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Been a fan of Fish Hunt ever since I randomly stumbled upon "Staying Small" when searching bandcamp for King Krule covers.

I loved their debut album with tracks like Bird Song and Mother's Humour being my favourites, and kept track of their later releases, as I felt that Lucy Mondello had some real potential.

So when Fish Hunt dropped a compliation tape to fundraise for a new project, safe to say I was very excited. Cut to the eventual release of this record, and I feel overall ... read more

Dove is a Pigeon is the debut album of New York/Atlanta based band, Whirlybird.

The group consists of one Avery Milner who serves as lyricist, vocalist and plays guitar, as well as Matthew Hare on bass and PJ McFarlane who is (primarily) on lead guitar.

On this LP, Milner and the group work with long-time collaborator, Matt Mattson of Pendulum Studios, who takes charge of production, engineering and mixing. Finally, this record was mastered by Greg Hendler of Meadowlark Audioworks.

I first ... read more

This "finished" demo track was uploaded to Mimi Bay's official Youtube and Soundcloud pages the other day (at the time of writing) and I think it might well be one of my favourite of hers. The soft piano paired with Bay's fantastic voice works wonders. I feel an almost Sufjan Stevens influence on this track - which is not at all a bad thing in my opinion! Finally, I think the glitchy warping synth elements toward the back end of the track give the progression a nice sense of lift from ... read more

I have been really excited for this project, ever since it was first mentioned all the way back in 2019/2020.

Over the last few years, it has been relatively quiet on Caska’s front regarding their musical output; a couple demos here and there but otherwise not so much.

In 2020 there was “WHACK” - a more classically hip-hop styled track complete with chipmunk vocals and a real sense of Spaß (to appropriate a Brechtian term) in both Caska’s vocal delivery and ... read more