“Lady Lyon’s mighty country blows the bricks off the walls, muscular and funny and tender and tough all at the same time. Built like a haybarn, designed for the hoedown, and here for the very best times.” Gallery Listen
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“花溪 Flowerstream bring innovative, intricate, and haunting textures of sound, and it’s both unlike you’ve anything ever heard yet strangely comforting and familiar.” Gallery Listen
“Sonic Reducer bite and nip at your ankles, all teeth and unpredictable chaos wrapped in an improbably danceable racket. In among the mess and the spillage are rip-roaring tunes, classically built and then turned inside out for fun.” Gallery Listen
“Maple’s Pet Dinosaur have waaay more than one trick up their sleeve, with recent viral sensation ‘lego’ being just one part in the big machine of this wildly impressive set. Make no mistake, there are equally large piles of talent and enthusiasm here – the manic and charming teenage goofiness adds giddy fun to singer […]
“Lady Lyon snap and crackle like livewires, grins as big as the jolt, great big country twang mashed into a high wattage bulb.” Gallery Listen
“Letters To Lions return to the fray with both feet on the accelerator pedal, the set snarling like a tuned engine. Great to see them back in the wild once more.” Gallery Listen
“Freak Slug bring it both angular and rounded, arty all the way through with either sharp edges or fuzzy, soaring melody depending on their mood. It’s impossible not to dive into, a set with both depth and warmth waiting for you.” Gallery Listen
“DOOR PLANT are pretty much perfect. I’d end it there but I can’t help myself. From literally the first note it’s crashingly mad and it’s brilliant waves of poppy guitar noise and melody, it’s so danceable you’ll pull a muscle and it’s occasionally so loud with distortion to displace a retina. It is, as I’ve […]
“BOCCE venture out of Tassie for the first time, treating us to a rock solid set of sky-wide indie rock, all big horizons and brightly twinkly stars.” Gallery Listen