We’ve gone rogue today with a double A-side advent calendar treat. Mark Oliver Everett of EELS has written two of our favourite modern Christmas tunes. Christmas from the point of view of our canine companions gets explored in’Christmas is Going…
A ray of winter sunshine pierces the grimy clouds today as we joyously announce a new Francois & the Atlas Mountains tour for 2014. Creators of sunshine-infused pop that’s both intelligent and out-and-out catchy, the Paris-based quartet have had our…
London-based Emperor Yes are Ash Gardner, Hugo Sheppard and Adam Betts. Their music revolves around themes of science fiction and psychedelic pop. We asked them to record the closing track for our record, and the result was the Time Frog…
Sumie’s eponymous new album shows off an array of haunting melodies, her voice floating on top of intricate trance-inducing broken guitar chords. An exercise in the stripped down, most of the tracks feature only her vocals and guitar, with occasional…
You might expect When We Lived in the Crook of a Tree to be a collection of winsome, woolly songs about treehouses. Nope. The first words are: “There once grew a tree, ten flimsy branches on it, that used to…
There is no occasion, no moment, no second of the day that cannot be improved by Peanuts. Christmas is no different, and we would suggest that the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas should be a staple…