We just passed the April 2023 Record Store Day, and while I compile my thoughts on some of the items I picked up, I figured I’d take a look back at an item from last year’s haul: Spaceman Demo Mixes by Spiritualized, which is somewhere between an EP and a Maxi-Single. This one was the Black Friday RSD, which took place November 25, 2022.
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Last year, Belle And Sebastian released what I dub as their best LP since 2006’s The Life Pursuit. That album is called A Bit of Previous. Then, back in January, they followed it up with another new release, Late Developers (which I reviewed a few months ago). Today I’m taking a look at a bit of their previous (see what I did there?) album Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance.
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Dear Catastrophe Waitress is the sixth studio album by one of my favorite bands — the Scottish indie pop group Belle and Sebastian. As we are at the 20th anniversary this year — it was originally released on October 6, 2003 — I figured it was time to take a look back and run down 5 interesting and/or strange facts about the album.
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If you’ve been following my music blog FensePost or my YouTube channel for any given length of time, you may have heard me call out Blonde Redhead as being among my favorite bands. Today I’m going to take a look at their 7-inch single for “Slogan” backed with “Limited Conversation” on Touch And Go Records.
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Craft Spells is an indie pop band hailing from Stockton, CA and founded by singer-songwriter Justin Vallesteros in 2009. The band’s EP Gallery was released in 2012 on Captured Tracks, and features their unique blend of dream pop and indie rock, as well as Justin’s songwriting prowess. Released in 2012, Gallery features six tracks that transport listeners to a nostalgic world with lyrics that delve into familiar themes of heartbreak and self-reflection.
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I can’t think of shoegaze as a sub-genre without thinking of three instrumental bands in its original late 80s early 90s heyday: My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, and this band: Ride. All three made a resurgence in the 2010s, releasing new music and reissuing old. The latest to resurface is this, Ride’s simply titled 4 EPs.
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I remember writing about how much people raved about The Men’s third LP Open Your Heart back in 2013, as the band prepared to release New Moon. I likened some of their work to Ty Segall, for better or worse. In retrospect, the two artists are quite different aside from fitting into the quite extensive genre of garage rock.
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Exlovers was a five-piece indie rock band from London, UK, consisting of active from 2007 to 2013, during which they released several singles, EPs, and one album. The album, Moth, is set for its first ever vinyl pressing this month from P-Vine in Japan. So, to bide my time as I eagerly await its arrival, we’ll be taking a look at one of the EPs — You Forget So Easily.
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I’ve been going on a binge of shoegaze of late. As an avid record collector, that means picking up some elusive albums from the original shoegaze era. I already have there three that seem to be the ones that top everyone’s list: Loveless by My Bloody Valentine, Souvlaki by Slowdive, and Nowhere by Ride. Today, I’m going to look at an album that tends to be in the top 5 — The Comforts of Madness by Pale Saints.
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I recall turning 27 and recounting how that was the same age as so many other artists who passed away. Brian Jones (the original drummer of The Rolling Stones), Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain. Even Amy Winehouse who, born in 1983, was younger than me at her time of death — yet they all seemed so much older than me at the time of their passing, so much older even now, looking back. That brings me to today’s artist: Broadcast.
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