Even Butterflies Make A Sound
From This View is the third long playing helping of dreampop from Magic Seas, featuring Chelmsford brothers James and John Prudence. It follows last year’s album Everything Has Led Me To Here. From This View’s chiming guitars and washes of shimmering keyboards offer nine cuts of soaring soundscapes for the Magic Seas’ tales of solitude […]
Chelmsford dreampoppers, MAGIC SEAS, today (26 April) released their superb second LP, Everything Has Led Me To Here. Mark Gardener, of RIDE, once again took the helm and navigated the production waters. Brothers John and James Prudence kindly took the time to answer a few questions. I wanted to find out what, in fact, were […]
On a New Year holiday to San Francisco, Anthony Gibbons headed to legendary music venue The Fillmore, a focal point for 1960s counterculture and psychedelic music, to catch The Charlatans (UK) (natch) and Ride. He reports on their 4 January 2024 show.
Ok, it’s a rubbish heading, but it brought you here, right? But, please, read on, it gets better… In a remarkable twisterella, two current bandmates have been involved in extracurricular projects. Léanie Kaleido’s third album was produced by Mark Gardener; while Andy Bell has a solo single out. Keen shoegazers will note that both Gardener […]
Andy Bell, snapped by Sharia Bell. To celebrate his fiftieth birthday, Andy Bell recently released his psychedelic summer single ‘Love Comes In Waves’. However, his half-century also led him to contemplate his mortality. Video still for ‘Love Comes In Waves’. The seven inch is the harbinger of the new album The View From Halfway Down […]