Another Tune from Maff
Chile’s Maff have already given us one spectacular single, and they’re back with a new tune…this time in English. Once you listen, you’ll clearly hear the distinctive sound of shoegaze, though I’m particularly fond of the presentation here. The verses are soft, predominantly percussion and reverb vocals. It’s the space in between verses where the pedals jump in with walls of distorted guitars cascading down through your speakers. Perhaps the strength of the group is the restraint, as they craft their noise around a central melody, never jumping too far into the noisiness that accompanies the work of many a peer. The band will release their Melanina EP, and let’s hope that sets the tone for a future LP, as I can’t get enough of this.
Collectively, 
The Ancients
Last year’s In the Garden, In the Night EP made huge waves across the music landscape, cementing Emi Night as a songwriter to keep your eyes upon. 
London-based 
Clearly this is the show pop fans have been waiting for, and you’d better get there right at 6:30 so you can prepare yourself for 
San Fran’s 
It’s still really hard to listen to A Crow Looked at Me; it just seems like something so personal that I had a hard time listening, as much as I loved the songs. But, 
Thirty years into the career of