Listen Before You Buy

With a pop hook and lilting crescendo lurking around every corner, Sparkadia offers a mixed bag of surprises in the guise of gorgeously executed, dreamy power pop.

TweetShare When Jordan (J. Irvin Dally) first introduced himself to me back in July, I fell in love with his music almost instantaneously. As I described his music back then, he embodies the spirit of Jeff Buckley and the passion of Cat Power, his two-tone voice layered like a cake over the delicately plucked guitar [...]

TweetShare A couple of weeks ago I was given the absolute joy of listening to a few songs by J. Irvin Dally. He’d sent me a couple of his tracks and after listening to those I went looking for more.  I found his Bandcamp page and was blown away, his voice unwavering and tinged with the spirit [...]

TweetShare That song title might sound familiar to you and if you’ve been reading this site for the last couple of months or so then you’ve probably even seen it on here. That’s because it’s a cover of the always excellent L.A. band The Delta Mirror. I posted about The Shimmies back at the start [...]

TweetShare It’s pretty sweet when a band you really like starts recommending new music to you.  That’s what Craig from The Delta Mirror did with The Shimmies. Not only did he recommend them but he even sent me a couple of their songs too.  The four-piece are from a land far far away in Dagobah [...]

TweetShare 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 [...]