Lizzie No, - country flecked, smart, beautifully sang pop adjacent songs. I mean there’s one song on 5 million listens but 16k listeners seems wildly out of step with how good Halfsies is.
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Plus back in the day Dean Wareham had the looks too. I couldn’t ever see Luna being massive but they should have been Lemonheads at their peak level big.
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Not sure they hung on to the Galaxie 500 fans - it’s always difficult for someone to make it in a second band, but they were pretty good, yeah.
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W. H. Lung
3 great albums now and one of the best live bands around!
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100%, im hoping people are just being slow to catch up to their progression from motorik jam band to indie synth masters you have to dance to (but also motorik noise sometimes)
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I’ve mentioned them elsewhere on a similar thread, but Field Music seem to have a surprising small audience given the accessibility of their music.
Tennis, who have sadly called it quits in the past couple of weeks. A good example of a band whose career was derailed by the pandemic - Swimmer came out in the February of 2020 and was surely destined to be their breakthrough album.
Holiday Ghosts now have several albums of wonderfully catchy guitar pop to their name but still seem to fly under the radar.
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Got a new album out June, with some typically strong singles. His last album got a lot of praise but I think the one before, For My Mama… is probably his most cohesive project overall
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This is great, thank you!
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Courting’s latest LP is an absolute pop-punk banger and they are a lot of fun live. Genuinely think they should be on R1 and R6 and playing pretty high up at festivals this summer.
Feel like we’re still working out how this has affected “the industry” or whatever and reckon 90% of the bands mentioned in this thread will have seen their careers somehow stalled or messed up by it.
Obviously, there was the lack of live shows during the lockdowns, as well as the record pressing plant backlog. I think the other thing is that in the 1-2 years after the last UK lockdown, the live circuit was so saturated with pretty much every band coming back into touring, that lead-ins on shows got really long (12months+) and bands who perhaps pre-pandemic would have been taking the step up and aiming for more of those 200+ venues were having to settle for those sub-100 rooms simply to get tours/shows booked in. I’m also noticing that there are swathes of bands who hit the post-lockdown touring cycle pretty hard seem a bit burned out now.
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I’m going to say BOKO YOUT
But I’m also going to caveat that by saying that I’m sure they’re going to be massively successful. A support tour with Viagra Boys & a debut album on the way …I’m pretty sure it’s just a matter of time. There is no possible future in which Paul is not a star I reckon
Everyone really, i saw an amazing band recently in a 100-seat venue with loads of empty seats. The inequality of music wrecks my head a bit sometimes, like you’ll see pop behemoths who are selling out 40,000 capacity venues and people will still be saying ‘i hope they get the big push on this next album!’, and it’s like idk, they seem to be doing ok?
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Came in here to say these guys.
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Death Valley Girls, about as good as garage psych gets. Feels like that sound has done well over the last years and they should have been caught up in that movement but sadly not
Wild Pink - . They make totally accessible thoughtful music that could easily see them being like, Decemberists big. Especially since they have linked up with MJ Lenderman and work in a similar vibe. But they seem to have hit a ceiling of about 100 cap venue size
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had a listen, liked it and then couldn’t fucking believe the size of the venues he’s playing later this year
him at The Lexington for less than £20? hell yeah!
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To quote myself from another thread that I now can’t find, how is The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads by Lift To Experience not a comfortably established part of the American cult canon?
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Reckon the jazz aspect turns some people off maybe? But that’s just a stab in the dark. Jazz rap isn’t breaking through outside it core fans at the moment. Or maybe it’s the fact he’s got a fair bit of press outside rap circles?
I think this post confirms that I agree with you haha
The vocals are flat. If you’re gonna write lyrics in a mania like that, your voice has to bring it. Needed a David Tibet or a Nick Cave type. Music was great though.
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Genesis Owusu.
Brilliant live, tonnes of tunes.crosses multiple genres so rock, pop and rap folks should love him. He should be ALL over BBC 6. Never heard them mention him in passing…
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