“I wanted the music to feel more like the Earth does when left to its own devices,” Rafiq Bhatia has said of his forthcoming album Environments. With that idea at the centre of it all, Bhatia gently constructed a new world of his own making, eight new songs that "
Welcome to Lost Souvenirs, a brand new radio show from GoldFlakePaint. It's an hour of music, all carefully curated and gently mixed; a revolving spotlight of new and old songs, from one to the other and back again. Lost Souvenirs feels like a nice complement to the words
It takes a little heart and a lotta guts to open your album with a meandering, even-paced nine-minute story song, but we're in safe hands here. Released just last week, Before The Future is the latest work from NYC songwriter Rebecca Schiffman and it starts just like that;
In the decade-and-some since his hushed breakthrough, Keaton Henson has crafted a rich and varied back catalogue that has taken in everything from Big Star-influenced sparkly indie-pop to last year's truly striking instrumental work Somnambulant Cycles. In spite of those varied endeavours, he remains somewhat pigeonholed as a
Where much of Noah Weinman's previous work felt all tender and stripped-back, his latest work, shaped into a brand new album arriving at the end of August, opens up a whole new landscape, a natural growing into driving, propulsive indie-rock that sits as something of homage to the
Last week, Stockholm-based four-piece Dag och Natt released 'Tunis', the third single from their forthcoming debut album – 'Years And Years', which is set for release on August 15th via Labrador Records – and it feels like one of those moments that raises the stakes, that redefines the
Hovvdy, good friends and followers... Well, it's one of those weeks again. So much good stuff to pick through and pull apart here, so many colours and textures to shift and move around. A lot of it is gentle and swaying, such is the way; almost all of
Seattle's Coral Grief have just released their debut album, Air Between Us, an absorbing collection of twelve songs that simmer and break; that occasionally shrink, before coming alive once more in a shimmer of shoegaze noise. Led by Lena FM's spiralling voice, the trio – which also
The debut song, from the debut album, of Aïda Mekonnen Caby is a subtle swoon – but it's not a wholly romantic one. There's soft colour here, a sunset hue perhaps, but there's a sense of an edge too, a kind of disorientation that never
Yesterday I asked a friend how they felt about Sundays, if it felt like an outlier to them, slightly skewed when compared to the rest, if and how it carries its own unique kind of weight. I think it does. I think also that the same can be said for
It's always a joy to dip into the world of Winspear, the L.A. label that we've been covering for years here on GFP, through releases from the likes of Slow Pulp, Kevin Krauter, Barrie and loads more. New to the stable is runo plum, a
Winnipeg quintet Living Hour are today sharing new song 'Wheel', alongside the announcement of a brand new album, Internal Drone Infinity, which is out October 17 via their new home (and our favourite label) Keeled Scales. The band worked on the new album alongside Melina Duterte, better known