What do you get when you take a group of absolute lads, mix in a bunch of spare time thanks to the covid lockdown, and give them a synthesizer to play with? Fun. Who would have thought. Fun, danceable punk.
The six-piece Leeds band Adult DVD are unfiltered, making music by trying over and over until it works, and they've found a genuinely odd way of doing it: only ever writing in pairs. As the band put it: "It'd have been such a painful thing to listen to six people trying to ... read more
An almost folk-tale mystical figure, Terry Callier made some genuinely mesmerizing music, with "What Color Is Love" the clear high point, before walking away from it all. He resurfaced a decade later, but the world had mostly moved on. No wonder I had never heard of this man before last week.
But I cannot overstate how happy I am to have been pointed toward this beauty of an album. "What Color Is Love" feels like a warm summer day on the porch, doing nothing but soaking up ... read more
Maybe Not Tonight, the second album from wonk pop band Lime Garden, is filled with great basslines, some amazing synthesizer work, and a whole lot of bad life choices. As far as indie rock goes, you could do a lot worse. As far as wonk pop goes? Wonk on, baby.
I mentioned wonk pop in the opening, and no, that wasn't a silly word dropped in to distract you from my writing. It's the term Lime Garden have taken for their own music. Does the album sound like a new genre, though? Well, ... read more
Viagr aboys, brought to you by Shrimptech Enterprises, presents a new collection of wonderful, realistic and totally not loose poems about us all being humans made of meat, taking care of your health through a scientifically proven pyramid scheme, and something about dogs and horses.
I remember being an itty bitty tiny teenager when they first came to the Netherlands. Back in 2018 they decided to enlighten us people of the lower countries about worms and research chemicals. Man, did they give ... read more