indie tracks
Track: Household Dogs – Ain’t No Heaven
Leeds post-punks Household Dogs are back with their first new music of the year in the shape of a single, ‘Ain’t no Heaven’. It’s a gorgeous slice of slowcore indie, somewhere between Bill Ryder-Jones at his most intimate and The Saxophones / Cigarettes after Sex sort of way. It has this hushed, close atmosphere about …
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, …
Track: Boy Azooga cover Jim Sullivan’s U.F.O.
While busy writing the follow up to 2018’s 1,2 Kung Fu!, Boy Azooga have still found time to release a stand alone single version of cult U.S. singer -songwriter Jim Sullivan’s ‘U.F.O.’. Of the track, the bands Davey Newington says, “I was introduced to Jim Sullivan’s U.F.O last year by Tom Friend in Friendly Records. …
News: Ty Segall & Mikel Cronin to re-release ‘Pop Song’ 7”
Two of the hardest working men in garage rock / psych, Ty Segall and Mikel Cronin, are to have one of their long out of date 7” records – ‘Pop Song’ b/w/ ’So I went to beach, melody’ and ‘Kit Carson’, re-released on Italy’s Goodbye Boozy imprint. All three tracks on the EP are short, …
Track: The Hotrats (Gaz Coombes / Danny Goffey) – Milkshake
The Hotrats, Supergrass’ Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey, released their Nigel Godrich-produced covers album ‘Turn Ons’ this year, and in anticipation of a new 3CD/DVD box set 10th anniversary edition, out on June 19th, the band jumped in the studio and recorded a version of Kelis’ classic Milkshake. Gaz Coombes explains: “The Hotrats was all about …
Track: Gateway Drugs – Wait (Medication)
Gateway Drugs are back with the follow up to their 2015 LP ‘Magick Spells (Dine Alone) with a new record ‘PSA’. From it they’ve shared a new track Wait (Medication), which the band say is about “Falling in love with madness. When sustenance is stolen and your vice becomes your friend, your lover. Romanticization of …
Track: Katie Von Scheicher – Nowhere
Ahead of her album Consumation, out via Full Time Hobby on May 22nd, Katie Von Scheicher has released a new single, Nowhere following on from previous insight in the album ‘Caged Sleep’. Katie herself says of the track “‘Nowhere’ is about the close and tight feeling of being alone. It can be a hard spell …
Track: Deerhoof – Future Teenage Cave Artists
Deerhoof have announced their new album is to be released via Joyful Noise on May 29th, and from it the band have shared the title track. Future Teenage Cave Artists. As they have for much of not all of their quarter of a century existence, Deerhoof take elements of rock and pop as we know …
See: VALA – Say you want it (that way)
Manchester indie quartet VALA have released the follow up to recent singles Want Your Love and Summer Air with a new track, Say you want It (that way). Of the track, the band say “We recorded the track entirely ourselves in various kitchens, spare rooms and living rooms and it was mixed in that kitchen …
Track: Lavinia Blackwall – John’s Gone
Lavinia Blackwall, former lead singer of Glasgow psych-folk band Trembling Bells, has announced her debut solo album Muggington Lane Endisout on May 1st, and from it she’s released A new track, John’s Gone. Frankly, John’s Gone could be one of our favourite songs of the year. And it’s only March. It has this air of …