Christmas Advent #22 – Christmas Teardrops ‘Neath Mistletoe

Today's gift is a Christmas beauty from the wonderful Just Joans.


Christmas - Teardrops 'Neath Mistletoe from The Just Joans

Christmas Advent #17 – Countdown To Christmas

Christmas is only a week away. So here's the epic Glam Chops, featuring Eddie Argos and the boys getting their Glam out for Christmas like Wizard spinning upside down on a barrel of Crumpton Oaks in the corner of the best discotheque ever.

Christmas Advent #16 – The Generation That Nobody Remembered

Bursting from the door today is 10 years of pissing on Zane Lowe’s smirking face and the whole of 6 Music's “indie” back catalogue via The Indelicates.

As our pal Eddie Argos said “…the Indelicates have been my favourite new band in every end of year poll I’ve been asked to complete in the last four years, but that is not enough. They are going to become the answer to every question put to me…”

The Indelicates are back and armed with another cluster of nuggets that kick up shimmering shit-storms in 'Elevator Music'

Christmas Advent #15 – Days In Between

Today’s treat is a storming set from The Stammer. It shoots across Philadelphia like Kerouac and Moriarty picking up the lost souls, broken dreams, faded friendships, aching hearts, small pockets of hope, and the burnouts and the left-behinds. Lines sparkle and shoot from guitars and explode in your mind like tiny fireworks letting you take from it what you need.

Christmas Advent #14 - Abominable Snowman in the Supermarket

The window opens today to reveal some brilliant snowman action from the American Shakin' Stevens Jonathan Richman.

Christmas Advent #11 – London Bound

Today’s journey takes through Liverpool and London via Seattle’s Bleeding Gold Records. People//Talk’s version of Just Handshakes’ ‘London Bound’ burns like a long lost Joy Division nugget where light flickers and seeps though dark basement beats. Just Handshakes’ beautiful original has you simultaneously twisting and turning in melancholy dreams whilst losing your shit as if possessed under the disco ball.

Christmas Advent #10 – The Coming Rain

As Des Death wrote on the toilet door of the discotheque; The Drink are a dreamy, magical mystery tour of a Pop band, whipping up a dancing storm one part Blondie’s Heart of Glass, another The Breeders’ Cannonball, with distant strains of medieval folk. Their second LP ‘Capital’ glows with melodies that ache and twitch into magical Pop songs you don’t want to put down.

Christmas Advent #9 – Little Uneasy

We travel to New Zealand for the next slice of shimmering Pop music. It comes in the form of Fazerdaze’s dream-pop beauty ‘Little Uneasy’, which flickers like memories in the faded photographs of distant summers.

Christmas Advent #8 – Fear of Missing Out

Today’s gift comes from California’s bone-shaking Punk Poppers Great Hart. The shit-kicking ‘Dropping Out’ sounds like Bouncing Souls taps-aff sucking Crumpton Oaks through a beer helmet in Jack the Rat and Lesher’s new student digs, or even better if that’s possible. Send them all your money. Punk rock ist nicht tot!!
 

Christmas Advent #7 – You Don’t Need To Be Them

In June The Sun Days ‘Album’ screeched into my shack like Makthaverskan and Marceline's Scream Queens joyriding The Electric Pop Group’s melodies. ‘Don’t need to be them’ is just one plucked from a mine of jangling Pop nuggets, that still burns now in the cold of winter as it first did in the distant summer.

Christmas Advent #6 – Skewed

Today’s treat comes via Melbourne’s shoegaze dream-Poppers Day Ravies. Their 2015 LP Liminal Zones rolls and spikes with synths, guitar hooks and slow burning melodies that burn like a drug you can’t put down. ‘Skewed’ is just one purler from their full box of shimmering Pop beauties.

Christmas Advent #5 – Sometimes The Doubles Just Don’t Go Your Way

Legends of Countries ‘Talk About Country’ glows beautifully like the tales of The Highwaymen and Townes Van Zandt, with the understated sadness of Withered Hand sprinkled on top. Country guitars and choruses bounce along with nods, winks and joined dots from Country music’s finest to DIY Punk hero Kathleen Hanna and Indiepop legend Amelia Fletcher. Lovely stuff, as Shakin’ Stevens would say.

Christmas Advent #4 – Love is a Drug, and a Kiss is a Hit

Today’s door opens to reveal a treat from San Diego’s wonderful TV Girl. ‘Like We Planned’ is another perfect Pop mosaic cut from the dreamland of electronic samples and outsider Pop with the added gift of Madison Acid taking the scissors for a spin.

Christmas Advent #3 – Dickhead

Christmas Advent number 3 comes via DIY Punk super-group No Ditching. Their 2015 EP Inseparable rages like Marceline and the Scream Queens busking on a Durham street corner. The one minute riot that is ‘Dickhead’ has never been so appropriate.

Christmas Advent #2 – Take Me By The Hand, I Don’t Give A Damn

WESTKUST’s ‘LAST FOREVER’ LP sounds like all your favourite songs being played in a row between Veronica Falls and Makthaverskan in the ultimate Goth party of Dai Disco’s dreams. Spiking guitars and thundering choruses collide in a tidal wave that sweeps you off your feet, leaving you breathless for 33 minutes of storming fuzzed-up pop euphoria. Dai Disco, Lesher, and Dai Goth have all succumbed to its beauty, sacrificing what could have been a bottle of Crumpton Oaks to secure it, here. Even Lesher (who values Crumpton Oaks over almost anything), believes it to be his finest purchase ever for under a fiver, and was heard recently saying “ahhh not even Frosty Jacks on cold winter night comes close to this, lovely stuff.”

Christmas Advent #1 – Hands That We Used To Hold

After a lengthy absence spent feeding cats and touching tips with the best and worst of them, Bruce Foresight's vision has come true. I can no longer resist the opportunity to lay some sweet beats down for you to chew up like Father Christmas chomping on the pie you keep your weed in.

To begin the journey we head back to 2010 in the form of Lucky Delucci’s beautiful December 1986. Magical melodies float around Josef Prygodzicz’s winter storm of love and loss, which seems to come to the front like Frankel in the last furlong during the cold slow days of Christmas.

Josef is now spinning magical landscapes here with his new band Winter Villains.

 

Days you said the darkest things / Days you were the light

more like holding hands and not so much like future plans

1. Just For Fun - Jonathan Richman
2. Just For Fun - Alpaca Sports
3. Silver Tides - Major Leagues
4. Shut - Colour Me Wednesday
5. 90210 - The Courtneys
6. Days Of Being Wild - Trick Mammoth
7. Into Eternity - Jens Lekman
8. Love Goes On! - Sleuth
9. Josie - Go Violets
10. Paper Hearts - The Airplanes
11. Eden - Astro Children
12. Total Block - Slowcoaches
13. Like a Plate - Flowers
14. In Stranger Times - Jeremy Neale ft Go Violets
15. A Brief Moment - danmariska 
16. Dreams - Astrid Madberg
17. Girl I Can't Forget - The Death Of Pop
18. So Far Away - Stephen Duffy and the Lilac Time

Silver Tides

If FRRH #4 ever makes it out of my medieval printer it’s sure to be holding hands with a mixtape wearing this gem around its neck.

MAJOR LEAGUES | ‘SILVER TIDES’

‘Weird Season’ EP out December 6!

Old Friends Are Older Now

Cold Winds Are Colder Now

1. We Are Nothing Alike - The Indelicates
2. Easier To Cry - TV Girl
3. Mosaic - Fear Of Men
4. Endless Drain - Major Leagues
5. Oyster Boy You're A Blast - Tyrannosaurus Dead
6. Nasty Habits - The Wild Ones
7. As Long As I Have You - Alpaca Sports
8. Surfing Cats - The Notes
9. Don't Hang Around - The Death Of Pop
10. Nick's Song - Songs For Walter
11. Heat Wave - The All About
12. Wish You Were Beer - The Great American Novel
13. BRAINS - Mega Emotion
14. Motherquake - DJ Freh & Diplo
15. Purge Your Inner Tory - Colour Me Wednesday
16. We Are All The Lo-Fi Kids - Helen Love
17. (Here's to) The Ghosts Of The Past - Dot Dash
18. This Town (Song For Karen) - The Thlyds

You Can't Hide Your Love Forever

so kiss me before we run out of days

1. This Song Will Make You Love Me - The Great American Novel
2. Debbie Loves Joey - Eddie Argos
3. Boy - Chalk and Numbers
4. What a Day - The Death of Pop
5. German Ghost Cat - Baby Ghosts
6. The Art of Kissing - Ballboy
7. Family Hold Back - Songs For Walter
8. London Bound - Just Handshakes
9. Twisting to an Auld Tune - The Bobby McGee's
10. Kate Cleaver's House - Hefner
11. Who Would Want to Be Loved? - Kid Canaveral
12. You Can Hide Your Love Forever - Comet Gain
13. Angel Interceptor - Ash
14. Round and Round The Sun - Flipron
15. East Coast - A Little Orchestra ft Gordon McIntyre
16. Henrietta Maria - Darren Hayman and The Long Parliament
17. Julie (remix) - Jens Lekman
18. Hearts Are Trump - TRIO
19. True Love Will Find You In The End - Crybaby