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INDIE
ISSUE 88 / 2016
GUESTLIST RECOMMANDS:
WEST OF THE SUN
Hot off the back of their latest
release ‘Siberian Hysteria’, North
London based band West Of
The Sun are ready for round two
with ‘Trip on a Turntable’ to be
released on 17th June via Phoney
War Records.
The psychedelic rock & roll five piece, who already
have two self-released EPs and slots at the 100
Club, Bush Hall and Camden Rocks Festival under
their belts, are set to release their debut album later
this year. Fusing elements of psychedelia, trip-hop
beats and conventional guitar-laden rock & roll, they
have themselves referred to their sound as coming
from the ‘big beat manifesto’, and the result is a
sound that falls somewhere between Echo & The
Bunnymen and Django Django.
West Of The Sun explain about the idea behind ‘Trip
on a Turntable’: “The track is ultimately imagining
a life spent revolving on a turntable listening to
one’s favourite music. How life can be so difficult
without it and what often keeps us going is that four
minute moment of escaping into the parallel world
every music lover creates via their favourite tunes.
Musically, it’s certainly the ‘heaviest’ track we’ve
done so far and feels like a real fresh approach and
departure from the psychedelic pop sound I suppose
people would usually associate us with. We wanted
to lead this track with drums and bass - really push
them to the front of the mix and not concentrate so
much on the intricacy of the guitar parts and vocal
harmonies.”
ARTIST OF THE MONTH:
INHEAVEN
Shoegaze for fans of Echo & the Bunnymen
Guestlist recommends InHeaven for
a healthy dose of backwards-looking
grunge rock. With a sound building on
the shoegaze, grunge and indie of the
80s and 90s, the band is creating a
retro sound with a soul that sounds all
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new. Their first single ‘Regeneration’ is
a raucous youth anthem with a guitar
twangy enough and reverb strong
enough to attract listeners of indie as
well as listeners of more experimental
guitar or pop music. Their more recent
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single ‘Bitter Town’, like ‘Regeneration’,
captures the feeling of aspiring to
something or somewhere slightly out of
reach.
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