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My latest YouTube album review. This time Assistant and their new record, Certain Memories. @assistantband.bsky.social Enjoy and check out their bandcamp for CD, vinyl, or digital copies. #albumreview #hearwitness youtu.be/9o6a0IufkZk

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

All round splendidness courtesy of one of the best radio shows and most interesting records of 2025 so far - both v much worth your time!

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Really enjoying this laid back, loose, very Antipodean E.P from Melbourne's Carpet Burn at the moment. It came out via Spoilsport Records but only discovered it this morning. Sunny in Brighton today. carpetburnlarping.bandcamp.com/album/time-t...

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The brilliant Zenxith has released another new and beautiful and collectable 7” single. Limited to only 30 copies on his super Salt Mine Records label! Such a pretty song. zenxith.bandcamp.com/album/goodbye

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One of those songs that elicits the same effect every single time I hear it - hairs standing up on the back of my neck. Blissful riffing from The Blue Aeroplanes youtu.be/QML9akZ8a7A?...

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Here's a page from my fanzine; a loooong list of records from last year that I loved. There's some cool stuff here if you fancy digging around.

submitted 42 days ago • 6 comments

Some fine uplifting music reviews. Please support & share the artists. meatsheetfanzine.com/glare-has-gu... #theawakening #darkwave #Glare #guts #album #shoegaze #MyRainingStars #shelfliferecords #ForGood #britpop #AndyBell #Ride #Glok #SonicCathedral #pinballwanderer #UK #postpunk #innerstrings

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One of the best songs to be released in 2025 - so great I bought multiple copies 👌👌👌👌👌 Please buy one so I'm not tempted to buy them all myself 😊😂😊 then you might regret it 😖 @lovejoy-official.bsky.social @spinoutnuggets.bsky.social lovejoyofficial.bandcamp.com/album/let-th...

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This (forthcoming) zine has got some really good stuff about Twin Peaks, preserved bedrooms, Mark Fisher/K-Punk, Tracey Emin, indie pop and dead soldiers in it. Ever the crowd-pleaser.

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This is an Assistant song called Fresh Ingredients and it's about going back to one's childhood bedroom and observing the distance between what we remember (or want to remember) and what's real. Associated fanzine coming soon - contributions welcome www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPBl...

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New zine about childhood bedrooms is now about mid-way done. If you've ever gone back to that old, transformed or preserved space as an adult and made something there (art? a song? I dunno, anything), can you tell me about it? Is there a song/feeling about childhood bedrooms that matters to you?

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Hey! If anyone can still go on to Facebook--WE NEED YOUR VOTE for a battle of the bands thing. Go to the link and like our photo in the post--that's it! that is a vote! Thanks! linktr.ee/VOTEforCOUCH...

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Sea of Days single out now on all streaming platforms. If you like what you hear any shares, likes, follows and playlist adds are always welcome 🤗 #shoegaze #indie

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Dredged up from our bones with all our love & energy - this is Certain Memories, the new LP by Assistant. Memory, love, family, loss: smuggled into yr ears via melodic indie pop. Vinyl/CD pre-order now up. Thanks so much to everyone who has helped us with this. assistant.bandcamp.com/album/certai...

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

Impulse zine-making underway at this end

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Impulse zine-making underway at this end

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Follow the excellent @band6.bsky.social if you’re not already!

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This is a horribly specific bit of commissioning, but if you have written a song or would like to write a song about your childhood bedroom, or have a photo of it -- or a thought about it -- tell me now because I am doing a thing. #intheaprilsun #freshingredients

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Missed this enjoyably exuberant single last year, but have discovered it now & I like it a lot! Plastic Act are from Montreal and do a nice line in instinctive pre-post-punk which manages to be both feral & arch. The lead track has a gloriously unchanging riff plasticact.bandcamp.com/album/plasti...

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A page about Blue Orchids from the second issue of our In The April Sun zine (cc: @tinyglobalmusic.bsky.social)

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A very unvarnished & unplugged answer to the question “what does it sound like when you’re looking after a parent with dementia?” youtu.be/VHBHoefVFq0?...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

An absolutely brilliant set of songs, this. Go go go

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Ask Julian Cope: What’s the best reason for being alive? 💚💚

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

An old clip of me figuring out the chords to Zenxith’s excellent The Girl Who Waved At Trains. youtube.com/shorts/2K3Xb...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

New Sounds Can't Wait For Spring Recommended reading here In The April Sun #2 from @assistantband.bsky.social The cover says it all - "A Love Letter to Indie Pop" in the form of a music and summer holiday fanzine! Check it out here: assistant.bandcamp.com/merch/in-the...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

@assistantband.bsky.social asked me if I would contribute to his bijoux zine; I leapt at the chance! It's packed with great bands/writing, a joy to edit together this piece. You can order on their Bandcamp (I've got both the recent CD and zine pictured). Thank you for this wonderful experience!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s reading goal achieved + thanks @assistantband.bsky.social + although I think Kevin got my copy! 🌅🤷‍♂️

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In the Tokyo February sun… (Featuring Komazawa Olympic Park Control Tower architecture-tokyo.com/2016/08/10/1...) @assistantband.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Sadly it's not April yet, but at least it's sunny, and this gem of a fanzine is improving my mood a lot! Thank you, @assistantband.bsky.social - what an absolute pleasure to read!

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Like issue 2, the first issue of my IN THE APRIL SUN fanzine is £2 for the next hour or so: assistant.bandcamp.com/merch/in-the...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I've halved the price of my 52 page indie pop and travel fanzine for the next couple of hours. If you want a copy, get one now! Will be £2 'til midday or so assistant.bandcamp.com/merch/in-the...

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