Electronica, Indie Rock, New Music, Psych, Video

NEW MUSIC: Mercvrial – Pink Frost

‘Pink Frost’ stands as one our favourite singles, certainly a contender for our favourite New Zealand song of all time. With that in mind we approached this cover by Mexican quartet Mercvrial with caution but they definitely pull it off. They retain that haunting, swirling melancholic mood, inject some electronic elements (sounding like mid-period Depeche Mode) but without sacrificing the sad heart of the song. The … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Mercvrial – Pink Frost

Doubtful SoundsSeptember 13, 2019September 25, 2019Leave a comment

Album Covers, Audio Stream, Indie Rock, New Music, Psych, Stream

NEW MUSIC: Ex Okays – OGIES

There’s a sweet rambling tinge of Blur in the sound of this track from Ex Okays. It’s mainly in the vocal before the song gets all warbly and comforting like a woozy walk home from a late night bar on a warm summer night. The band have an EP out now called Good/Old Days. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Ex Okays – OGIES

Doubtful SoundsSeptember 10, 2019September 25, 2019Leave a comment

Indie Rock, Live Photos, Live Reviews, News, Psych, shoegaze

LIVE REVIEW: Ride @ Enmore Theatre, Sydney 2019

Ride @ Enmore Theatre, Sydney NSW Sept 6th 2019 It’s been a long time between drinks for Australian fans of English band Ride but the timing felt just right with the band re-established for a couple of years now and with two solid new albums under its belt. It’s most likely that the members of openers Shiva & The Hazards were probably not even born … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Ride @ Enmore Theatre, Sydney 2019

Doubtful SoundsSeptember 7, 2019September 25, 2019Leave a comment

Indie Pop, New Music, Pop, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Psych, Stream

NEW MUSIC: One Sentence. Supervisor – Acedia

For fans of Fujiya & Miyagi, Neu!, Hot Chip Here’s a crazy, wild yet totally controlled Krautpop sound from Swiss band One Sentence. Supervisor. ‘Acedia’ is a metronomic delight, galloping along and fizzing with handclaps, a vocal sound reminiscent of The Charlatans, guitar that explodes and surges skyward and the unique blend of virtuoso oud player Bahur Ghazi. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: One Sentence. Supervisor – Acedia

Doubtful SoundsSeptember 6, 2019September 6, 2019Leave a comment

Electronica, Experimental, New Music, Post-Punk, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Psych

MEW MUSIC: Intenso – Meek

Short-circuiting digital post rock and scattered fragments of jazz inhabit this track from Intenso, a trio from Perth, Western Australia. ‘Meek’ starts glitchy – insistent yet tentative – before swelling and morphing into a heaving polymorphic mass of synthetic scree and noise manipulation. Fascinating, disturbing and hypnotic sounds that will pummel you into sonic oblivion over seven intense(o) minutes. Continue reading MEW MUSIC: Intenso – Meek

Doubtful SoundsSeptember 2, 2019September 2, 2019Leave a comment

Garage Rock, Indie Rock, New Music, Post-Punk, Psych, Stream

NEW MUSIC: Holy Void – I Will Never Be Again

Rising out of the sonic mist come Holy Void (Canada) with this heavyweight piece of psych rock that lumbers and sways along. It’s heavy without being HEAVY, has melodies that drip from it like sickly sweet toffee and possesses enough rust and peeling paint to make it sound like it was beamed in from another time. Great stuff and an intoxicating introduction that will drag … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Holy Void – I Will Never Be Again

Doubtful SoundsAugust 20, 2019August 20, 2019Leave a comment

Indie Pop, Indie Rock, New Music, Psych, Stream

NEW MUSIC: Shiva & The Hazards – Angkor Wat

Recommended if you like The Verve, The Charlatans and Deep Sea Arcade. Melbourne/London four piece Shiva & The Hazards will be supporting RIDE on their East Coast Australian tour next month and on the sound of this single they’ll be a great sound to complement the headliners. They’ve got an assured UK indie rock sound – doused in the kind of dreamy psychedelia that bands … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Shiva & The Hazards – Angkor Wat

Doubtful SoundsAugust 19, 2019August 19, 2019Leave a comment

Guitar Rock, Indie Rock, New Music, Post-Punk, Psych, shoegaze, Video

NEW MUSIC: Domiciles – Sinking Sun

Domiciles (Fife, Scotland) have released this new seven minute slab of hypnotic psych rock. ‘Sinking Sun’ is the second single taken from debut album This Is Not a Zen Garden, set for release this Friday (16/08/19) via Last Night From Glasgow. The vocals are subdued, buried in the shadowy corners of the song as the rhythm section does the heavy lifting, laying the foundation for guitars that … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Domiciles – Sinking Sun

Doubtful SoundsAugust 14, 2019Leave a comment

Indie Pop, Indie Rock, New Music, Psych, shoegaze, Video

NEW MUSIC: TOVE – Gin & Lemonade

This track from TOVE caught our ear recently with it’s sweet, warm and mellifluous feel. There’s a breakbeat anchoring it, some lush shoegaze guitar, atmospheric sliding guitar moans and across it all is the beautiful voice of Sweden’s Tove Tejlar with her hypnotic, circling melodies. Lovely stuff. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: TOVE – Gin & Lemonade

Doubtful SoundsAugust 13, 2019August 13, 2019Leave a comment

Indie Rock, New Music, Psych, Video

NEW MUSIC: Dope Lemon – Give Me Honey

This is a curious and intriguing new track from Australian sonic trip merchant Dope Lemon (Angus Stone). ‘Give Me Honey’ is a psychedelic country song, a musical mirage of a psilocybin-drenched lock-in at a sleazy saloon. It sounds like Beck and Jason Pierce from Spiritualized facing their demons in a smoked-out house of mirrors, to a soundtrack by DeMarco and Vile. ‘Give Me Honey’ comes from … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Dope Lemon – Give Me Honey

Doubtful SoundsAugust 6, 2019August 6, 2019Leave a comment

Album Covers, Indie Rock, New Music, Psych, shoegaze, Stream

NEW MUSIC: Charcoal Burners – Winged Bird

Taken from their album The Best Day You Could Imagine, released earlier in 2019, here’s Charcoal Burners‘ excellent song ‘Winged Bird’. The Dunedin, New Zealand band (the vehicle for songwriter Andrew Spittle) blend some fine dense and distorted guitars into lacerated and weary indie rock music that recalls Sebadoh, Husker Du and Swervedriver and JPS Experience. The brilliance of the song lies in its cascading … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Charcoal Burners – Winged Bird

Doubtful SoundsAugust 5, 2019Leave a comment

Folk, Indie Pop, New Music, Pop, Psych, Stream

NEW MUSIC: Slark Moan – Honesty

Almost a Beach Boys sound at the start of this new track from Slark Moan. From there it opens up into cascading piano notes before settling on a rubbery bass groove and classic baroque and power pop shapes. Vocal harmonies soar skyward while Ringo-style drums keep the song in check, while also adding some nice rhythmic colour behind the vocal, inhabited by the wandering ghost … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Slark Moan – Honesty

Doubtful SoundsJuly 21, 2019July 30, 2019Leave a comment