indie tracks
Track: Los Campesinos! – 5 Flucloxacillin
As if we didn’t love indie pop/rockers Los Campesinos! enough, they’ve announced a new album, Sick Scenes, and a new single 5 Flucloxacillin, and who doesn’t love songs named after antibiotic used for treating skin complications and what have you. The song is supposedly a depiction of what life is like for people who fall …
Track: San Fermin – Open
San Fermin, the Brooklyn baroque pop band, are back right after a year on hiatus – a fruitful time for some members of the band that were able to put out their own albums. The comeback took place with the release of their newest single “Open”, taken from their third album Belong, due to Spring …
Track: Be Charlotte – One Drop
With ‘One Drop’ Be Charlotte demonstrate, in one exhilarating track, why they’re on every sane person’s ones to watch list for 2017. The Scottish three-piece comprised of the captivating Charlotte Brimner (programming, guitar, keys, vocals), James Smith (keyboard, bass) and David Calder (drums) ended 2016 on a high performing at the Hogmanay celebrations in Edinburgh …
Track: Desperate Journalist – Resolution
Desperate Journalist release their timely new single ‘Resolution’ and get 2017 off to an explosive start. The North London four-piece have followed up their comeback show at London’s Kamio in November – and the release of brooding track ‘Hollow’ – with their new single ‘Resolution’ released, fittingly, on 1 January (via Fierce Panda Records). Taken …
Track: Ten Fe – Twist Your Arm
Rewind back to the nineties, when bands like Happy Mondays, Charlatans and Stone Roses ruled the roost. Primal Scream released their seminal album ‘Screamadelica’, and a whole new genre was born that was baggy. Many years later, and London Duo Ten Fe are still flying that flag. ‘Twist your arm’ is the lead single from …
Track: Orchid Collective – Courage and talk Exclusively to Backseat Mafia
Orchid Collective return with their latest release entitled ‘Courage’, a 4 track EP briming with their unique sound of rousing alternative folk-influenced rock. Orchid Collective are: David O Shea (lead vocals, guitar), Shea Tohill (lead guitar, vocals), Hugh O’Neill (bass, vocals) and Brian Roony (drums, vocals) Through their own distinct use of vocal harmonies and searing layers …
Track: Tomorrows – ‘Another Life’
Tomorrows are a four-piece indie rock band from Dublin who take their influences from 60’s and 70’s pop, rock, prog, and folk, and combine them with a modern day indie rock sound to create an ‘exciting foray into cosmic pop ecstasy’ Let’s introduce the band: Tomorrows are Conor Deasy (Guitar, Keys, Lead Vocals) Jethro Pickett (Guitar, Keys, Vocals) …
Track: Bayonet – Heart Attack
Bayonet are back with yet another catchy indie pop single and this time “Heart Attack” channels a little bit of the 1975 and early 90s shoegazing indie. Bayonet are a teenage dream band, making music to fall in love with and to. I can imagine many a shy indie couple shuffling along to their upbeat …
New Music: CousteauX – The Innermost Light, plus London live date
If you remember the dark and sensuous pop of Cousteau, then you’ll be rejoicing at the news that the pair have reconvened as CousteauX and have streamed a new track The Innermost Light ahead of a new album, to be released in 2017. In 2001, the world was at Cousteau’s feet. Signed to Island Records …
Track: Clock Opera – Whippoorwill
Clock Opera have produced some truly stirring pieces of indie rock over the 7 years since their forming, including the beautiful “Belongings” and Olympic soundbed “The Lost Buoys”. Hailing from London, Guy, Andy, Che and Nic have experimented with unusual instrumentation and song writing processes, carefully assembling their songs from component pieces to create quirkily …