Oct 25, 2016 | Featured Track, Features & Articles, Licensing News, perth
With an acutely transcendent and atmospheric vibe, perth’s ‘Drank and Kites and Tomorrow’ is a lucid and expansive slice of wave-gaze pop. Pulsing, agitated rhythms offset the cosmic streaming of synths, voice and guitars, eventually morphing into a kind of...
Sep 29, 2016 | Arc Lab News, Featured Track, Features & Articles, Licensing News
As soon as its tense, antagonistic beat kicks in, Arc Lab’s ‘Through the Burning Glass’ begins to stretch out before the listener like a vivid, grey horizon. Its diffuse but expressively cadenced rhythms and melodic lines ascend and circulate the song’s...
Jun 20, 2016 | Erik Nilsson, Featured Track, Features & Articles, Licensing News
On ‘Ex Nihilo’, the quicksilver opener to his superb 2015 album Hearing Things, Erik Nilsson’s impressionistic deployment of the guitar is very much in the tradition of Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis: minimal notes, maximum impact. The track...
Aug 20, 2015 | Featured Track, Features & Articles, Licensing News, The Star Department News
At the heart of The Star Department’s superb debut album The Pea Green Boat lies ‘Stitches and Sleeves’. The track is bound together by a heartbreaking guitar line, a silvery waltz-time figure that sends shivers up the spine. Combined with shuffling...
Jun 12, 2015 | Featured Track, Features & Articles, Hotels News, Licensing News
‘The Heart That Hears Like A Bat’ is a song as wonderful as its title, a gorgeously shadowy piece of film noir Bond pop. Tremolo guitars and vibraphone shimmer over the inimitable Hotels rhythm section like moonlight on a swimming pool, while Blake Madden...
Apr 27, 2015 | Featured Track, Features & Articles, Licensing News, News Updates, Todd Tobias News
Choosing a single track from any of Todd Tobias’s shadowy instrumental albums offers a tantalising glimpse into his intoxicating universe of sound. In the case of ‘Night of the Clubfoot’, the opening track of Medicine Show, a distorted electric...
