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Yet another artist which invites comparison with Phil Spector and the “wall of sound” production technique. (And yet another great track from The Fader – they keep on coming up with the goods.) Eerie vocals wind through the fuzzy guitar melodies, recalling The Raveonettes but without the ironic rock’n’roll pastiching. Brooklyn’s Night Manager currently only [...]

There’s a slow rhythmic vocal refrain to the vocals on Spectrals’s song “Don’t Mind”, which combined with the chimes and strings produces a Scott Walker/Phil Spector effect. It’s ethereal and feels like it’s being beamed from the past directly to your computer, maybe picking up a little shoegaze influence along the way. Louis Jones, the [...]

If you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too.  Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted by [...]

There’s a lot to like about The Like.  First off their crafty 60′s pop-soul sound is infectious.  Secondly they look pretty cool.  Thirdly they’re easy on the eyes. Fourthly (is that a word?) they have Bill Murray as their tambourine player (keep reading).  Ok, that’s only four but isn’t that enough? Set to release their [...]

By the time you’ve finished listening to the Dead Models’ three 60s surf-inspired pop gems you’re going to wish three things. That they had more than just three songs That it was summer every day That they’d be the soundtrack to your life At least that’s how it was for me, and I’m just like [...]