Noise in the sunshine. Fort Lauderdale's Ouija are among the few contemporary guitar bands on myspace that candidly list Nirvana as one of their main influences, but in this case it would be quite a tough job to deny that anyway. Though I wouldn't dare to call this "grunge", Ouija's approach to melody structures of utmost beauty within noisy and rough surroundings bears nonetheless a striking resemblance to early 90s northwestern rock. And without doubt, despite all the careless lo-fi attitude, this is pop in its purest form. This is most significant as regards Belladonna: if you are patient enough (and you should be), out of all that hiss and roar an absolute gem of a tune will unfurl.
Thanks to the marvelous Ashtapes for directing us to Ouija.
Noise in the sunshine. Fort Lauderdale's Ouija are among the few contemporary guitar bands on myspace that candidly list Nirvana as one of their main influences, but in this case it would be quite a tough job to deny that anyway. Though I wouldn't dare to call this "grunge", Ouija's approach to melody structures of utmost beauty within noisy and rough surroundings bears nonetheless a striking resemblance to early 90s northwestern rock. And without doubt, despite all the careless lo-fi attitude, this is pop in its purest form. This is most significant as regards Belladonna: if you are patient enough (and you should be), out of all that hiss and roar an absolute gem of a tune will unfurl.
Thanks to the marvelous Ashtapes for directing us to Ouija.
I'm not sure if you should quote me on this in December, but now, right at this very moment, this most amazing thing ranks very high among my records of 2010: Nika Rosa Danilova aka Zola Jesus and Pocahaunted's Amanda Brown have joined their witchcraft forces, and just as expected, a collaboration between our most beloved Wisconsin gothic vibe and one of LA's most exciting tropical haze drone psychedelia couldn't result in anything less than total awesomeness.
The LA Vampires & Zola Jesus EP has been released by NFOP favourites Not Not Fun as a 12 inch, limited to 600 items. This is deep, this is dark, this is absolutely brilliant.
I'm not sure if you should quote me on this in December, but now, right at this very moment, this most amazing thing ranks very high among my records of 2010: Nika Rosa Danilova aka Zola Jesus and Pocahaunted's Amanda Brown have joined their witchcraft forces, and just as expected, a collaboration between our most beloved Wisconsin gothic vibe and one of LA's most exciting tropical haze drone psychedelia couldn't result in anything less than total awesomeness.
The LA Vampires & Zola Jesus EP has been released by NFOP favourites Not Not Fun as a 12 inch, limited to 600 items. This is deep, this is dark, this is absolutely brilliant.
Be careful not to burn your fingers, cause this one is really fresh out of the oven: Dreaming is the brand new tune by our favourite Massachusetts teenagers The CQ, introduced to the readers of these insignificant pages just a few days ago. And perfectly dreamy shoegaze it is indeed.
Be careful not to burn your fingers, cause this one is really fresh out of the oven: Dreaming is the brand new tune by our favourite Massachusetts teenagers The CQ, introduced to the readers of these insignificant pages just a few days ago. And perfectly dreamy shoegaze it is indeed.
Some fine fuzzed-out lo-fi summer tune leaning heavily toward all kinds of tropical offsprings, delivered freshly from the Sunflower State, brought into these spheres by the presumably single performing mystery named Katrina Stonehart. All information that we've got is that Katrina will have a 7 inch out called Japaneseloveshow on Amdiscs sometime very soon along with two extremely limited split cassettes with Vehicle Blues (A. Carina Tapes) and House Paint (Felt Cat Tapes), the latter including the lush Freesoup that you can download below.
Some fine fuzzed-out lo-fi summer tune leaning heavily toward all kinds of tropical offsprings, delivered freshly from the Sunflower State, brought into these spheres by the presumably single performing mystery named Katrina Stonehart. All information that we've got is that Katrina will have a 7 inch out called Japaneseloveshow on Amdiscs sometime very soon along with two extremely limited split cassettes with Vehicle Blues (A. Carina Tapes) and House Paint (Felt Cat Tapes), the latter including the lush Freesoup that you can download below.
In the ever vibrant capital of Canadian creativity (sorry Toronto), four guys and one girl, despite being pretty young, create tunes that could have been written 25 years earlier: Silly Kissers is the name of this splendid group, and the songs are perfect little synth pop gems, cheerful at first approach but with subtle twists beyond the surface, and above all with an amazing sense for song structure and melody. The great Arbutus that have already blessed us with Grimes' amazing tape earlier have released Silly Kissers' debut 10 inch Precious Necklace. Listen to two of the beauties below, and don't miss the nice and easy video for Ghost in Your Heart.
Also from Montreal hail Cherry Chapstick, a pretty busy and ambitious trio that recently seem to have jumped on the hip synth bandwagon as well after some explorations into rather traditional shoegazey indie rock (though I don't know in which direction they're actually heading now), but with a rather 90s feel to it, which is, no doubt, just as fine. They have a 7 inch out, and a-side The Line is a brilliantly chilled and sleazy late night jam, while the flip side is a "re-imagination" of Silly Kissers' EP title track Precious Necklace, a pretty unapologetic four-to-the-floor call to dance.
In the ever vibrant capital of Canadian creativity (sorry Toronto), four guys and one girl, despite being pretty young, create tunes that could have been written 25 years earlier: Silly Kissers is the name of this splendid group, and the songs are perfect little synth pop gems, cheerful at first approach but with subtle twists beyond the surface, and above all with an amazing sense for song structure and melody. The great Arbutus that have already blessed us with Grimes' amazing tape earlier have released Silly Kissers' debut 10 inch Precious Necklace. Listen to two of the beauties below, and don't miss the nice and easy video for Ghost in Your Heart.
Also from Montreal hail Cherry Chapstick, a pretty busy and ambitious trio that recently seem to have jumped on the hip synth bandwagon as well after some explorations into rather traditional shoegazey indie rock (though I don't know in which direction they're actually heading now), but with a rather 90s feel to it, which is, no doubt, just as fine. They have a 7 inch out, and a-side The Line is a brilliantly chilled and sleazy late night jam, while the flip side is a "re-imagination" of Silly Kissers' EP title track Precious Necklace, a pretty unapologetic four-to-the-floor call to dance.
Manners is the one-man project of Greg Beson, hailing from Portland, Maine, and apparently if you're located in the remote borderland of New England, you've more than enough time to imagine some of the creatively most exciting experimental folk there is right now - with its hazy guitar and heavily distorted cymbals, Greg's mellow voice, dreamlike, laid-back harmonizing and a gentle variation of tempi, Night Before will stick in your ear canal for days. Love is everywhere, most present right here.
Manners is the one-man project of Greg Beson, hailing from Portland, Maine, and apparently if you're located in the remote borderland of New England, you've more than enough time to imagine some of the creatively most exciting experimental folk there is right now - with its hazy guitar and heavily distorted cymbals, Greg's mellow voice, dreamlike, laid-back harmonizing and a gentle variation of tempi, Night Before will stick in your ear canal for days. Love is everywhere, most present right here.
Our favourite ex-Vivian Girls, ex-Crystal Stilts and ex-Dum Dum Girls drummer Frankie Rose finally has a band that features her own name, together with "the Outs". Well, though we loved her work with all the other wonderful retro outfits and we won't stop loving those bands now, still it sounds very exciting what we've just digested, Little Brown Haired Girl from their self-titled debut LP, out September 21 on our most beloved Slumberland.
Our favourite ex-Vivian Girls, ex-Crystal Stilts and ex-Dum Dum Girls drummer Frankie Rose finally has a band that features her own name, together with "the Outs". Well, though we loved her work with all the other wonderful retro outfits and we won't stop loving those bands now, still it sounds very exciting what we've just digested, Little Brown Haired Girl from their self-titled debut LP, out September 21 on our most beloved Slumberland.
