Reviews

Maintaining their seven year-long search for the perfect melody through a series of EPs, this is Groundswell’s debut long playing effort which takes them as close to the goal as possible … several times. Appropriately […]

The sound of the debut release by this Melbourne band is best summed up in the opening line of their press release, describing it as “harmony and melody, acid-inspired pop and summer-of-love California beach’n’desert sounds”. […]

Remaining in the soundscape of “their new day”, featuring a mod-band- turned-psych freakbeat, The Embrooks are back on the scene, exploring the “back of their mind” and takin’ us back in time. Even more than […]

For an average listener, The Remains are just one of the bands that accompanied The Beatles on their last US tour in 1966, but for those “in the know”… they’re sooooo much more, one of […]

This band has already established them as “outrageously” vintage sounding, but with this album, a new standard is being maintained, and it could be described as “the ultimate retro-futuristic sound”. Generally, what you get is […]

According to the profile of The Maydays’ members, it’s an obvious “what you see is what you get” situation. Besides the band’s front man Pat Johnson, there’s an almost all-star line up, including one of […]

As for the a-side of the single, besides the best song title and one of the catchiest tunes he’s came up with, this is not too far from Danny’s P76 output, which comes as pretty […]

Another great effort by the Detour label, on their mission of preserving the ’70/’80s mod revival scene. Just like it was the case with most of the participating bands, The Name’s sound was also inspired […]