Sun Dial's archives have been getting a pretty thorough combing through over the last few years and I'm all for it.  Firstly I'm...

This six-piece Portland band are making some of the most impressive tribal psychedelic rock I've heard in recent years. Their 2022 relea...

The return of Candidate has been one of the most welcome occurrences of recent years and while Point Clear , their first album of original t...

There's nothing I like better than some cosy and unashamedly vintage synth and Simon Crocket's Predecimal is one of the best albums ...

The Owl Service's sizeable discography has had a fair bit of tinkering with over the last few years, with an intimidating number of rele...

Emerging from Trieste in 1972, Dream Sequence (Elena Leitner, Giulia Leitner, and Sofia Martini) forged an Italian take on ...

On this second go around for the Active Listener I intend to occasionally share some deserving music from my home country New Zealand. We...

This  Saskatchewan trio's regular fare is pretty closely aligned to the La Luz school of surf guitars and girl-group vocals - which they...

Here's another that's not new (but new to me and hopefully some of you too). Ghosts of Jupiter is the sort of band that I'd have...

Junkboy's previous album Sovereign Sky  was one of my favourite albums from my first stint on the Active Listener so it's only natur...