Sean OHagan

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums from Woods, The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess, Badly Drawn Boy, Hefner’s Darren Hayman, and Marker Starling (featuring members of High Llamas & Stereolab).

Listen to the gorgeous “Take Me Home (Part 2)” featuring Will Oldham.

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new records from Anna Meredith, Black Marble, Sean O’Hagan (High Llamas), and Mikal Cronin, plus S.F. twee-punks The Gonks.

Listen to new songs by DaBaby, Drahla, Sean O’Hagan (High Llamas), Dropdead, Nervus/Milk Teeth, A Giant Dog (Arcade Fire cover), Say Sue Me, Blue Hawaii, Hubert Lenoir/Kirin J. Callinan, and more.

This week: reviews of new albums from Belle & Sebastian, Metronomy, Pernice Brothers and Gruff Rhys, plus crucial reissues from Stereolab and Super Furry Animals.

Our August 2019 playlist includes songs by Lana Del Rey, Big Thief, Tool, Pusha T, Ty Segall, The 1975, Ride, Joan Shelley, New Pornographers, Sleater-Kinney, Boris, Rapsody, Tyler Childers, Kim Gordon and more.

This week: reviews of new albums from Ride, Oh Sees, Versus and Dry Cleaning, plus a new Radio Dept reissue and The High Lamas’ Sean O’Hagan goes solo.

Domenico Lancelotti’s new album for Luaka Bob was co-produced by The High Llamas’ Sean O’Hagan and is out now.

Irish group Microdisney were only together for a few years in the mid-1980s, but for a time were critical darlings with their mix of biting lyrics (courtesy Cathal Coughlan) and smooth, shimmering music (via Sean O’Hagan) and released a few cult classic records, including their 1983 debut Everything’s Fantastic and 1985’s The Clock Comes Down the Stairs which reached #1 on the UK indie charts. When the band split up, Coughlan formed The Fatima Mansions (who scored a few UK hits in the early ’90s) while O’Hagan formed the great High Llamas and also played in Stereolab as well…

Laura Cantrell has teamed with The Charlatans for a new 7″ being released in UK for Record Store Day 2015. It’s a hybrid cover / answer song to The Charlatans’ “Emile” which is on thier new album, Modern Nature…