indie rock
SEE: Damn Vandals – ‘Into The Light Of Love’: rock ‘n’ roll with the lockdown monkey
LOCKDOWN monkey – now there’s a cool concept. I wonder if he’s a distant, cross-channel of Mr Oizo’s Flat Eric, sold not on deep techno squelch but the eternal blessings of good ol’ scuzzy rawk ‘n’ roll. Damn Vandals, who crawled up and into our heads toting proper sleazy and squealy axe abuse are following …
NEWS: The Wytches Announce New Album ‘Three Mile Ditch’, release video
Peterborough bred rockers The Wytches have announced their third album Three Mile Ditch, which will be released by Cable Code Records on Friday, October 2nd. The collection of ten tracks is bursting at the seams with hard rock screamers, with hooks and riffs so infectious they burrow deep into the brain. The tracklisting announced is as follows: …
Track: L.A. Witch share the heavy grunge of ‘Gen-Z’
Taken from their forthcoming ‘Play With Fire’ album, out on August 21st on Suicide Squeeze, Californian trio L.A. Witch have released their latest single, Genn-Z. Of the track, the bands guitarist and vocalist Sade Sanchez said “‘Gen-Z’ is inspired by a series of articles mentioning the high rates of suicide amongst the Gen-Z due to …
EP: We Were Promised Jetpacks – Out of Interest
Out now is the ‘out of interest’ ep from Indie band We Were Promised Jetpacks. The band hail from Edinburgh, Scotland and their ep is available on various listening platforms, including ITunes, Spotify and Bandcamp.Opener ‘When Getting Lost’ is a spacious and atmospheric start to the ep. The vocals have a desolate beauty to them, …
See: MOY release new video for ‘No Talk’s The Best Chat’
Following of the acclaim his debut track Start Me Up received, Glasgow based New Zealander MOY has released the follow up – No Talk’s The Best Chat, complete with a video – made with 2500 hand drawn sketches the band drew during lockdown to pass the time. The track is this indie rock saunter, with …
Track: Cut Copy – Cold Water
Melbourne synth pop quartet, Cut Copy share their new single, ‘Cold Water’. Taken from the four-piece’s sixth studio album – ‘Freeze, Melt’, dropping on 21st August via The Orchard. Dan Whitford on the track: “After extensive touring on our last album, ‘Cold Water’ was one of the first new songs to appear. I’d moved to Copenhagen and had been listening to …
Album Review: Nadine Shah – Kitchen Sink
Kitchen Sink follows up Nadine Shah’s Mercury Prize nominated 2017 album Holiday Destination which received critical acclaim including AIM Awards ‘Independent Album of the Year’, a #7 ‘Album of the Year’ from BBC 6 Music, #5 from The Quietus and more. Shah has always written important songs. With Holiday Destination she sang about the refugee …
Track: Evening Hymns – Pyrenees
Evening Hymns is the ever-evolving project of musician, composer and producer, Jonas Bonnetta , is today sharing his new single, ‘Pyrenees’ which comes with an official video directed by Monika Kraska. ‘Pyrenees’ is the third song to be released after ‘I Can Only Be Good’ and ‘My Drugs My Dreams’ from the long-awaited new album, Heavy Nights, out June 26 …
Track: Pheonix-style fun from Oslo’s Divest – Coming Around
IF smiley, knowing guitar pop with a bit of bite is your thing, you could do worse than make a little time in your life for up ‘n’ coming Oslo outfit Divest. After a brace of singles in 2019, which picked up support from the Norwegian national broadcaster NRK, “Coming Around” is the first track …
SEE: OK Go release moving Covid-19 inspired track and video – All Together Now
What do synchronised treadmills, zero gravity flights, Rube Goldberg Machines and a car playing instruments in the desert all have in common? Well they are just some of the concepts that Chicago rock band OK Go (now LA-based) have used over the years to showcase their songs and, in doing so, have created their own …