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First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ This coverage was created via Musosoup  #Sustainablecurator Click here  and run your own campaign on MusoSoup Picture Credit: mercvrial mercvrial - brief algorithms Release Date: April 29, 2022 Label: Crafting Room Recordings Format: Vinyl/Digital Duration: 36:51 Genre: Post Punk / Neo-Psychedelia / Dream Pop Origin: Rosarito , Mexico mercvrial from the Rosarito at Northern West Coast of Mexico have released their first EP " the stars, like dust " in late 2019. A year later, the definitely not fake news single ' Donald Trump Love ' marked the transition between the the EP and the promo phase for the album on hand. The three ex ante single ' dark stars ' (April 2021), ' be that someone ' (March 2022), and ' look inside ' (April 2022, two weeks before album release) rais...

  First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ This coverage was created via Musosoup  #Sustainablecurator Click here  and run your own campaign on MusoSoup Picture Credit: Clifford Clifford - Close to me Release Date: March 25, 2022 Duration: 03:05 Genre: Synth Pop / House / Dream Pop Origin: Westminster , MD , USA Young artist Clifford Reeves  from Westminster, Maryland is a chameleon, a self-expressing performer who is constantly turning the Indie scene upside down with his songs. One of his latest releases, the single 'Close to me' is a tasty tidbit to sweeten up bitter episodes with. Thus, Clifford is the artist adding the extra ingredient that makes life worth living with this song. Think of the first sweet dish after eating the bitter herbs on passover, think of a painter adding joyful little dots and sparkles to a dark and...

  First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ This coverage was created via Musosoup  #Sustainablecurator Click here  and run your own campaign on MusoSoup Picture Credit: Coffee House Anarchists Coffee House Anarchists - Separated by the Sea Pt. 2 Release Date: March 18, 2022 Label: 321recording... Format: Digital Duration: 12:42 Genre: Indie Folk / Shoegaze Origin: Montpellier , France The title of the EP on hand reveals that this is the second part of the "Separated by the Sea" series written and recorded by Montpellier-based trio Coffee House Anarchists. The four-track release follows its predecessor which was out in December 2021. If you have not yet, you should give the first part a spin. Reasons for that are the deeply atmospheric and emotional soundscapes contained on "Separated by the Sea Pt. 1", the fact that the two EPs to...

Picture Credit: Sisyphes   Sisyphes - Des stops et des détours Release Date: September 24, 2021 Length: 03:21 Genre: Indie Folk / Dream Pop Origin: Margate , England Geoffrey Papin  is a musician based in Kentish town Margate, also home to Broken Folk duo Lunatraktors . Papin , who used to create music with LaHoule , has recently formed his new solo band Sisyphes, and will very soon release an EP and an album. The single 'Des stops et des détours' is a beautiful composition of melancholy, desire, and hope. As the title tells us, it is about un unsteady but ongoing path defined by stops and detours - such as life is. A folky melody greets the listeners on top of a shoegaze-like Synthwave carpet. With his soothing vocals and the harmonic interaction of the instruments, Sisyphes creates a soundscape that resembles the first lights of dawn. It is a very comfortable and appeasing atmosphere that is spread here and which finds its climax in the colourful vocal bridge. Hence, ...

Picture Credit: AI AI - Vincent Dylan Release Date: September 21, 2021 Length: 03:48 Genre:  Synthwave  /  Indie Rock Origin:  Austin ,  TX ,  USA Arent't human emotions something weird and fascinating at the same time? Polar opposites can be so close to each other, only thin lines divide them. And often, several emotions can appear simultaneously and create a colourful and savage tohuwabohu that affects feelings and moods. These phenomena are dealt with in AI's single 'Vincent Dylan'. The Texan duo hereby pays tribute to the beautiful chaos that human emotions can be. This thrilling Indie and Synth Rock anthem is defined by asynchronous movements of rhythm section and riffs. Dream Pop, Indie Rock, and Wave create a powerful vortex that musicks the clash of several emotions. This allows the listeners to read positive and negative emotive states from the soundscape, or to focus their hearing on one of them. Music from every post will stay in the  MangoR...

Picture Credit: Maaike van Liempt   Keeley - Brave Warrior Release Date: June 18, 2021 Label: Dimple Discs Format: Digital Length: 11:47 Genre: Dream Pop / Psychedelic Pop Origin: Dublin , Ireland Dublin's Keeley Moss  is the author of The Keeley Chronicles , an influential blog that is dedicated to the story of Munich's backpacker Inga-Maria Hauser  who got murdered in Northern Ireland in 1988 where she was travelling. True Crime fans will be deeply satisfied by the elaborate processing and workup done by Keeley Moss . This summer, the Irish artist has also released a four-song EP dedicated to the same subject. Together with Alan Maguire  (keyboards and programming), Keeley Moss  has created a sonic tribute to Inga-Marie Hauser , the "Brave Warrior". The EP begins with the dynamic Indie Rock and Post Punk song 'The Glitter and the Glue' (see video above) and thereby introduces the listeners to the story of "Brave Warrior" Inga-Maria . From there on...

     Psy’Aviah – Sunbird (feat. Oliviya Nicole)   Release Date: October 1, 2021 Label: Alfa Matrix Format: EP Length: 43:20 Genre: dark electro, dark pop, synthpop, indie pop, dream pop Yves Schelpe, the mastermind behind Psy’Aviah, is by no means a newbie to the electronic music scene. The Belgian-based act was established in 2003 and since then has been producing diverse, high-quality releases. The latest one is dedicated to the new song, “Sunbird’, and is packed with a dozen remixes of all shapes and forms.   Psy’Aviah is signed to Alfa Matrix, an underground electronic label, and seems to always stay a bit below the mainstream radars, but definitely can’t be called obscure - Yves worked with a few famous artists, like Kyoko Baertsoen of Hooverphonic, Jennifer Parkin of AYRIA and Jean-Luc De Meyer of Front 242.   And this kind of explains exactly what you are about to hear - a full 45 minutes of sterile 90’s nostalgia worship, wrapped in every style imag...

Picture Credit: Matt King   Absolutely Free - Aftertouch Release Date: September 24, 2021 Label: Boiled Records Format: Vinyl / Digital Length: 40:46 Genre: Shoegaze / Krautrock Origin: Toronto , Ontario , Canada Absolutely Free's latest album "Aftertouch" is a beautiful example for the vast versatility of the Krautrock genre. Although the soundscapes of "Aftertouch" somewhat resemble passages from Holy Monitor's "Southern Lights" , looking for parallels to bands such as Zement or Oslo Tapes , one will hardly make finds. Instead, it is easier spotting similarities to the sound of Etxe Records acts like Blackout Transmission or Silo Halo . The major reason are probably the dreamy synthetic sounds that define a huge part of the music on "Aftertouch" as well as the both, artistic and poppy approach provided by the band. Coming up to their band name, Absolutely Free convey the feeling of being airborne. And while that impression may remin...

Picture Credit: Moontwin   Moontwin - Around and around Release Date: August 27, 2021 Length: 03:41 Genre: Indie Rock / Dream Pop Origin: Cornwall , England / Plovdiv , Bulgaria Somewhere between Cornwall in Southwest England and Thrakian city Plovdiv (Пловдив) in South Central Bulgaria, Moontwin arouse from the virtual space. Members Mel  and Zac  are divided by ~1,700 miles (~2,750 kilometres), but they are also united by a love for passionate and soulful music. The story behind Moontwin's latest single 'Around and around' is both fantastic and beautiful. Zac  awoke from a dream of which the song was the soundtrack. Quick-witted and still half asleep, he sang the chorus and recorded it on his phone before falling asleep again. Finally fully conscious, he later created this song together with Mel . The dreamy and psychedelic soundscape supports the soft lyrics in which Moontwin take on life and its habit of changing. 'Around and around' is hence about accepting t...

Picture Credit: AI   AI - Prosper Park Release Date: August 08, 2020 Length: 03:22 Genre: Synthwave / Post Punk Origin: Austin , TX , USA Recently, two of the latest releases by Austin's Synthwave duo AI were presented and reviewed. Find all posts on AI here . Today, we are taking a look back into last summer - the first (Nothern hemisphere) summer of the coronacene. In August 2020, Liz Feezor  and Bobby Cheatham  released their most successful single so far, the summer anthem 'Prosper Park'. Contrary to what one might assume, this summer song that was out during the times of lockdowns, dirty election campaigns, and a period of time defined by uncertainty, 'Prosper Park' is as hot and colourful as a sunny sky reflecting on the waves of a gorgeous swimming pool. AI have created a synth-driven Post Punk hymn moved forward by a Fischer-Z-like Post Punk guitar riff and dreamy Indie and Synthwave. AI's 'Prosper Park' is the soundtrack of youth, long summer d...

Picture Credit: Andrew Caffrey   Colorfuzz - Digital Delays Release Date: July 12, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 44:48 Genre: Psychedelic Pop / Shoegaze Origin: Green Brook , NJ , USA Kyle Merritts from Somerset County, NJ, has been a bass player for several bands, and also once won a "Battle of the Bands" competition with one of his combos. Coming of age, the musician from Green Brook Township grew tired of playing cover versions, and thus he wanted to produce his own music for quite some time. Peu à peu, Merritts  collected instruments and recording equipment until he felt ready to start with the recording to his first solo album. The outcome is the ten-track release "Digital Delays" which is a 100% independent production. That means, Colorfuzz' debut album was written, recorded, mixed and mastered in the artist's room. And there is a lot of energy that has been created within these four walls. "Digital Delays" is predominantly...

Picture Credit: Presley Duyck   Presley Duyck - Happy 22! Release Date: July 23, 2021 Length: 03:43 Genre: Indie Rock Origin: Dallas , TX , USA Presley Duyck's 'Happy 22!' is one of the many stories that were written during the time of the pandemic. The Dallas-based artist found herself in quarantine when she realized it was her ex-boyfriend's 22nd birthday. What to do with this situation? Text him? Call him? Talk to somebody else? There are many ways how to react to this flood of weird emotions. Presley Duyck chose to write a song about it. Here is 'Happy 22!': The song starts with a dreamy atmosphere which then slides into some energetic Indie Rock movements. Presley Duyck combines soulful harmonies with dynamic tempo and a melancholic air. 'Happy 22!' is a self-reflected and self-empowering Indie Rock hymn that has the potential to support everyone who finds themselves in similar situations. Apart from that, it is dynamic hit for the dancefloor of eve...