Dirty Sound Magnet Keep on Dreaming…
They might live in a dystopic world but this won’t prevent Dirty Sound Magnet from dreaming! This much they promise with their new album, “Dreaming in Dystopia”. The follow up to their most successful LP to date, “DSM-III” (2022, Hummus Records), “Dreaming in Dystopia” is available now via the Melbourne-based indie label Wild Thing Records. […]
Dennis Kiss Finds Inspiration in Norddeich Mole
6 October 2023 saw the release of Dennis Kiss’s solo debut album. “Norddeich Mole” is out now on Young and Aspiring. Nurtured by the lively music scene of Baden, a small town near Zurich, Dennis Kiss enjoyed some success with the indie band Dennis Kiss & The Sleepers and their singles “Cecilia” and “Gin Tonic”. […]
A Declaration of Peace from Sirens of Lesbos
Out now via SOL/The Orchard is «Peace», the second album from the music/art collective Sirens of Lesbos. Featuring guests like Bootsy Collins, Erick the Architect and Treasure Bloom, it offers a thrillingly kaleidoscopic blend of styles with echoes from places as diverse as Outkast and Lee Perry, Sister Sledge, George Clinton or The Beloved. The […]
Cori Nora Explores Flowers and Fences
Out now via Irascible Records is «Flowers and Fences», the debut album from singer/synth and bass player Cori Nora. The style of her calm and subtle music is as difficult to describe as you’d expect from the multi-faceted interests of the players – all vocalists in their own right – who make up her band. […]
Alina Amuri Finds the Way Back To You
Entitled «Back to You», the Congolese/Swiss singer/songwriter Alina Amuri’s new album, her third, was released in mid-September via Pop-Up Records. Loosely conceived as a concept album, «Back to You» is a deeply personal record of Amuri’s recent, first return to her birthplace, Kinshasa. Born in the DR Congo and raised in Switzerland, Amuri may be […]
Rorcal Celebrating the Silence of Very Loud Noise
15 September 2023 saw the release on Hummus Records of the sixth album from much-travelled extreme metallists Rorcal. Entitled «Silence», it is quite possibly the loudest and most intense record ever to grace a record deck. Encyclopaedia Metallum describes their style as “Sludge/Doom Metal/Post-Hardcore” and the themes of their lyrics as “the apocalypse (early); tragedy, […]
Elvett Climbing the Hill
“Reborn”, they say, after a creative residency at Geneva’s Epicentre, electropop duo Elvett release their new album, «The Hill», via Mouthwatering Records. Elvett are Lyn (vocals) and Alain (production). Together, they have been releasing a steady stream of elegant electropop singles and albums since around 2015. Almost as long they have been collaborating with singer […]
Reto Burrell Sings With the Devil
Via Indiecom/Echopark arrives Reto Burell’s latest album, «Devil on my Tongue». His eleventh, it was once again produced by the artist himself in his own Echopark studio in a disused school surrounded by the mountains of central Switzerland. The German edition of Classic Rock compared him to Graham Parker and John Cougar Mellencamp. Elsewhere, he […]
Goldschatz Fanning the Flames
Fresh from Little Jig Records comes a new EP from husband/wife team Goldschatz, aka Timothy Jaromir and Rykka. Called «Twin Flame», it documents “life in a van”, with all its joys, jokes and horrors. Thus, “Gemini” tells the story of when the duo sought refuge from the weather in a pub that happened to be […]
Warm Songs in Cold Weather from Wintershome
Five years after their debut, Wintershome are releasing their long-awaited follow up via Irascible. Entitled «Below Zero», it was once again produced by Ryan Hadlock (The Lumineers, Brandi Carlile, Vance Joy) who travelled to Amsterdam for these recordings from his own Bear Creek Studio in the suburbs of Seattle. Hailing from Zermatt in the shadow […]
