indie tracks
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 …
Track: Xylaroo returns with new single, Yesterdays
For those who were charmed by their 2016 album Sweetooth, Xylaroo’s recent announcement of a new single created a certain frisson of excitement, as the ever likeable Holly and Coco Chant have not released much in the way of new material for far too long. The hugely enjoyable “Yesterdays” sees Xylaroo move on from the …
Track: Rat Boy – Truth of the Youth
Rat Boy, aka 23-year old singer-songwriter Jordan Cardy, is back with a new track ‘Truth of the youth’, taken from his upcoming second album, more details of which are expected shortly. It’s the usual thoughtful, attitude ridden Rat Boy affair with his lyrical social commentary and insightful story telling to the fore – “We’re the …
EP Review: Why Sun – Frugte
Copenhagen trio why sun describe their sound as ‘sleepy noise’. It’s an interesting attempt to coin a new sub-genre, but I can hear little going on here besides straight up dream pop. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course. Within their new EP ‘Frugte”s opening moments, it’s clear that the band’s timing of …
EP: The Cosmics – The Cosmics
Out right now is the new self-titled debut EP from Birmingham scuzz pop band The Comics, collecting six of the tracks the band have been playing live and recording them with Test Icicles’ Rory Attwell whose production credits include the likes of Palma Violets, The Vaccines, Yuck, Mazes and Male Bonding among many other up-and-coming …