Alternative Friday

Q & A – Sunnbrella

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November 16, 2022

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From 2020’s It’s Cool to this year’s Fever Dream, I’ve loved the warm & contagious “beat-driven melancholy” made by Prague born, and now London based artist and producer David Zbirka, aka Sunnbrella. It’s more than just me tuning in too, as the 30k streams a month on Spotify shows he’s gaining fans everywhere. He has just released his latest track, A Week Or So, and to accompany it, he’s dared to face a Q&A grilling. So read on to find out more about the artist himself, his music creation and production, and whether he can moonwalk.
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Mixtape 22 – #6

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November 6, 2022

It’s always a challenge to trim the Mixtape longlist down to the ten chosen tracks, and it was a tougher task than usual to come to this selection, so dig in and enjoy an rousing array of art-pop, punk rock, alternative & indie, plus some dancefloor trance.

bigjimcambo · The Alternative Friday Mixtape 22 – #6

Plastic Mermaids – Elastic Time

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September 23, 2022

Ahead of the release of their second album It’s Not Comfortable To Grow, on Sep 30th, the stunning Isle of Wight band Plastic Mermaids have released Elastic Time, a poignant track which highlights how atmospheric their artistic and avant-garde brand of electronic music is.

Having seen them perform numerous times, I can also vouch that their live shows are mesmerising, so grab your skateboard, check this new track & video, their excellent debut album Suddenly Everyone Explodes, and then make a date to hear the follow up and to see them live! You can also read a little more about them in this Emerging article.

I love the loose elastic time
Once we’ve dismissed the datum lines
Your brain’s not dead, it’s just set free
We’ll take this ride religiously, every night…

Mixtape 22 – #5

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September 5, 2022

There’s a fabulous array of genres on display in this latest mixtape, from art-pop and cinematic rock to RnB & jazz-funk, via the usual sprinkling of indie & alternative. All come from impressive emerging and under-the-radar artists, so dig in, explore, and I hope you find a few new gems for your ears…

bigjimcambo · The Alternative Friday Mixtape 22 – #5

School’s Out (21/22)

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July 27, 2022

The Fresh on the Net ‘school year’ has come to an end, and we’re now on our summer break, but we’ve had an incredible array of impressive music uploaded to us over the past 11 months, and so from those thousands of tracks I’ve compiled another School’s Out playlist with 10 of my favourites.

The long list was exactly that, so it wasn’t easy to whittle it down to these ten tracks, which also highlight the range of genres that are uploaded to us on a weekly basis. So, dig in and enjoy a range of sounds, from indie-rock to dream-pop, jazz-electronica to alternative-folk, and more. Enjoy…

bigjimcambo · My FOTN 21/22

Mixtape 22 – #4

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July 4, 2022

The final Mixtape before the summer break, both here and at Fresh on the Net, allows us to wander through another eclectic array of wonderful songs from new and emerging talent. In this selection we take in some alternative & indie, RnB & soul, jazz & blues, cinematic post-rock, and more. I love ’em all, so I hope you do too. Enjoy…

bigjimcambo · The Alternative Friday Mixtape 22 – #4

Q & A – Lostboy

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May 25, 2022

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Taking their name from the 1980’s film The Lost Boys, this Sheffield 4-piece are comprised of Max Clutterbuck (singer/songwriter), Jack Berry (lead guitar), Henry Robinson (bass) and Ethan Reeves (drums). The band first appeared in my Evolving Spotify playlist in July last year with the song Charlie, which was taken from their debut EP Bad News, and their 5-track follow up, Love Among Angry People, has just been released, which is crammed full of fabulously infectious indie tunes. So read on, as we chat to the band’s founder & songwriter Max Clutterbuck about the EP, being annoying, Freddie Mercury’s driving, and doing the splits!

Mixtape 22 – #3

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April 29, 2022

As spring heads into summer, there has been no let up in the quality of new music releases from under-the-radar and independent artists. So here’s the latest mixtape with 10 of my recent favourites, which take us from indie rock to psychedelic soul, and more. Enjoy…

bigjimcambo · The Alternative Friday Mixtape 22 – #3

Emerging… Enjoyable Listens

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March 25, 2022

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I made a suit out of sandpaper, & walked through a carwash…

One of Enjoyable Listens’ taglines is “music to recede the hairline”, but I’d add “music to make you smile” too. This duo, fronted by Luke Duffett (above), have been making music and playing live for a few years now, but first came to my attention in 2020, with the releases of the tracks That’s Where My Shoes Were and The Key Of Innocence, which highlighted his impressive baritone vocal & baroque pop style, which combine perfectly with his fabulously witty lyrics. Continue reading

Mixtape 22 – #2

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March 4, 2022

The world might be going into meltdown again, but thankfully we’ve still got some inspirational musicians to bring a smile to our faces, and this latest Mixtape certainly comes with my stamp of approval, so I hope you enjoy it too…

bigjimcambo · The Alternative Friday Mixtape 22 – #2

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