LIVE REVIEW: Sonny & The Sunsets, Surf City, Community Radio, Adults @ Goodgod (21/11/13)

Four shades of indie guitar pop music were on display at Goodgod with Adults being at the more obtuse end of the spectrum. The trio knocked out ramshackle, skeletal post punk songs built around restless melodies and rhythmic edge. Their songs gave the impression of being thrown together casually yet beneath the Pavement-esque delivery there lurked some interesting and restless musicality. Once the ears and … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Sonny & The Sunsets, Surf City, Community Radio, Adults @ Goodgod (21/11/13)

Doubtful SoundsDecember 5, 2013January 13, 2014Leave a comment

Guitar Rock, Live Reviews, Psych

LIVE REVIEW: The Murlocs, Los Tones, Blind Valley @ Goodgod Small Club (15/11/13)

Three separate strains of psychedelic rock were on display at Goodgod with locals Blind Valley kicking things off in confident fashion. A quartet with a sound built around big Tame Impala-styled riffs, impressively melodic bass playing, Led Zeppelin atmospherics and a farfisa organ made them a varied and entertaining opening act. The arriving crowd responded in fashion, quickly filling that too often empty void in … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: The Murlocs, Los Tones, Blind Valley @ Goodgod Small Club (15/11/13)

Doubtful SoundsNovember 27, 2013January 13, 2014Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Experimental, Guitar Rock, Indie Rock, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: Anna Calvi | One Breath

Anna Calvi’s debut album in 2011 marked her as a bold and confident songwriter that was matched by her exceptional voice and guitar playing. Two years later we have One Breath, a record that finds her retaining the dramatic and virtuosic elements of her music but also expanding its sonic scope by experimenting with new sounds and song structures. Eliza is an early standout with … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Anna Calvi | One Breath

Doubtful SoundsNovember 26, 2013January 13, 2014Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Guitar Rock, Psych, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: The Grand Rapids | Great Shakes

The Grand Rapids’ debut album possesses a striking sense of purpose and confidence. This isn’t the skinny, frazzled-nerve psych rock that many contemporary acts trade in, this is muscular music; widescreen and bold. They employ many of the classic elements of drone and psych rock (effects, repetition and tumbling rhythms) but nothing sounds particularly generic, referencing all manner of rock from Jane’s Addiction to The … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: The Grand Rapids | Great Shakes

Doubtful SoundsNovember 23, 2013January 13, 20141 Comment

Album Covers, Audio Stream, Electronica, Indie Rock, New Release, Post-Rock / Instrumental

NEW MUSIC: The Notwist announce new album

The Notwist (Germany) released one of 2002’s best albums in Neon Golden and now they’ve announced their new LP Close To The Glass will be released on February 21st, 2014. Word is the album finds the band working and writing as a cohesive unit rather than just a co-write by Markus and Micha Acher and Martin Gretschmann and it again features their seamless melding of traditional instrumentation with … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: The Notwist announce new album

Doubtful SoundsNovember 22, 2013Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Audio Stream, Funk, Guitar Rock, Pop

ALBUM REVIEW: Paul McCartney | New

After more than half a century Paul McCartney is still pushing his songwriter’s pen, seemingly with a desire to prove his worth in each successive generation. The last few decades haven’t been his strongest yet New, surprisingly, is something of a return to the essence of the ex-Beatle in terms of strong, melodic, pop songs. Not everything works, particularly on the lyrical front where he … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Paul McCartney | New

Doubtful SoundsNovember 15, 2013January 13, 2014Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Americana / Alt-Country, Folk, Guitar Rock, Psych

ALBUM REVIEW: Mazzy Star | Seasons of Your Day

Returning with their first album in seventeen years, it quickly becomes apparent that time doesn’t equate to change in the world of Mazzy Star. That is of course a good thing if you are fan of their earlier work as here they take those key elements of Hope Sandoval’s breathless, sensual voice and David Roback’s spacious, drifting musical canvases and wrap them around a batch … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Mazzy Star | Seasons of Your Day

Doubtful SoundsNovember 15, 2013January 13, 20141 Comment

Album Reviews, Garage Rock, Indie Rock, Psych, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: The Ancients | Night Bus

The third album from Melbourne’s The Ancients is a record that hurtles, ambles and breezes by with equal amounts of intricate musicality and simple skewed-pop broad strokes. There is a wistful 60s folk tinge to songs like House of Cards, the lighter contrast to their more layered and dense psych excursions such as the shoegaze haze of Hamster and the epic Molokai that manages to … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: The Ancients | Night Bus

Doubtful SoundsNovember 2, 2013January 13, 2014Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Guitar Rock, Psych, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: Pond | Hobo Rocket

Pond are and forever will be compared to Tame Impala, with whom they share a few members, and yes they both trade in retro-fitted psychedelic rock but dig below the surface and the two bands are clearly circling different planets. On Hobo Rocket they’ve pulled back on the overblown eccentricities that were generally to their detriment and produced a concise, freewheeling and fun album. The … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Pond | Hobo Rocket

Doubtful SoundsOctober 30, 2013January 13, 2014Leave a comment

Audio Stream, Electronica, MP3, New Release, News, Post-Rock / Instrumental

NEWS: Mogwai announce new LP Rave Tapes and release first track

News of a new Mogwai album is always reason to celebrate around these parts and so we were stoked to awake to read that their new LP Rave Tapes is set for release on 20 January 2014 via Spunk Records (Australia and New Zealand), Rock Action (UK and Europe) and Sub Pop (North America). The other good news is that producer Paul Savage (Mogwai Young Team … Continue reading NEWS: Mogwai announce new LP Rave Tapes and release first track

Doubtful SoundsOctober 29, 2013Leave a comment

Experimental, Indie Rock, Post-Punk, Video

WATCH: Kirin J Callinan | Landslide

Callinan is still spreading the good word on foreign shores (including CMJ) and getting great praise for his shows and album Embracism ahead of a return to Australia to play Laneway and support for Savages in January. He has also just released the video for one of my favourite Embracism tracks, the slow, bruised grace of Landslide. Continue reading WATCH: Kirin J Callinan | Landslide

Doubtful SoundsOctober 26, 2013Leave a comment

Album Covers, Americana / Alt-Country, Indie Rock, News, Pop

GIVEAWAY: Win a copy of Neko Case’s new album on vinyl

Neko Case recently released her new LP The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You and it finds her in fine form, possibly her best. The kind folks over at Warner Music and ANTI- have given us a copy of the album on vinyl (including a CD copy) to giveaway to one lucky DS reader. The album … Continue reading GIVEAWAY: Win a copy of Neko Case’s new album on vinyl

Doubtful SoundsOctober 23, 2013Leave a comment