Flashlight

Bonobo

Simon Green is an excellent musician who creates bright-sounding sonorous landscapes for the listener to travel through. In recent years he has become an essential reference on the electronic music scene and his latest record, “Flashlight”, mixes Epan house and hip hop. The bass melodies hook up with the synthesizer rhythms and the results are exceptional.

Panda Bear meets the Grim Reaper

Panda Bear

Noah Lennox from the Animal Collective shows just how strong he is as a solo artist with every solo release he has. His solo career so far is one of colourful bubbly music that showcases his special
voice. Our favourites on this one so far are the noisy “Mr Noah” and “Boys Latin”, the songs that really display Lennox’s musical skill.

Classics

She & Him

Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward’s new album is very much in the vein of “A very She & Him Christmas”and is compiled of some very elegant versions of 60s’ classics. They bring ‘crooner’ to jazz on the likes of “Stay Awhile” or “Time after Time” and have come up with some knockout covers here. Another record that demonstrates why M. Ward is the main man at the moment.

Live at Flamingo Hotel

Dr Dog

This is the first live offering by this Philadelphia band set up in 1999. They have compiled their last seven albums by choosing the nineteen that make up this one. These nineteen also includes a cover of a song by Architecture in Helsinki. An excellent mix of rock, pop eta Americana aimed at fans and unknowns alike. This band’s live energy will amaze quite a few.

The Third

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis

The trio Kitty, Daisy & Lewis are back after four years of silence and they seem to have musically matured in these intervening years. They leave behind the sparkly rockabilly of their first LP and have headed into pop territory on this, their third LP. The song “No action” is a clear example of this change. They way the use some pretty charming sounding classic instruments helps them overcome the copy-paste tendency on so many recent pop
releases.

Caravan

Manett

Bilbao band Manett released their second studio album at the tail-end of 2014. The songs go from “Following” or “Harmless”, painful songs hard to shake off, to the beautifully melodic and happy “Line”. An excellent singer-songwriter pop and folk record that shows its class on the song “Oldham”.