A place to lose your mind.
Cool LoFi recordings that send you back to days of 1960's pop. There's a lot of charm, beautiful melodic harmonies, haunting hollowness, and great hooks, in this album.
damaged pop. shimmering stars is a dream pop group from vancouver, bc. "Filtering the dark undertones of the ‘50s & ‘60s through a modern lens to create a haunting, poignant tone that sounds equal parts familiar and fresh."
Full live performance:
Updated: Nov 26, 2021
You may have noticed that I am a huge fan of the Fuzz Club Records label and here is a band that is a unique blend of No Wave, Electro, Dark Wave, and Post Punk. I have been digging their earlier releases, so check those out!
Here is a great read from Louder Than War and you may enjoy.
This video isn't included in the full live session:
The complete Le Cargo live sessions:
Veik's Bandcamp link:
On April 30th, the French three-piece Veik will release their debut album, ‘Surrounding Structures’. Centred around vintage analogue synths and abrasive instrumentation, the band’s experimental post-punk is rooted in the 70s avant-garde, most notably Krautrock and No Wave. They reel off groups like Implog, Suicide or Indoor Life as inspirations, whilst existing in a similar world to contemporaries like Beak>, Suuns and Girl Band. Due for release on London-based label Fuzz Club Records, ‘Surrounding Structures’ arrives off the back of a handful of EPs and singles, tours around Europe and shows with the likes of The Soft Moon, Tomaga and Vanishing Twin.
Talking about ‘Surrounding Structures’, they say that “The writing of the album was heavily influenced by architectural environments. We made a lot of detours when touring in 2017 and 2018 to visit modernist and brutalist buildings in France, Germany and Belgium (which caused us many delays for soundchecks.)” Listening to the album, it’s quickly clear how the disjointed shapes and abrasive textures of brutalist architecture are manifested in their music. However, they claim that the ‘Surrounding Structures’ of the album’s title are also a reference to both the “physical and social structures that surround us, and how they shape us as individuals and collectives.”
Updated: Nov 24, 2021
Excellent mix of psyche, shoegaze, and instrumentals. This record is easy to get lost in.
Notes from Helicon's bandcamp site:
Glaswegian psychedelic heavyweights Helicon are soon set to release their second album, the aptly- titled ‘This Can Only Lead to Chaos.’ Arriving January 24th via Fuzz Club, it follows on from their 2017 self-titled debut and a recent three-track ‘Zero Fucks’ EP, released earlier this year. A 9-track effort, it sees the band delve even deeper into their self-confessed “evil psych rock with smatterings of sentient sitar” - coming out of the other end with something more raw and heavy, and far closer to the all-consuming live show that they’ve spent the last decade frying minds with.
Made at Glasgow’s Anchor Lane Studio with Luigi Pasquini (The Cosmic Dead, Trembling Bells, Acid Cannibals) – is inspired by “the rejection of mediocrity and mundanity. A shared spirit of rebellion that things can be better and the fucking balls to make it happen.” So, how do Helicon go about sticking a finger to the mediocre? Through a shape-shifting blast of transcendental sitar, oscillating synths, motorik basslines, echo-soaked vocals and huge walls of guitar thick with phaser and fuzz, cranked all the way up to 11. On their new album, Helicon have emerged with a record that sees them at their most forthright and ambitious and–delivered with the kind of wit only five disgruntled Glasweigians could muster–it couldn’t have arrived at a better time.
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