Catshanghai

This is my Rough Trade find of the summer. It is a CD of psychadelic-folk music performed by America’s Espers. The songs have the hypnotic, brooding atmosphere of a soundtrack from a film about sad ghosts. They use all manner of rock, folk and classical instrumentation to build a layer of sound that reminds me [...]

Shanghai has a distinct lack of music shops stocking the latest range of European and American underground CDs. You have to download this music or go without. Shanghai is hardly a backwater, but it was a real boon to get back to Europe and plunder the CD shops in search of undiscovered gems. I found [...]