Seattle’s Tomten have been creating glorious baroque pop since their formation in 2010. On their newest album Viva Draconia, released September 28th, they continue to give us a serving of pop perfection, but with added new-wave and psych flavors. Viva Draconia opens with “Balance of Terror”, a title which sounds quite scary, but is actually a beautiful, Beatle-eque composition, heavy on the piano with a chorus evocative of a church choir and featuring some surprising synth sounds throughout its bridge. Songs like “St.Martin’s Summer”, “Celadon Song” and “Gogmagog” have the same pop sensibility, but are all also incredibly well developed tracks with loads going on in them- the use…

Frankie Teardrop Dead’s newest release, All You Need Is Love And Fucking Peace is packed full of enough psychedelic dreamgaze to last you all week long. This is the London-based bands’ second album, and showcases the confidence of a band really coming into their own. All You Need is Love and Fucking Peace opens with “Short Story of The Mourning Sun”, a hazy-folky instrumental, before launching into the darker, post-punk psychedelia of “Joy in Division”, and then moving fluidly into dreamy space psych on “What’s It All About”. [wpdevart_youtube]du5sXuhqJ10[/wpdevart_youtube] Standout tracks include “I Love You (Me Neither)” which has a heavy Brian Jonestown Massacre influence, with its folky, bluesy guitars…