Indie
Track: Kindling – Better World
On the verge of their new album, Hush, release on November 10th via 6131 records, Western Massachusetts’ edgy shoegaze five piece Kindling have released a third single from the album, ‘Better World’. Started as the recording project of Stephen Pierce and Gretchen Williams in 2014, the band has built and expanded their sound through a …
Track : Symbion Project , “Bloodthirsty”
Symbion Project led by Seattle’s own electronic craftsman Kasson Crooker releases the single Bloodthirsty on October 20. What a striking, strange title for a down-tempo synthetic single song is this…and dressed with the appropriate “slashed” blood red front cover, I thought I would listen to an EBM manifest! Let’s see, Symbion Project is the brainchild …
Track: Dream Giant – Every Song
Dream Giant aka London based musician and producer Harry Dean, is about to release his debut album, A Different Light on 17th November via Paisley Parade Records. It’s a psychedelic tinged take on classic pop songs a la Beck and The Flaming Lips, written and produced between his colourful, tumbling down, bedroom in London and …
Track: The Wytches – Double World (Sludge Version), plus Winter tour dates
Out right now digitally via the ever brilliant Heavenly Recordings is a brand new track from doom surf/psych outfit The Wytches. Or more specifically, two versions of the same song. About the track, lead singer Kristian explains, “We recorded the track a few months ago but felt it was quite different to the direction we’re …
See: Holy Moly & The Crackers release new video for ‘Let Go’, plus November tour dates
‘Let Go’ is the new single off Holy Moly & The Crackers’ recently release album, Salem. ‘Let Go’. The North East gypsy folk outfit go in heavy on the record with some full on soulful vocals from Ruth Patterson, and its supported by crunchy guitar chords, fiddles, accordians and percussion building the tension and expectation …
See: The Go! Team release new video for Semicircle Song
Ahwad of Brighton indie funk outfit The Go! Teams new album Semicircle, out 19th January via Memphis Industries, they’ve released a new video for the albums first single ‘Semicircle Song’. For the album, the band apparently envisaged envisioned a marching band going rogue and chucking away their sheet music to blast out Northern soul stompers, …
Track: Just Joans – O Caledonia
Taken from the bands long awaited new album, You Might Be Smiling Now… expanded (now a six piece) Scottish indie band the Just Joans have released a new track, O Caledonia. It’s still got the charm, whimsy and innocence you expect from the band, siblings David and Katie, but now its bigger, fatter and packed …
Track: Jim James – I just wasn’t made for these times (Beach Boys cover)
My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James’ politically charged solo album Eternally Even brought him critical recognition on its release in 2016, but he’s stepped back in time in more ways than one with his new record Tribute To 2. It harks back to his 2009 EP of covers, Tribute To, but he’s picked another set …
Album Review: Pale Bird – Ten Things Which Aren’t Love
Pale Bird, aka Martin Austwick, or the artist formerly known as the Sound of the Ladies possesses an instantly identifiable folkish indie sound. Part of this is down to Austwick’s oddly soothing voice, his guitar work, or the feeling of space his production techniques provide between each instrument. It acts as an audible thread connecting …
Track: Tigertown – Come My Way
Behind the wash of synth-led Summer vibes and an impossibly catchy catchy chorus , Australian alt-pop group Tigertown’s ‘Come My Way’ has a more serious message behind it. As the bands Chris Collins explains: “We wrote “Come My Way” last year in Nicaragua with our friend James Flannigan. It’s about helping someone through a time …