Indie pop
Album Review: Impulsive Hearts – Cry All The Time
‘Cry All The Time’, the new album from Chicago band romantically named Impulsive Hearts is an instantly adorable release that captures an indie low fi dynamic adorned by brilliantly exotic instrumental flourishes. The album is exemplified by singer Danielle Sines’s gorgeous expressive voice – loaded with yearning and melancholia, melodic and evocative that pours over …
Track: Close Lobsters – Godless
Out on April 10th is the latest single from long standing indie pop band Close Lobsters, via Last Night from Glasgow Records. It’s the second single to be taken from their recent Post Neo Anti album. As has been the case throughout the Glasgow bands history (they formed way back in 1983), they make bittersweet, …
See: Warm Digits reveal new video for Shake the Wheels of feat. The Orielles
Taken from their album Flight of Ideas, out on April 10th via Memphis Industries, Newcastle’s Warm Digits, aka Steve Jefferies and Andrew Hodson, have revealed a new video for ‘Shake the Wheels Off’, the collaboration on the album with Halifax indie darlings The Orielles. The Band say of Shake the Wheels off “The song is …
See: Devon Williams releases new video for ‘In Babylon’
A long period of dialogue with his own thoughts, which in turn led to prodding and tweaking at the material he had produced, mean that it’s been six years since Devon Williams released an album. With the help of Dave Carswell [best known for his work with Destroyer] he’s back though, releasing ‘A tear in …
Track: Requin – ‘Rules That Won’t Be Broken’
Brisbane has always had a reputation for producing quirky ground-breaking indie music – think of The Go-Betweens and The Saints for starters or contemporaries like The Goon Sax and Elder. Requin, newly signed to 4000 Records (a mark of quality right there) is such a band. Their new single ‘Rules That Won’t Be Broken’ is …
Track: The Proper Ornaments – Purple Hearts plus album news
The Proper Ornaments are an unashamedly guitar-driven band and the low-fi single ‘Purple Hearts’ is an absolute delight: a melancholic ramble infused with a sleepy bohemian rhythmic quality: There’s a sparseness and a majesty in this song – simple yet loaded with feeling. The song is off The Proper Ornament’s forthcoming album ‘Mission Bells’ due …
Track: Eilish Gilligan – I Just Want To Look At You
Melburnian singer/songwriter Eilish Gilligan continues to make a significant splash on the Australian indie music scene with her haunting brand of synth pop. We have been highly impressed by her output (see our earlier review of S.M.F.Y.) and her new single ‘I Just Want To Look At You’ is gorgeously produced pure dream pop. Gilligan’s …
Track: King No-One: Not Willing to Sacrifice My Life
Hailing from York, King No-One is part of the iconic Scruff of the Neck team which is an instant indication of quality. And their new song ‘Not Willing to Sacrifice My Life’ is an extraordinarily mature and well executed indie stomper filled with poise and swagger. A recurring insistent backing chorus, a thumping rhythm section …
EP: Margot – Margotzeko
The debut EP from South London’s Margot is a breathtaking, mesmerising and epic release. There is a sound of The Smiths and Gene updated for the new era – modern themes with a precious genetic code of guitar-driven indie pop. The first track, the single ‘Man Love’, sets the tone: jangling, crisp, reverb-soaked guitars that …
Track: Even As We Speak – Blue Suburban Skies plus Tour News
Even As We Speak are a Sydney band that formed in the mid-eighties and, after gaining a following in the Australian indie scene, eventually gained the attention of the legendary John Peel on BBC Radio 1 and airplay for their single ‘Goes So Slow’. This resulted in their signing by the iconic UK Sarah Records …