indie tracks
Track: Jack Cooper – Fat Old Sun, plus European Tour Dates
Who doesn’t like a good Pink Floyd song? Certainly Jack Cooper, also of Ultimate Painting, does because he’s released his own cover of Floyd’s Fat Old Sun. Of the cover he says “I was selling merch at the last show of my US tour and a guy who had bought a record told me that …
See: The Velvet Hands release new video for Only Blame Myself
Garage rock quartet The Velvet Hands have shared the video that accompanies their new single ‘Only Blame Myself’ which is out digitally on January 26th. It’s taken from the bands forthcoming debut album ‘Party’s Over’, which drops digitally and on limited Record Store Day vinyl on April 21st, and on CD and standard vinyl May …
Track: Teenage Wrist – Dweeb
“That song and the record in general in my mind is about growing up and realizing that the world around you isn’t necessarily the one that you thought it would be,” says Teenage Wrist’s guitarist/vocalist Marshall Gallagher of their new track Dweeb, taken from the bands forthcoming debut album. It’s this melancholic but melodic track, …
Track: Tigercub – Faking Laughter
Brighton alt-rockers Tigercub have released the final track from their ‘Evolve or Die’ EP, ahead of their up-scaled London Scala show tonight, featuring Bloody Knees and Calva Louise. Speaking about the inspiration behind the track, front man Jamie Hall said: “Faking laughter is about coping with the absurdity of our post-satire news cycle. We now …
Track: The Longcut – Deathmask
Seven years in the making, Manchester three-piece The Longcut have returned with a new album, Arrows, out on Deltasonic on April 6th. From it they’ve released a new single ‘Deathmask’, and it sees the bands brutalist synth rock return unbowed, as energetic and mesmerising as ever. Of the new track, it appears the words came …
Track: Sunflower Bean – Crisis Fest, plus album news
Sunflower Bean announce their new album and share the life-affirming power-pop of new single ‘Crisis Fest’. Sunflower Bean have announced the release of their second album ‘Twentytwo in Blue’ (released on 23 March via Lucky Number), which will come out when all three members of the New York band will be 22 years old – …
Track: The Orielles – Blue Suitcase (Disco Wrist)
Following on from their fabulous Let Your Dogtooth Grow, Halifax three piece The Orielles have released a new track from their forthcoming debut album, Silver Dollar Moment, which drops on Friday 16th February via the ever brilliant Heavenly Recordings. Titled Blue Suitcase (Disco Wrist), the band say about the track “Blue Suitcase is a track …
Track: Joywave – Spotify Singles
It’s been a few years since Joywave’s ‘How Do You Feel Now?’ fell on to my doormat. Their brand of spacey and ridiculously catchy electro rock has given the band their signature sound. Since their debut, the Rochester boys have been working tirelessly, putting their latest album ‘Content’ out last year, and announcing a whole …
See: Manic Street Preachers release video for new single “International Blue” and album tracklisting
Ahead of their brand new album “Resistance is Futile”, the Welsh evergreen indie heroes Manic Street Preachers have released the euphoric anthem “International Blue”. Neatly sitting alongside both their earlier and later phases, the track has been described as ‘a sister song to “Motorcyle Emptiness”‘. The video was shot in various locations around Nice in …
Track: Sure Sure – Giants
We’re suckers for the sort of track that grabs you in the feels and spews melody all over your ears, so Los Angeles experimental pop quartet Sure Sure’s new single Giants is right up our street. Stripped back to acoustic guitar, tambourine and basic beats, it’s so exuberant and joyous it wouldn’t matter if the …