearls Off Around My Neck’. Yet initially conceived as a concept record of two distinct sides, it’s also infused with breezy colour.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/wv0ded

11.08.2025-IOANNA GIKA Thalassa (Sargent House,2019)

 

DREAM POP

   The album is named in honour of the Greek spirit of the sea, which I mention if only to highlight the sense of aural vastness and awe that Gika is establishing here. The epic opening track ‘Roseate’, in all its sophistication and variety, complexity and beauty, acts as a sonic manifesto. It points the way towards what Gika intends to do with the rest of the album. The sound is both expansive and complex, atmospheric and soundscape-y. It is all absorbing and overwhelming.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/xik60j

08.08.2025-MAGNETIC MAN Magnetic Man (Startime International,2010)

 

DUBSTEP

   With amiable singles “I Need Air” and “Perfect Stranger”, Magnetic Man redefined dubstep and ruled the airwaves, adding vocals to an otherwise instrumental class and making their eponymous debut as accessible as possible. Magnetic Man merges a heavy fixation of drum & bass with glitchy, electro-pop enthusiasm. They enlist vocals from rising British pop stars Angela Hunte and Katy B, r&b soul slinger John Legend, reggae tyrant Ms. Dynamite, and squeaky, 8-bit addict Sam Frank. Though it’s assuredly intended for clubs, save for opener “Flying Into Tokyo”, Magnetic Man diverges in varying styles that make this record multi-dimensional, which might disappoint some hardcore dubstep fans.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/5n2gyc

07.08.2025-PASCAL PINON Sundur (Morr Music,2016)

 

FOLK POP

   There is something exceptionally Icelandic about Pascal Pinon right from the start of Sundur. You can hear Sigur Ros, Björk and the fascinating island’s landscape and culture deep inside the bones of the band and the music it makes.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/s6ez31