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Packaging featuring Sugar Candy Mountain - On Holiday (Share It Music) [Alternative Pop]
"the increasingly psychedelic sounds, and probably a few pheromone's, swirling around the room"
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 252 min read


Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys - Anchor (Unique) [Alternative Pop]
"there's an uncompromising tone and serious intent to the soft edged delivery and you suspect you're going to be in for a treat, confirmed by the downtempo, post punkish dub bassline"
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 241 min read


Lucrecia Dalt - A Danger to Ourselves (RVNG INTL.) [Alternative Pop]
"balances Dalt’s stubborn experimentalism with a more accessible pop sheen, but ultimately it’s a triumph for perseverance and time honing her studio and song craft"
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 202 min read


Aaron Lindh - Heroine (Virtually Nonexistent)
"A lo-fi pop haze of field recordings, ambient electronics and a low key moody guitar motif gets the track rolling, setting a suitably opiated vibe for Lindh's hushed vocals"
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 202 min read


Modern Nature - The Heat Warps (Bella Union) [Alt Pop]
"worked on stripping down the sound without sacrificing the message or artistic vision, and only gone and made a genuine alt-pop album"
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 162 min read


Hussain Bokhari - Possessions (Mood Hut)
"Lovely all-rounder album on a mellow, lo-fi, slacker-balearic tip."
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 121 min read


Perera Elsewhere - Fountain (Friends of Friends)
"Elsewhere showing her vocal versatility by switching between tower block spitting and dream soul, both styles effortlessly riding the broken beats and late night mood."
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 102 min read


Marie Noreger - Forever Young (Daworks)
marrying decades and melting hearts as the succinct production and pop purity drifts through the speakers, immediately leapfrogging her overproduced peers
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 261 min read


Swimming Pool - Line Cuts (Fog & Co)
"they geeked out and hit it off over music, a keen interest in coding languages, digital synthesis and electronically assisted genre fluidity, which they've translated into some thoughtful, seriously crafted alternative music. I like them."
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 252 min read


Erika Dohi with the Metropolis Ensemble - Ame Onna (Switch Hit)
" It's a beguiling, beautiful and far out slice of cosmic dream pop and boding very well for Myth of Tomorrow, her forthcoming album."
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 192 min read


Brandon De La Cruz - New Signs (Self Release)
"slightly more urgent acoustic guitar work threads its way through the impeccably detailed psychoactive electronica that melts just above the song and then drips through every note and word."
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 162 min read


Waz-u - Vermillion: G major feat G9 LUV and Lilyg (Biodiversity Studios)
"Lilyg's vocal which immediately weaves its way through the soundscape, gently swirling the ambient electronica in its tailwinds"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 241 min read


Chris Lippincott, Maya de Vitry, David Williford - Over and Over (Self Release)
This is as serious a slice of alt-pop as you'll hear all year, honestly it's a really beautiful track - tune in.
The Slow Music Movement
Apr 171 min read


Sólstrauman - How The River Flows (Remix by Saltbreaker) [re:memory]
On the remix Saltbreaker opts for a warmer, smoother approach by largely ditching the surface noise and the minimal piano lines, exchanging them for more comforting sonic swathes
The Slow Music Movement
Apr 151 min read


blorgpulkfplorksickle - In the meadows, he saw trees of white flowers (Self Release)
It's a fine slice of liquid, D&B powered pop and another accomplished showcase for this restless producer
The Slow Music Movement
Mar 311 min read


Adios Ghost - D.Y.T. (Self Release)
The latest single is a feel nice slice of disco pop, with a debt to the sparklier sounds of Studio 54 and sepia saturated 80's synth pop
The Slow Music Movement
Mar 211 min read


MAUGER, Sophia Ammann - The Building (Mindless)
It's a pleasantly microdosed, bittersweet, consummately crafted and timeless alt-pop gem that's been on repeat the last few days.
The Slow Music Movement
Mar 192 min read


IE - Simplify (Quindi)
A simple, sombre rhythm underpins the sparkling, low key lysergic dirge, it's pulsing melancholy saved from depression by the lighter tones
The Slow Music Movement
Mar 171 min read


Arkanna - The Answer (Self Release)
tradition is briskly dispelled by some solid beats that anchor the ambient electronica, sparingly used string refrain and the undoubted star
The Slow Music Movement
Mar 11 min read


Big Bend - Last Circle in a Slowdown (Shimmy-Disc)
There’s a real folkiness to proceedings with Phillips falsetto urged higher by the acoustic guitar picking and post modern piano tinkling
The Slow Music Movement
Feb 21 min read


Mystery Tiime - Maudlin Tales Of Grief & Love (Vicious Charm)
hints of his dance music deviance littering the low lit 80s and post punk nodding instrumentals
The Slow Music Movement
Jan 161 min read


Quinn Oulton - Lead You To Water EP (DeepMatter)
sees him heading further into soulful pop territory, but this is not autotuned, music by numbers fare, it's loose, live and swinging.
The Slow Music Movement
Dec 4, 20242 min read


Nelson Devereaux - infinity (Youngbloods)
Devereaux runs absolute stylistic riot veering between bedroom pop, madcap synth abuse, weirdo outsiderism and jazz futurism
The Slow Music Movement
Nov 29, 20241 min read


SiS - Vibhuti (Native Cat)
I rarely have time to look back in the rear view mirror whilst swerving recklessly through the music release avalanche, lest I get buried...
The Slow Music Movement
Nov 5, 20242 min read
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