indie tracks
Track: Frankie Cosmos – Jesse
Out via legendary Sub Pop label on March 30th is Vessels, the new album from NYC quartet Frankie Cosmos. From it, the band have released a single, Jessie, in which bandleader Greta Kline works through feelings of worth, being out of place and trying to be more in touch with herself. The track aches and …
Track: Field Music – Time in Joy
Time in Joy is the lead and second track to be released from Field Music’s 6th album proper, Open Here, which is released on February 2nd on Memphis Industries. Despite by their own admission, with this new album, to be pursuing a less stripped down sound than on its predecessor ‘Commontime’, it’s business as usual …
Track: Lake Jons – Lake Family
Lake Family is the final slice of dream indie pop that Hensinki lo-fi pop trio Lake Jons are sharing before the release of their self-titled debut album, which drops on January 19th (next friday) via AntiFragile Music. The track is this quirky, ever shifting mishmash of lo-fi, folk, electronica and even a touch of psych. …
See: Son Lux reveal new video for track ‘Slowly’
Taken from their forthcoming fifth album ‘Brighter Wounds’, out on February 9th on City Slang, Son Lux have shared a second track called ‘Slowly’. It’s a delicate, slightly off-kilter track where synths and drums seems to move in different orbits, and Ryan Lott’s feathery, beautiful but fragile vocal seems to half draw things together but …
Track: Amber Bugs – David Dimbleby
Noisy London three piece Amber had a motto upon entering the recording studio. “If it can’t be done live, it can’t be done”. It was from this motto that their latest single ‘David Dimbleby’ was born. As lead singer Ben Kelly explains: “There’s only three of us and we want to sound not just big, …
Track: Franz Ferdinand – ‘Feel The Love Go’
Franz Ferdinand take us dancing into 2018 with synth-driven new single ‘Feel The Love Go’. It’s been a busy few days for Franz Ferdinand. If outperforming politicians on the Andrew Marr show on Sunday – when they appeared as the musical guests – wasn’t enough, they have now shared the latest track to be taken …
Track: Ezra Furman – Suck the blood from my wound, plus UK tour dates
His new album ‘Transangelic Exodus’ is still a month away from its 9th February release on Bella Union, and already Ezra Furman has released a couple of singles from it in the shape of ‘Driving Down To L.A.’ and ‘Love You So Bad’. Add to that a third now with ‘Suck the blood from my …
Track: Superchunk – Erasure, plus new album news and UK/European tour dates
Out on February 16th on the ever brilliant Merge Records, What a time to be alive is the new album from legendary alt rockers Superchunk. It features a host of guest backing vocalists including Sabrina Ellis (A Giant Dog, Sweet Spirit), Skylar Gudasz, and David Bazan “Part of that was wanting a feeling of community,” …
Track: Kaves – 27
Norwich alt rockers Kaves have just released their debut single ’27’, an infectious slice of indie rock, which the band claim (rightly so) has a twist of Killers esque disco. It shuffles through at the beginning with this Monkeys like guitar following the vocal around. It soon builds up though, and if you can keep …
Track: Mélissa Laveaux – Nan Fon Bwa
Inspired by a trip to her parents to her parents homeland Haiti, Nan Fon Bwa is a new song taken from Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist Mélissa Laveaux. It comes from a digital EP which drops on 2nd February and is about celebration and is a reworking of Frantz Casséus’ original composition. The EP is to …