Tag Archives: art pop

CAUGHT UP IN A SPHERE: AN INTERVIEW WITH POLLY SCATTERGOOD

Posted Mar 13, 2020

interview by Michael McCarthy On May 1st, Polly Scattergood of solo and onDeadWaves fame will release her breath-taking new solo album, In This Moment. It features 12 tracks that each tell their own story, which one might breathe in like unique snapshots. These scenes portray everything from hospital waiting rooms to Viking sea...

BETTER IN THE DARK: AN INTERVIEW WITH YAEL NAIM ABOUT HER NEW ALBUM NIGHTSONGS

Posted Feb 20, 2020

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interview by Michael McCarthy I was recently blessed with the opportunity to hear Franco-Israeli singer/songwriter Yael Naïm’s fifth studio album Nightsongs, which will be released via Believe Music on March 20, 2020. Although her songs have largely been introspective throughout her career, I was moved by just how much more personal the tracks...

CALLING OREGON: AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH BRIAN HALL OF TENTS

Posted Sep 15, 2019

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by Michael McCarthy When I listen to indie pop band TENTS‘ dreamy new album, Medicine, I tend to feel like I’m floating in the clouds, perhaps riding a magic carpet. Their music sweeps you up, almost providing an out of body experience, giving one a natural high. Suffice to say, listening to it...

#amlistening / #nowlistening = OH LAND: “SALT (ARTHUR MOON REMIX)”

Posted Sep 5, 2019

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Oh Land ( Nanna Øland Fabricius) and Arthur Moon (Lora-Faye Åshuvud), two artists we've interviewed this year, have collaborated on a new EP! ...

#songoftheday = LAURE SHANG: “I LOVE YOU 2”

Posted Sep 6, 2018

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#songoftheday X3 / #picksoftheweek / #amlistening = LAURE SHANG, DOE PAORO, REBECCA & FIONA

Posted Aug 18, 2018

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Today we have three exceptionally good pop tunes of very different styles, all works of art in our opinion....

A KING AND A QUEEN: AN INTERVIEW WITH L.A. GIRLFRIEND (A.K.A. SYDNEY BANTA)

Posted Jul 2, 2018

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interview by Michael McCarthy Sydney Banta has been known as L.A. Girlfriend for as long as most critics and bloggers can remember. And they do remember her. Most of them raved about her when she put out her first EP roughly 10 years ago and they haven’t stopped talking about her since. Right...

#songoftheday / #amlistening = LOWELL: “WAR FACE”

Posted Apr 6, 2018

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"I wear my war face," proudly proclaims captivating singer/songwriter Lowell on "War Face," the first single from her mind-blowing new album entitled Lone Wolf. The album is her second and was released today on 4/6/18 and my jaw is still on the floor after it dropped as I...

BULGARIA CALLING: AN INTERVIEW WITH RUTH KOLEVA

Posted Mar 26, 2018

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interview by Michael McCarthy Ruth Koleva might be from Bulgaria, but after doing this interview I feel confident in saying that she speaks English better than I do. That’s the God’s honest truth. She makes better music, too! In other words, she’s quite the talented person, which you can discover by listening to...

BEANTOWN BOUND: AN INTERVIEW WITH KIMBRA

Posted Jan 15, 2018

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interview by Michael McCarthy On January 28th Kimbra will kick off the first leg of her tour in promotion of her forthcoming album Primal Heart at The Paradise in Boston, Massachusetts and we at Love is Pop couldn’t be more excited. Originally, Primal Heart was supposed to come out on the 19th of...

FLYING SOLO: AN INTERVIEW WITH KELE OKEREKE OF BLOC PARTY

Posted Oct 6, 2017

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interview by Michael McCarthy I first became aware of Kele Okereke when I read about Bloc Party, the band he’s fronted for roughly a dozen years now, in the British magazine Q in 2005. Immediately after reading about them, I hunted down their debut album, Silent Alarm, and knew I liked it before...

#songoftheday = MIMOZA H: “WELL OF MELODIES”

Posted Sep 25, 2017

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It's always fulfilling when an artist you thought was brilliant turns around and releases something new a year or two later and they're still just as impressive. In other words, there's nothing worse than saying someone is as refreshing as a cool, sudden rainfall on a 100-degree day...

#songoftheday = Mcbaise – “Paradis Du Cuir”

Posted Sep 20, 2017

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If you took Phoenix, Hot Chip and Passion Pit and chopped them up in a blender then made a gorgeous painting out of them and that painting could play music, Mcbaise is exactly what it would sound like. OK, so that's a bit of a stretch, but those are...

#songoftheday = ADAM JENSEN: “YOU DON’T LOVE ME LIKE BEFORE”

Posted Aug 21, 2017

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Adam Jensen has become a certified Spotify Sensation since we first started posting his songs -- and interviewing him -- here on Love is Pop. His hit "The Mystic" has racked up 1 million streams already while a remix of his debut single "Sandcastles" has over 5 million....

#songoftheday = ELOHIM: “SKINNY LEGS”

Posted May 30, 2017

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Elohim's latest single, "Skinny Legs," might strike you as an abstract, maybe even inaccessible, song the first few times you listen to it. I even wondered if it was too bizarre for me when it first wormed its way inside my ears. That said, I put...

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