Reviews

Islington, England… the place of another Alan McGee discovery under the roofs his new pop colony. With a name that simply prejudices an archetypal place in the pop universe, Captain Soul has all that’s needed […]

Throughout the nineties Alan Clapp has been exploring the wonders of a pop song, with his Orchestra and later with The Orange Peels, and this EP is just a snippet of his solo release, Available […]

Even though Michael himself says that it’s too early for a compilation, I say it’s never too early for any of his albums, especially when you consider the fact that it’s actually his debut in […]

Here’s a British band whose recorded output almost remained in the vaults, and if you’re an addict of what they call “the thinking men’s pop”, in that case you would never forgive the ones who […]

When it came to the choice of the first release by the Australian part of the American ZIP label, there wasn’t much of a dilemma because The Chevelles earned their place on the Aussie power-pop […]

Having an author like Brian Kassan, this band have no worries about such syndromes like “the second album”, “lack of diversity” or anything else concerning their repertoire. After their self titled debut, full of sophisticated […]

You just can’t ignore a band who call themselves after Astrid Kirchherr, can you?!… and when you realise that there are also some musical Mersey-mutations involved too, you’ll know that you’re into something good. These […]

I’m not sure if this was Rick Gallego’s idea, but if you’d like to describe his music in one simple line, “orange and green and yellow and near” is as perfect as can be. The […]