indie tracks
Track: Dream Wife – Temporary
London based trio Dream Wife release their explosive second album So When You Gonna next month and have just released an emotional new track ‘Temporary’ about the often unspoken struggles of miscarrying “It’s about the heartbreak of repeatedly putting your body through the transformation and danger of pregnancy, and it’s about holding space for dreams of creating …
Track: Remo Drive – A Flower And A Weed
Remo Drive hit us with another massively catchy indie rock ballad, ‘A Flower and a Weed’, from their forthcoming album. ‘A Portrait of an Ugly Man’ is out digitally and on vinyl via Epitaph Records on June 26 The two brothers Erik (vocals, guitar) and Stephen (bass) Paulson have created some magic from their parent’s basement in Minnesota and their self-produced and …
TRACK: Fjord boy Kristian Grostad debuts with widescreen ‘Feels Lighter’
KRISTIAN GROSTAD is a fjordgutten – a “fjord boy”. Hailing from Steinkjer on the craggy Norwegian west coast, an eight-hour drive from Oslo, Kristian grew up in a musical household and began writing music when he received a guitar as a gift. A move to Oslo not long afterwards inspired a wave of creativity as …
Track: TIFFY – Don’t wanna talk
TIFFY, aka songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and singer Tiffany Sammy is greasing up to the release of her new 7” single – out on June 19th through Dollhouse Lightning (IF there’s still any of the hyper limited edition of 25 left), and she’s donating 100% of vinyl and digital sales and 50% of cassette sales over the …
Track: Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard – Double Denim Hop
Out on July 10th via Missing Piece Records / Communion) is the debut release, The Non-Stop EP from Welsh quartet Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard. From it they’ve shared a new track, Double Denim Hop, which magnetic frontman Tom Rees describes as being “the first time I felt fully confident as a writer… it set me off …
Track: Sports – Tell you something
Returning from a two year hiatus, Sports – aka Cale Chronister & Christian Theriot are back with a track – Tell You Something, their first new music since their 2018 long player ‘Everyone’s Invited’. Good news is they’re still mixing it up with elements of synth-pop, indie funk and psychedelic rock. Of the track Cale …
TRACK: Karima Francis – Orange Rose
Making a welcome return to the spotlight, the singer-songwriter from Blackpool delivers an atmospheric and elegiac single for the soul, that emerges as her first new material of 2020. Offering wistful rumination on how mental health can send shockwaves through even the most intimate and entwined of relationships, ‘Orange Rose’ sees Karima strike a masterful …
Meet: Scottish singer-songwriter Dylan John Thomas
We were very much taken with Glaswegian singer-songwriter Dylan John Thomas’ recent Lost Without single, and after reading that he’s been taken on tour as support for both Liam Gallagher and Gerry Cinnamon, and becoming the quickest Scottish artist to sell-out his debut show at the revered King Tuts venue, we felt like we needed …
Track: Oracle Sisters – High Moon
It’s not a rarity to hear traces of the cultural past in a band’s music. In fact, the exception makes the rule here. Sometimes, however, it’s quite apparently reached for (which is never a good thing) and other times it flows naturally through the blood of the musicians. I’ve found that the latter is the …
Track: Swansea’s Mojo Jnr make hazy bedroom pop with Miles Away
SWANSEA’S Josh David-Read might just be Cymru music scene’s latest little treasure. The nation that brought us Super Furry Animals, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Cate Le Bon will have a new songster to embrace with the debut track from Josh, who records as Mojo JNR. He said: “My goal is to make great …