Category Archives: review

Young Astronaut – Fawn

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

Very entertaining debut album by Britain’s outfit Young Astronaut – released for free on their website. Ten rather brilliant indie folk’ish kind of songs with the trademark UK-garage feel to it. But really, if any album has artwork like this, … Continue reading →

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Breton – Blanket Rule EP

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

Britain’s Breton released a free EP yesterday entitled Blanket Rule. It features the whooping amount of five ALL NEW songs. Started listening sometime earlier today, and haven’t stopped since – absolutely brilliant. Grab it on their facebook page. Their debut … Continue reading →

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The Obligatory Album-of-the-Year-2011-Post Post

Posted on December 28, 2011 by

2011 is a wrap, album-wise. Time to take a judging step back, and give an estimate of which release has had the most lasting effect on us here at Poule d’Or headquarters. Here is The Top Ten, or actually it’s … Continue reading →

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Summer Heart – My Forever Smile EP

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

The über-amazing Summer Heart shared his latest works today. His new EP My Forever Smile carries four tracks, two old, two new. Come With Me – a track Mr. Heart reportedly wrote, composed and recorded in one single 4-hour-session – … Continue reading →

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Work Drugs – Aurora Lies

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

The impeccable Work Drugs sometimes referred to as “Philadelphia’s premier Bat Mitzvah and Quincenera party band” released their debut LP today. Aurora Lies carries nine highly seductive sugar pop tunes – perfect road trip music, twilight, California, convertible Porsche, etc. Listen to the … Continue reading →

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Toy Camera – Blissful Youth

Posted on September 14, 2011 by

Beautiful music. Just beautiful. Kind of hurts listening to other music after having Toy Camera on repeat.. Toy Camera of course is the child of Canada’s Germany Germany and L.A.sSteffaloo, whose talents are the perfect match really. It’s just wonderful. … Continue reading →

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Okinawa Lifestyle – Underwater

Posted on June 6, 2011 by

Haven’t even remotely featured enough about the production geniuses that are Okinawa Lifestyle. The two lads reside in Georgia, that is the country Georgia, and produce the most brilliant electronic beats. I got a whole lot of mileage out of … Continue reading →

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Dadajugend Polyform – Louis de Marsalle

Posted on May 30, 2011 by

After a couple of EPs in the past years, german electropoppers Dadajugend Polyform have now released their debut LP Louis de Marsalle on Auf Die Plätze Records. While there are a whole lot of bands trying to sound like they are … Continue reading →

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morceau du jour special! : Bravestation – White Wolves

Posted on May 27, 2011 by

Poule d’Or just returned from the good old Kingdom where the entire team of Poule d’Or headquarters saw our old and new favorite band Bravestation play a gig in Manchester. Not only are they the nicest people, they also are … Continue reading →

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Clytem Scanning – Armada

Posted on May 16, 2011 by

Clytem Scanning’s new album Armada has been out for a couple of weeks. Listening to her James-Bond-theme-esque vocals floating around experimental pop music kind of feels like listening to Sleigh Bells – not stylistically, but in a way that either … Continue reading →

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