indiepop
SEE: Swansea Sound – ‘I Sold My Soul On eBay’: railing against the royalty rate with pop concept
INDIEPOP with the most resonant of political points for an industry beleaguered by the pandemic and one in which anyway, let’s be frank, artists are being screwed all ends by the dominant digital business ‘models’. Now that kind of indie is a wholly good thing. Step forward Swansea Sound: Amelia Fletcher of Heavenly, Talulah Gosh, …
Track: The Weather Station – Atlantic
Canadian Tamara Lindeman has shared the new single/video from her project The Weather Station. The track ‘Atlantic’ is taken from her forthcoming album, ‘Ignorance’ due out February 5th via Fat Possum. “Trying to capture something of the slipping feeling I think we all feel, the feeling of dread, even in beautiful moments, even when you’re …
Track: Black Nash – Alligator
Fresh out of the military Jody Smith who goes under the name Black Nash has been adjusting to life out of the army and finding himself out of work and stuck at home, Smith decided to record a self titled album. He has shared the first single – ‘Alligator’ via Ramp Local “I was totally …
Track: Boyracer – Harehills Christmas
With 2020 being somewhat of a return to form for northern Indie poppers, Boyracer the band have release a Christmas single – ‘Harehills Christmas’ via Emotional Response Records. Recalling the early 90s when a young Stewart was fresh out of high school, with dreams a plenty, and living in a 25 pound a week terraced …
ALBUM REVIEW: Heavenly – ‘A Bout De Heavenly’: seminal sevens compiled in time for Santa
Rolling down through Heavenly’s career through the prism of the single, you can see what a great band they were at that seemingly most humble, but powerful and demotic of formats, all packed full of the goodness of proper indiepop
EP REVIEW: Quiet Marauder – ‘Tiny Men Parts’: a critique of the male condition in bounce-along indiepop
Tiny Men Parts nails masculine creepiness and ineptitude with insouciance and tons of guitar pop like they used to make
TRACK: Northern Portrait – At Attention
FOR followers of Matinee Recordings and contemporary indie-pop as a whole, this is exciting news. Anyone who has listened to Northern Portrait’s debut album, turning eleven this year (!), will acknowledge it as one of the points of reference for the genre. Criminal Art Lovers is simply a collection of instant classics, such as very …
TRACK: Grizzly Coast invites you to her ‘Party of One’
FOR so many of us, music not only a delight but an escape, a world in which we can live freely and joyously; and this is just as true of the people making it as us fans listening, as Toronto’s Alannah Kavanagh, who records as Grizzly Coast, imparts of her latest single, “End of the …
SEE: The Close Lobsters have still got the guitar shimmer nailed – ‘Godless’
STRAIGHT outta Paisley on the back of the C86 guitar pop wave, Close Lobsters were a little unfortunate to fly under the radar compared to some of their contemporaries. The pristine jangle shimmer of singles such as “ Never Seen Before” and “Going To Heaven To See If It Rains” led to a brace of …