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This is our 400th post on the Fuzz. Enjoy! Two shoegaze/dreampop releases by a London-based and mixed-sex band in the same week. Yesterday I celebrated Veronica Falls’ sophomore album and today the debut of the brand new The History Of Apple Pie inspires me to write sweet words. This colourful quintet formed in the year that [...]
One and a half years ago I labeled the self-titled debut of the London based band Veronica Falls as one of the best debuts of 2011. ‘The best of the best from Lush, Belle & Sebastian, The Pixies, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Ride, The Velvet Underground, The Xx, The Dum Dum Girls, [...]
Dublin’s quartet The Cast of Cheers have chosen their band name well. Their bouncy mix of math-pop and new wave is cause for jubilations. Catchy like Two Door Cinema Club, spiky like Foals and edgy like Dutch Uncles, the band, who released their debut album Chariot in 2010 as an online freebee, sound very twenty-tens. [...]
Givers is a band from Lafayette, Louisiana, that could still turn out to be this year’s trendsetters of the American alternative circuit. In Light, the band’s recently released debut, is filled to the rim with varied and irresistible pop songs. Opening Track Up Up Up leans heavily on African rhythms. It’s wayward boy-girl vocals and a apparent [...]