Archivio mensile:ottobre 2024

Alpaca Sports – Tomorrow I’ll Be Fine (single)

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Alpaca Sports are Andreas Jonsson, Amanda Åkerman and Lisle Mitnik (Tiny Fireflies, Fireflies, Very Truly Yours). It’s six years since their second album, From Paris With Love, came out and one can imagine that their twee pop formula may have changed, matured, grown up. With their new song Tomorrow I’ll Be Fine, out today on Elefant Recors, it’s (thankfully) very soon clear that it’s not the case. Listening to indie pop with adolescent characteristics is a source of comfort and relief for everyone of us and Alpaca Sports once again don’t let us down. Since they might be the group that currently best represents that crystalline pop sound (think of Aztec Camera, The Field Mice, Belle And Sebastian, Orange Juice, Sambassadeur), that’s why the arrival of new songs is such big news for all of us grown up adolescents. Tomorrow I’ll Be Fine is the first advance single of their upcoming new album, and it makes all the good things about the band clear: their sensitivity, exquisite vocals, jangling guitars, unforgettable choruses, and a mix of drum machines and live drums.

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The Declining Winter – Mother’s Son (single premiere)

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The Declining Winter, the project of of Richard Vincent Adams, former member of Hood, is back, just one year after the mighty Really Early ,Really Late -his first proper album since 2018- with a new single and the announcement of a new album.
Today is out, on all streaming platforms, Mother’s Son, a reworked version of a song whose demo was out in July 2022, following the sad news of Richard’s mother Jean passing away in April that year. The (sad) song is the first taste of the new album, Last April, (previously described as an EP of very very sad songs in collaboration with Sarah Kemp aka Brave Timbers) which will be out on Second Language Music November 1st 2024.

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(Make Me A) TRISTE© Mixtape Episode 174: Zenxith

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Zenxith

Daniel McGee aka Zenxith is a 22 year old indie pop songwriter/musician from North East England. The prolific independent D.I.Y. lofi indie pop artist (in the last two years he recorded five album, a couple of compilations and various singles) makes gentle lofi indie pop with jangle melodies & very direct lead lines to accompany the multi tracked exasperated vocals, covered in tambourines. No band, no studio, all solo & done in the bedroom & recorded on a phone, Zenxith also uses a drum machine for all his songs. Despite the young age of its composer, McGee’s music seems to arrive directly from the golden age of indie music, the period from 1982 and 1987, the five years that changed indie guitar music forever.
His latest album, From The Corners Of My Cold Room was out on September 13rd and it’s self released. Check also the great double album reissue I Was Named After Daniel Treacy / Bonny’s Garden Party, which was out on Subjangle in February.

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