indie-folk
Premiere: Josh Northwood Shines On Pillowy New Single ‘Paradise’
Josh Northwood returns with the expansive and emotive new single ‘Paradise’. Needless to say, we’re very excited to be running the premiere! The Worcester Indie-folk singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer captures an honesty, emotion and personal reflective tone on ‘Paradise’. Keeping the track relatively stripped with intertwining electric guitar lines, immersive reverbs, piano and subtle …
Track: Natalie Holmes Shares Look At Upcoming Album With New Single ‘Floating TV’
Emotive, thoughtful and musically beautiful as ever, Natalie Holmes’ new single ‘Floating TV’ sets the tone for her upcoming album Vitamin Be. Bringing together elements of indie, pop and folk within her unique, intricate sound, ‘Floating TV’ possesses a warming instrumental backdrop of gentle musical textures and subtle moments of experimentation. Layers of piano, fretless …
Track: Jacob Humber Gets Reflective On New Single ‘Jesus at My Dining Room Table’
Nashville based indie-folk artist Jacob Humber returns with the melancholic and reflective new single ‘Jesus at My Dinging Room Table’, a beautiful, hard-hitting track packed with musical beauty and depth. Lyrically covering heavy subjects from racism to religion whilst touching on a sense of self-reflection, Humber’s gentle, emotional vocal delivery adds extra weight to the …
Track/Video: Patrick Watson unveils an exquisite video to welcome his ‘Better In The Shade’ album
Patrick Watson is an extraordinary musician – seven albums in and the Canadian singer-songwriter’s delicate melodic tapestries never wear thin. Following 2019’s ‘Wave’, an album of shimmering majestic orchestral pop balladry, comes the announcement of the follow up on Secret City Records ‘Better In The Shade’, available to the digital universe now and in tangible …
Album Review: Plain Mister Smith – I’m Just Plain Mister Smith
Vancouver based Plain Mister Smith showcases his strikingly unique, spotlessly produced Indie-pop-come-folk sound on his debut album ‘I’m Plain Mister Smith’. Musically complex and yet refreshingly light and simplistic on the surface, the brainchild of Mark Jowett manages to create soundscapes full of intrigue, managing to posses both an uplifting brightness and a reflective, personal …
Rising: We speak to Berlin artist L’aupaire after recent single When I Fall
Once we heard ‘When I Fall’, the recent single from Berlin based Robert Laupert, a small signal of hope written in a difficult period in his life, and wrapped up in this country folk exterior, we knew we needed to take notice of what he had to say, and find a little more out about …
See: Conchúr White’s ‘Dreamers’ tackles that small town yearning for another life in rousing indie-folk
NORTHERN IRISH singer-songwriter Conchúr White has today doubled down on his single drop from early March, the lovely late-night tumble of “Vocation Vacation” with the just-add-water-and-stir absolute anthem, “Dreamers”, the video for which we’ve got below. If you liked the folk-Bunnymen stylings of that last single, you’ll likely fall hard for the widescreen fire …
Track: Chloe Foy – ‘Work Of Art’: vulnerability and the joy of gig-going all expressed in a three-minute folk-rock nugget
Come gather round and hear this latest lovely; it’s a yearning folk-rocker, paced placidly, harmonies lofting with an ethereal glow – and it’s not afraid to kick out the guitars on that anthemic finish either. Chloe drops the single, which is very much about the joy and the communing of going to gigs and the …
Track: Ruby Gilbert sings a modern yet nostalgic musical tale of romance gone wrong on new single ‘No Vacancy’
Since the release of her debut EP Dearly Beloved in 2018, singer Ruby Gilbert has gained growing attention from the music industry with her nostalgic musical style and solid, charismatic vocals. Having received a Queensland Music Award nomination for her debut single Oh Bones, Gilbert has played an array of prominent Australian music festivals including BIGSOUND and …
Exclusive: His His record Winter Journal live in session for Backseat Mafia
Toronto-based musician His His (Aidan Belo) joined us to perform his latest single Winter Journal. After creating the project as an outlet following a move to his family’s hobby farm outside the city, hoping to evoke something rural and honest. Winter Journal is his second single, and to hear it in its original form, follow …