indie tracks
Track: Frank Moyo – Friend of mine
“I want people to be able to imagine they are on a beach in Italy when listening to my music,” says Canadian-Italian singer Frank Moyo. But while one track might take you to the beach, “another may take you into a car going 180 miles per hour.” New single Friend of Mine frankly does neither, …
Track: Real Estate – The Main Thing
Ahead of Fridays album release from Real Estate of their new album ‘The Main Thing’ vis Domino Records, the band have released the title track as the second glimpse of what’s on offer amongst its thirteen tracks, Singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter Martin Courtney explains: “‘The Main Thing’ is my attempt at writing an inspirational anthem …
Track: Nick Byrne – Houses
Inspired by a trip to Liverpool where he saw houses and streets falling into disrepair, Houses is the new single from singer-songwriter Nick Byrne. The track itself is a little underplayed gem of indie folk – hushed vocals, fingerpicked guitars and this insistent but low key little synth figure that gives way to the electric …
EP: Cate Le Bon & Group Listening – Here it comes again
Following up on the success of her 2019 Mercury Prize nominated album Reward, Cate Le Bon alongside ambient duo Group Listening (aka fellow Creative souls Sweet Baboo and Paul Jones) have reimagined five tracks from Reward for an EP, Here it Comes Again, out now via Mexican Summer on 12” vinyl and digitally. Of the …
TRACK: MARK LANEGAN – SKELETON KEY
The Lanegan brand has always stood for quality for me and the man is back and still delivering. Skeleton Key is the first single from his new solo album – Straight Songs Of Sorrow due 8th May. Just over a week from the release of his memoir – Sing Backwards and Weep on 28th April. Commenting …
Track: Even as we speak – Blue Suburban Skies
Out right now as part of the brilliant Optic Nerve Sevens 2.0 reissue series is this rather lovely slice of jangly indie pop from Australia’s Even as we Speak. After releasing a run of singles in their native Australia on labels such as Phantom and Big Home productions – the latter providing a home for …
Track: Bartelby Delicate – From Top To Toe
Luxembourg singer-songwriter Bartlelby Delicate (not his real name we assume, although if it is wouldn’t that be something) has just released a new single, From Top to Toe, available now on all your usual streaming platforms. After meeting German producer Taison (Lali Puna, Portmanteau) after travelling 1500km to play a show in Munich in which …
Track: The Primitives – Thru The Flowers
The Primitives were/are much more than just Crash, the song that defines them and remains an essential part of any (well, the ones I went to, anyway) indie disco from its 1988 release onward. Optic Nerve records, as part of its Optic Sevens 2.0 reissue series, are reissuing the bands debut release Thru The Flowers, …
Track: Nite Fields – Not your time, plus album news
A lot has changed since the release of Nite Fields 2015 debut album Depersonalisation album, principally songwriter and protagonist Danny Venzin trading in Brisbane, Australia for Moscow, Russia and making Nite Fields less of a band and more of a solo project. The result is a new album ‘A Voyeur Makes No Mark’, digitally and …
Track: BOB re-release Convenience in support of their final tour dates
All good things must come to an end, and largely unheralded but none the less brilliant 80s/90s indie merchants BOB have decided to end their reemergence with a flurry of live dates in November, and with a reissue of their Peel approved classic ‘Convenience’. Released as part of the Optic Sevens 2.0 reissue series via …