indie tracks
Track: Secret Shine – For You, plus new album news
Secret Shine’s new release “There is Only Now” is a classic brew of shoegaze and dream pop – elements of Disintegration-era The Cure mixed in with a clearer and more distinct My Bloody Valentine or Lush. It is an album filled with waves of sonic reverb and chorus, with arpeggiated synthesisers interweaving with a more …
Track: Heavy Suns – Hide
Barnsley five piece Heavy Suns take the blueprint laid down (or at least honed) by the Rolling Stones and Lez Zeppelin, and stirred in a healthy dose of the shoeegaze/psych for their new single Hide. It’s has this rawness about it, swathes of guitar noise and this motorik bass sound underneath everything. It also has …
Track: Mellah – Round
Mellah, aka Peckham musician and producer Liam Ramsden is preparing for the release of his debut EP Liminality, out via Lucky Number on May 12. From the EP, he’s released a new track ‘Round’. Of the track, Ramsden says “The song is an attack on the entrenchment of war in the everyday, considering how a …
Track: VITALS – Colour (debut single)
‘Colour’ is the debut single from new Barnsley band VITALS, whom feature members from the recently disbanded Four Authors. The new group pick up where Four Authors left off, bringing their uniquely bright pop/rock sounds to the forefront of local music. The new track opens up with summery dance vibes, before the vocal harmonies settle …
Track: Hajk – Nothing Left to Say
Oslo quintet Hajk caused a stir amongst taste-makers and keen observers with their single Magazine, and ahead of their debut self-titled album, they’re back with a new track, ‘Nothing Left to Say’. On top of it’s indie leanings is a coat of glittering electro-pop, and it weaves its layers intricately around a tale of love …
Track: Wavves – Animal
LA indie boys Wavves have a new album ‘You’re Welcome’ out on May 19th via their own Ghost Ramp label, and they’ve now shared a third slice of the action in the shape of a song, Animal. Zane Lowe got the exclusive on his Beats 1 show, and it’s easy to see why he dropped …
Track: Aimee Mann – Patient Zero, plus album news
Aimee Mann has consistently delivered beautiful and thought provoking since her debut solo album ‘Whatever’. It’s hard to believe that was over twenty years ago, but it’s still a record that keeps popping to the surface again and again in my listening material, and still sounds as fresh as the day it was released. Much …
Track: Wedding – 18
Wedding, essentially (at least at its outset) is the the project of Thomas Craig, formerly of Londoners Charles Howl. A debut EP began to bring some attention their way, and a recent move from Berlin to Manchester has prompted a debut album, and this single taken from it, 18. “’18’ was the first song written …
Track: Diet Cig – Barf Day
There’s something of the c86 about duo Diet Cig that makes you want to instantly wrap your arms around them. In their new track, the delightfully titled Barf Day, singer Alex Luciano sings of missed parties, ice creams and her seeming inability to keep plants alive in her fresh faced but almost fragile way. Equally …
Track: Thunder Dreamer – Capture
On the cusp of releasing their debut album on 6131 records, Thunder Dreamer began as a solo project for Steven Hamilton but has expanded into a four piece. Together they create these rather captivating indie rock songs, often with a large dose of piano at their core, and brushed with a sheen of melancholy. So …