Silance Celebrating the “Nouveau Genre”
Out now via Two Gentlemen is “Nouveau Genre”, the debut album from Lausanne-based singer Silance. With a handful of EPs under her belt, last autumn’s single and video featuring the album’s title track pretty much set the agenda for what has now followed. “Nouveau Genre” is a statement of solidarity from an androgynous lesbian to […]
Monte Mai Feeling Kaleidoscopic
Describing themselves as a “Swiss Grenadian psychedelic pop trio”, Monte Mai’s multi-coloured debut album “Eye Sea Double” is available now on Il Domani/On the Camper Records. Along with the basic digital release comes a suitably colourful array of extra formats including a limited-edition vinyl “Psycho Set” containing a customisable cover with three different screen print […]
Sam Himself Never Wants You to Let Him Go
Available now via Sony Music/Taxi Gauche is “Never Let Me Go”, the swift follow-up to the admirably hard-working Sam Himself’s much admired debut album of not even a year and a half ago. Having spread his message with a long list of gigs in Europe and the US gigs throughout 2022, Mr Himself is celebrating […]
The Sound of Voice and Bass Falling in Love…
One moment, Swiss singer/synth-player Lea Maria Fries and French bassist/producer Julien Herné happened to meet on a stage in Paris. The next, they fell in love, and the next they released an album. “Et.nu” by et.nu is available now from Prolog Records with distribution by Broken Silence/Believe. Previously linked with Berlin, Zurich-born, -raised and -educated […]
Tobias Preisig Coming Closer and Closer
2 February 2023 sees the release of “Closer”, volume two of a trilogy of solo albums by Zurich-based violinist Tobias Preisig. “Closer” reaches us via Quiet Love Records in vinyl as well as digital form. The first part of the trilogy, «Diver», came out just before the pandemic. Preisig describes the process of making that […]
Sandor Handing out Medals
Three years after her highly praised debut, synthwave singer/songwriter Sandor follows this up with a new album entitled “La Médaille”. It was released on 3 February 2023 on Ouragan Records. Based in Sierre in the French part of Switzerland, Sandor’s muse is steeped as deeply in French chanson as it is in 1980s synth pop. […]
What do you mean, “loud”?
Hummus Records are taking the new year by the scruff of the neck with two raucous new live albums from their house-bands, Coilguns and Closet Disco Queen. Taking advantage of a temporary loosening of Covid regulations, Coilguns’ “Live at Soulcrusher” (released 13 January 2023) was recorded in October 2021 at the Soulcrusher Festival in Nijmegen, […]
Eurosonic 2023
Is there a better way to recover from the festive season than the Eurosonic? If there is, we haven’t heard about it and we don’t want to. Especially this time round when, after our Covid-induced exile in digital-land, we are able to return to the full-fat, high- octane real world version in Groningen from 18 […]
Pronto Ready for More
Out now via Universal is “Luno V”, the second album from the rapper, Pronto. Produced mostly by himself, with a little help from a friend, young Zurich-based producer, Yung MoXart, “Luno V” shows a much more introvert side of the rapper whose Ghanaian parents were musicians and dancers themselves. Having spent several months in Ghana […]
«We Are Ava» Are Be-Side Themselves
Having hit the Swiss top 50 with their debut album “Inner Gardening” last autumn, electro-pop trio We Are Ava finish off 2022 with a new five-track EP. Entitled “B-Side”, it is released on Muve Records. Somewhat confusingly, we must admit, it does not actually contain a single “b-side” in old vinyl-days sense of the word – […]
