Is Indie Music Dead? SUNDAY RECORDS Gives You The Loud And Dream Pop Clear Answer

Album: SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL
A 10 tracks compilation with 8 of the finest artists of Sunday Records
Sunday Records: An Indie Pop Label – with great ears, great taste and
a great vision – founded in 1990, Chicago, IL

To Turn Up The Volume‘s greedy ears, Indie will never disappear as long as
non-mainstream orientated artists put their heart and soul into whatever they
want to do musically, and as long as independent labels put their heart and
soul into giving the much-needed support to those adventurers.

This compilation shows loud and clear why alternative music is, overall, purer
and more genuine than what money-greedy big labels mostly sell. Of course, not
all indie stuff is good, and not all mainstream output is bad. In the end, it is the
music itself – whatever genre – that conquers – or not – the heart and soul of
the listener. But me/we need(s) indie for its adventurous spirit, its creative open-mindedness and we’ll see what happens approach.

Now back to the record. The featured artists are:

Strawberry Generation – affecting dream pop from Providence, Rhode Island, US
Letting Up Despite Great Faults (what a name) – shoegazy/dreamy jingle jangle electricity from Austin, Texas
Mariana In Our Heads – synth-driven daydream pop from Japan
Alpaca Sports – romantic Vampire Weekend-like pop from Sweden, Europe
The Arctic Flow – reveries about love, loss, joy and sadness from
a one-man-band based in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
The Suncharms – slow/fast melancholia pop from Sheffield, UK
Starry Eyed Cadet – dream pop with The Sundays echoes, San Francisco, CA
Sugar World – frisky dream guitar musings from San Diego, California

Enough said, stream/buy
all these beauties…


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San Diego Dream Pop Duo SUGAR WORLD Covers CHROMATICS’ Pearl ‘KILL FOR LOVE’ Gracioulsy

18 August 2020

SUGAR WORLD is a fresh San Diego collaboration with two members
of daydreamers band Naps. Last year they premiered two twinkling
guitar-driven pop songs. Sad In Heaven and We Fell In Love.

Earlier this year they shared their take on Yo La Tengo’s meditative beauty Shadows
and they follow it up now with another cover. This time it’s a winsome interpretation
of Chromatics’ starry-eyed pearl Kill For Love. And Sugar World truly shines with a dove-like version. Less orchestrated than the original, giving the song a more direct and more personal touch, the isolation effect we heard before from several other artists making music in quarantine.

Listen/watch here…

The Chromatics original…

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photo by Angela Satine