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The VPME | Track Of The Day - The Death Of Pop - 'Mirage'

Track Of The Day – The Death Of Pop – ‘Mirage’

17/07/2014 by Andy Von Pip

‘Mirage’ is from Bournemouth quintet The Death Of Pop, a masterful example of euphoric janglegaze pysch pop.  It’s an all-engulfing wave of glorious melodic noise with heroic chiming guitars and a languorous vocal that resides somewhere

Categories Track Of The Day Tags Art is Hard, Fuckin Hell It's Fred Titmus...Oh wait wrong tag, jangle, Shoegaze, slider, The Death Of Pop, Track Of The Day
The VPME | Track Of The Day - The History Of Apple Pie - 'Tame'

Track Of The Day – The History Of Apple Pie – ‘Tame’

11/07/2014 by Andy Von Pip

Slightly spooky wonky keyboards give way to a barrage of buzzing guitars on The History Of Apple Pie’s lead single ‘Tame’ from their forthcoming second album ‘Feel Something.’ Vocally they still recall the ‘sweetness and

Categories Track Of The Day Tags 'Feel Something', dreampop, Marshall Teller Records, Shoegaze, slider, Tame, The History Of Apple Pie
The VPME | Track Of The Day - Princess - 'Neverlook' 1

Track Of The Day – Princess – ‘Neverlook’

10/06/2014 by Andy Von Pip

If  Pale Saints had collided with Dinosaur Jr they may have sounded something like Dublin quartet Princess. By which we mean there’s a melodic delicacy juxtaposed with an electrifying sense of raw power with regard

Categories Track Of The Day Tags drone, Dublin, krautrock, Neverlook, New Music, Princess, Shoegaze, slider
The VPME | THE VPME Meets :  The Fauns - Interview 1

THE VPME Meets : The Fauns – Interview

09/06/2014 by Andy Von Pip

The Fauns who hail from Bristol first caught our attention back in 2009 with their eponymous self released debut album. It was an album awash with subtle cinematic dreampop beauty, although in retrospect it was

Categories Interviews Tags Alison Garner, Clint Mansell, Interview 2014, Invada Records, Lights, Michael Savage, Shoegaze, slider, The Fauns
The VPME | The Fauns / The Sundowners - Live Liverpool Shipping Forecast 11the April 2014 4

The Fauns / The Sundowners – Live Liverpool Shipping Forecast 11the April 2014

10/03/202215/04/2014 by Andy Von Pip

Let’s start at the end.  As Bristol’s shoegaze collective The Fauns left the stage after completing a jawdroppingly brilliant set you couldn’t help but muse on the fact that this is a band who’s sound

Categories Reviews Tags Live Music, Liverpool Shipping Forecast, Shoegaze, slider, The Fauns, The Sundowners
The VPME | Track Of The Day - Night Flowers - Bound 3

Track Of The Day – Night Flowers – Bound

27/03/2014 by Andy Von Pip

Humberside five-piece Night Flowers had already piqued the interest of the online music community when their debut release ‘Single Beds’ landed last year.  It was a sweet jangling pop song in the C86 Veronica Falls

Categories Track Of The Day Tags Dirty Bingo Records, new Music 2014, Night Flowers, Shoegaze, slider, Track Of The Day
The VPME | Track(s) Of The Day - A*Star - On The Edge Of Lost/ Catch The Moon 1

Track(s) Of The Day – A*Star – On The Edge Of Lost/ Catch The Moon

13/02/2014 by Andy Von Pip

A* Star combine dreamy vocals, whip smart lyrics and shoegazey guitars, to create a soundscape full of haunting beauty, sounding on occasion not unlike a blissed out Shirley Manson whilst retaining a vague undercurrent of

Categories Track Of The Day Tags A"Star, Boxing Clever Records, CURVE, Dean Garcia, dreampop, Kim Welsh, Perry Pelonero, Shoegaze, slider, Vinyl
The VPME | Track Of The Day - Weekend - 'Obliette' 1

Track Of The Day – Weekend – ‘Obliette’

17/01/2014 by Andy Von Pip

An ‘oubliette’ is a rather special kind of dungeon, one that normally has a single means of entrance and exit through a trap door in the ceiling – a dark ‘forgotten room’ hidden from view. 

Categories Track Of The Day Tags Jinks, Noisepop, Obliette, Shoegaze, slider, Track Of The Day, Weekend
The VPME | Track Of the Day - Drakes Hotel - 'Young Taste'

Track Of the Day – Drakes Hotel – ‘Young Taste’

10/11/2013 by Andy Von Pip

Ever had one of those moments when you stare up at the night sky and feel like a tiny insignificant dot when faced with the vastness of the universe?  We felt a little like that

Categories Track Of The Day Tags Drakes Hotel, Electro, Indie, Loves Not Lazy, New Music, Pop, Shoegaze, slider, Track Of The Day, Young Taste
The VPME | Track Of The Day - Venera 4 - 'Deaf Heartbeats'

Track Of The Day – Venera 4 – ‘Deaf Heartbeats’

24/10/2013 by Andy Von Pip

Parisian Psyche may not yet be huge in the UK, but one listen to Venera 4’s wonderful  ‘Deaf Hearts’Ep will have have you in raptures if shoegazy dream pop is your bag.  Not content with

Categories Track Of The Day Tags Dream pop, drone pop, French Shoegaze, Paris, psychedelic, Shoegaze, slider, Venera 4
The VPME | The VPME Meets BLESSA :  Interview 1

The VPME Meets BLESSA : Interview

23/10/201323/10/2013 by Andy Von Pip

If Sheffield five piece Blessa aren’t one of the most talked about bands of 2014, then it’s time for the so called tastemakers, the label bosses and the kingmakers to hand over the keys to

Categories Interviews, The Best Of Tags Between Times, Blessa, Bloom, Hookworms, Interview, Interviews 2013, New Music 2013, No Self Records, Olivia Neller, Sheffield, Shoegaze, slider
The VPME | Track Of The Day - Blessa - 'Between Times'

Track Of The Day – Blessa – ‘Bloom’

15/10/2013 by Andy Von Pip

We were intending to have a blog break this week but news of a new track from Blessa soon put paid to such foolish ideas.   To say we are somewhat enamoured by their music

Categories Track Of The Day Tags B side, Between Times, Blessa, Bloom, Hookworms, New Music 2013, No Self Records, Olivia Neller, Sheffield, Shoegaze, slider, Track Of The Day
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