I’ve been listening to the new Sassparilla album The Darndest Thing quite a lot during the last few weeks. This Portland-based group has created a pretty damn good americana album. This might not be the greatest video you’ll ever see, but I really like this song My First Lover and it’s not even my biggest favourite on the album. Beautifully crafted dark atmospheres.

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Cirrone from Italy was a big hit in the power pop world last year and most of my favourite power pop blogs featured Cirrone’s Uplands Park Road album on their year-end lists. For example the wonderful Powerpopaholic.com rated is as the best album of the year 2011. This beauty of an album has been playing in my headphones for the last week or so and …

Hall of Ghosts – A Random Quiet
This is not officially out until march, but I got a digital promo which I’ve been enjoying lately. Hall of Ghosts is a new project from Additional Moog’s Jim Williams. I can’t say I know too much about Additional Moog except that it was a highly respected UK alt-country band. I remember that I red good things about the …