Indie
Track: Tyne-James Organ continues to shine with the shimmering, poignant new single ‘London Calling’, and announces tour dates
Tyne-James Organ’s previous single this year, the delightful ‘Sunday Suite’, was a perfect fit – filled with sunshine and melody highlighting Organ’s sparkling vocals (read our review here). The follow up to this is just as terrific. ‘London Calling’ dons a parachute to slow down the descent but nonetheless is an epic delight: a reflective …
Track: Pacific Avenue pour some brilliant sunshine into their new track ‘Easy Love’ and announce Australia wide headline tour
There is a sparkling seventies sunshine feel to the new single by NSW South Coast band Pacific Avenue that emanates pure golden rays. Layered harmonies, arcing guitars and a powerful melody serve to illuminate this track: bolstered by one of those guitar solos that pop and strut around with attitude. Singer Harry O’Brien says of …
Track: The Chills flutter their eyelashes at us with new track ‘World Within Worlds’ ahead of ‘Scatterbrain’ album release
Lifting the veil a little more on the hidden prize of their forthcoming album, ‘Scatterbrain’, the eminently gorgeous The Chills have just allowed another glimpse of the treasures within with another sparkling single ‘World Within Worlds’. ‘Scatterbrain’ is due out on 14 May 2021 out through Fire Records and Flying Nun Records. It goes without saying this is …
Album Review: The Coral release ‘Coral Island’ – a thrilling magical masterpiece that is a testimony to boundless imagination and the joy of creativity
To describe The Coral‘s new album ‘Coral Island’ as an magnum opus is almost too reductive. This double album is an awe-inspiring journey into childhood memories – the magic of the seaside, merry-go-rounds, penny arcades, promenades, the sound of seagulls and the smells of fast food – but it is not something mired in nostalgia …
Exclusive: Lucy Kruger records ‘A Stranger’s Chest’ live in session for Backseat Mafia
-based South African musician Lucy Kruger joined us for a session to perform A Stranger’s Chest from upcoming album Transit Tapes (for women who move furniture around) due to be released 4th June. With beautiful guitar harmonies and a fantastic voice, Kruger delivers an unforgettable performance. On her new album – the follow up to …
Track: LARRY PINK THE HUMAN explores the nature of humanity in this new single, Eleven11_gtr_song
“If the last year has shown us anything it’s that we can live without many things, but to be away from our closest companions is the biggest challenge of all, We wanted to write about the ones that are with us and the ones that are not, and show how much we appreciate them. When …
Album review: Beach Youth – Postcard; a beautifully disengaged debut LP
It might not be the most sensational trend-setting music revolution, but Postcard does represent a welcome addition to the count of heart-warming, easy listening records in contemporary independent pop music. Beach Youth is a young French band, Norman to be specific, and this can be considered their debut LP, after two long EPs.The band has …
See: The Native – ‘In My Mind’: Plymouth’s indie five-piece’s euphoric best yet
PLYMOUTH’S The Native may only be young – their first single, “Chasing Highs”, only came out in August gone, so their recording career is still a few weeks off its first anniversary – but from the first they’ve been unafraid to tackle the big issues in festival-ready, girlfriend on your shoulders, can in each hand, …
See: BENEE releases rich and evocative video for the gorgeous track ‘Happen To Me’
The glorious track ‘Happen to Me’ comes off New Zealander artist BENEE‘s precociously refined debut album ‘Hey u x’ released last year: it is an atmospheric, moody single with Benee’s voice a soothing and yearning presence over the sparse instrumentation. The video has touches of gothic excess and opulence: a rich tapestry of indulgence with …
Track: Allday unveils another atmospheric and dreamy track ‘Stolen Cars’
Allday (the moniker of Tom Gaynor) is proving to be a fine purveyor of melody-laden languid dream pop with the release of his new track ‘Stolen Cars’ ahead of the May release of his delightfully titled album ‘Drinking With My Smoking Friends’. Tales of illicit undertakings never sounded so smooth and melancholic: there is a delicious …