Curving Through the Dark – Dark Horses’ “Hail Lucid State”
Arcing somewhere between dangerous dark synth pop and Curve-obsessed indie, it’s no surprise Dark Horses arrive...
Author: Dave Cantrell
Every Moment Springs Inside its Own Complexity – Vashti Bunyan’s “Heartleap”
You’ve come through storms, you’ve suffered lulls. A long public silence nearly swallowed you whole. Life...
Spinning the Personal through the Universal and Vast – Peter Matthew Bauer’s “Liberation!”
Though tempting to attribute the album title of Peter Matthew Bauer’s debut solo record to the...
The Pop Group Are A Pop Group – “We Are Time” & “Cabinet of Curiosities”
Listening to the recent brace of Pop Group reissues, in this case We Are Time and...
The Next NEXT Twenty Current Post-Punk Bands You Should Know About
In what’s fast becoming a Stereo Embers tradition if not a bloody institution, we offer you...
Running Quiet Circles Around A Dizzied Heart – Mark Rogers & Mary Byrne “I Line My Days Along Your Weight” (with exclusive album track stream)
One has expectations. Two musicians, a man and a woman, sat within inches of each other...
Punching Out Your Pop Lights – Field Mouse’s “Hold Still Life”
You might suspect a band begun by a music composition major while still in university would...
Odd Little Concept, Solid Debut – Happyness’s “Weird Little Birthday”
Yes, on Weird Little Birthday, Glasgow band Happyness bear an eerie similarity in places to Sparklehorse...
Stereo Embers EXCLUSIVE – Stream WAVEFUNCTION, the new album from Arrica Rose & the …’s
Every year about this time a gem of a record sneaks...
Unassuming, Eloquent Masterpiece – WAVEFUNCTION by Arrica Rose & the …’s
Some artists just get it right. Though there’s nothing wrong with all the vinyl bandwagon-jumping lately...