indie tracks
Track: Mark Lanegan – Bleed all over
It’s a busy time for Mark Lanegan. His memoir ‘Sing backwards and weep’ is out in May, he’s launched a new web-streaming platform ‘The Vault’ which details basically all of his back catalogue, and his new album ‘Straight songs of Sorrow’ is also out, on May 8th via Heavenly Recordings, From it he’s revealed a …
Track: Holy Boy – Riders on the storm
Timing is everything, and yet it’s completely intangible, even transcendent. So when Holy Boy, aka Helene Alexandra Jæge, released her funeral-version of the Doors hit “Riders on the Storm”, both to give a taste of her upcoming album (to be released this August) and to announce herself among the storm of acts that descends on …
Track: Half Waif – In August
Taken from her new album ‘The Caretaker’, out this Friday (March 27th) via ANTI- Records, In August is the new track from Nandi Rose, aka Half Wait. Of the song, Rose says: “‘In August’ tracks the dissolution of a friendship over the course of a year, throughout every season. There’s a particular kind of sadness to …
See: Waxahatchee reveals new video for ‘Can’t do much’
“It’s meant to be an extremely unsentimental love song, a love song with a strong dose of reality” says Katie Crutchfield (aka Waxahatchee) of ‘Can’t do much’, the latest release from her forthcoming Saint Cloud album, out on March 27th via Merge. She continues “It was written early on in a relationship, where the feelings …
Track: Drab City – Devil Doll
Recently signed to Bella Union, duo Drab City have released a track from the their forthcoming debut album ‘Good Songs for Bad People’, which drops on June 12th. Is a slow burning, stripped back slice of jazz / indie (yeah, really). It has this sort of a sense of Portishead about it, the jazzy chords …
Track: Talk Show – Stress
Talk Show are building on the strong reputation they’ve built through their early singles Fast & Loud and Ankle Deep by releasing their new, debut LP, out on April 27th via Coucil Records. It’s this ear-catching 3 minutes (or just over) of almost gothic-like post punk, all Bunnymen guitars and spoken verses in the same …
Track: Sweet spirit – Behold
Austin six-piece Sweet Spirit, who include amongst their number members of no less than 12 bands, including lauded punks A Giant Dogs, have released a new single, ‘Behold’. It comes on the back of their signing to Merge Records, and the announcement that their third album is to be released later in the year. If …
See: Modern Nature reveal new video/track, ‘Flourish’
“Flourish is like when my part of the world coming to life” says Jack Cooper of Modern Nature when talking about their new track, ”I live on the edge of London between Leytonstone and Epping Forest, so the signs of spring are very apparent round here – flowers, light, people talking in their gardens.” That …
Track: Yakima – Thanks
Following on from the engaging ‘It Helped’, an ode to giving up smoking, Yakima have returned with a brand new single – ‘Thanks’, taken from their debut EP ‘Go Virtually’, out on April 3rd. It’s this wistful, rather lovely slice of alt-rock, with something of the Pavement about it, and sprinkled with a good amount …
Track: Happyness – Seeing Eye Dog
Londoners Happyness have returned with news of their first new music in three years, and album called ‘Floatr’ out on May 1st, and a single ‘Seeing Eye Dog. This is Happyness, but a new (dare we say) improved version. Over the course of just over 7 minutes, the band veer from guitar indie, to sweeping …