DANIEL T. ANNOUNCES HELIOTROPE & DROPS HEAT-WAVE
Los Angeles based DJ/Producer Daniel Terndrup aka Daniel T., has announced the release of his debut album Heliotrope. The sun kissed first single is ‘Heat-Wave’ a shimmering piece of disco/house named after his radio show and weekly party night at Gold Diggers. The fastidious record collector and prolific remixer formerly constituted one half of Cosmic Kids alongside […]
RECORD REVIEW: HALF WAIF (USA) – LAVENDER
Last week Half Waif, the synth pop project that coalesces around the considerable talents of Brooklyn artist Nandi Rose Plunkett, released the introspective yet immediately touching long player Lavender. It contains a dozen deeply self-explorative and richly substantive vignettes on transience, isolation, need and realisation that are heightened emotionally by Plunkett’s instantly affecting vocals, thoughtful in […]
MARIA USBECK UNVEILS WORK OF MUSICAL DUALITY
Brooklyn based artist Maria Usbeck has been busily working away creating new material for a new album to follow up Amparo, her excellent debut from 2016. Her first cut to surface since then however, ‘Bosque De Bambú’, a splendid piece of synth fused pop characterised by a musical and cultural duality, will not appear on it. […]
YUMI ZOUMA SHARE HOMELY VIDEO FOR LEAD SINGLE ‘DECEMBER’
Watch the new Julian Vapes shot video for Christchurch quartet Yumi Zouma’s first single, ‘December’ released back in early August from their latest Indie30 AOTW listed album Willowbank. It was shot at 36 hand picked locations in and around their home city. Purchase the album here and catch them live doing three dates in Japan and […]
YUMI ZOUMA’S ‘HALF HOUR’ VIDEO
The music has been coming thick and fast from Yumi Zouma since the announcement of their new album Willowbank. Thus far they’ve shared three tracks from it, ‘December‘, ‘Depths Pt. 1‘ and ‘Persephone‘ and today comes the ruminative fourth, ‘Half Hour’ a tale focusing on loneliness and mortality. Josh Burgess describes it thus; “The first […]
YUMI ZOUMA SHARE PERSEPHONE
Yumi Zouma have shared the third single from their forthcoming album Willowbank. The starry eyed and perfectly paced ‘Persephone’ is below. Pre-order the album here. It’s out October 6 on Cascine. Persephone Yumi Zouma (NZL) From the forthcoming album, ‘Willowbank’, Cascine. Out Oct. 6. Yumi Zouma Facebook Audio Stream
YUMI ZOUMA RELEASE DEPTHS PT. 1
The pop gold keeps coming from New Zealand’s Yumi Zouma. The sweet as second single ‘Depths (Pt 1)’ from their forthcoming album Willowbank is below. It follows our current Number 2 listed track ‘December’. Willowbank is out on Cascine October 6. Order here. Depths (Pt. 1) Yumi Zouma (NZL) From the forthcoming album, ‘Willowbank’, […]
YUMI ZOUMA ANNOUNCE WILLOWBANK, FIRST SINGLE HERE
New Zealand pop quartet Yumi Zouma have just announced their new album Willowbank. It comes hot on the heels of debut long player Yoncalla released only in May last year. The first single is the cohesive yet breezy ‘December’ sporting a killer vocal hook, gorgeous harmonies and those ever subtle melodies. The album itself, unlike […]
HALF WAIF TO RELEASE TRANSPORTIVE NEW EP
There is little doubt that the work of Half Waif, the project of Nandi Rose Plunkett, with its restless sound and yearning approach lyrically reflects the diverse background of its protagonist. Her latest EP, form/a, continues that trajectory with its combination of the traditional in its aural context and the modern in its electronic delivery. […]
ROLAND TINGS PRESENTS EYES CLOSED
Melbourne producer Roland Tings has signed to one of our favourite independent music labels Cascine and released a brand new single to boot, the buoyant house number, ‘Eyes Closed’, a track he calls ‘cold euphoria’. It’s his first single since releasing his self titled LP in 2015. In his own words; “I wanted to make […]