indie funk
Track: Piel break out of LA with the sleek, filmic funk pop of ‘Custodian’
AFTER taking part in one of NPR’s essential Tiny Desk Concerts last week, which’ve hosted pretty much anyone who’s anyone in indie music, Los Angelino quartet Piel have released the elegant, dreamy, whisper of “Custodian”, which rolls forward on choppy funk guitars and finely-honed crescendos. To me it sounds like it could have come from …
Track: Thrillhouse get down and get funky with another brilliant track ‘What Next?’
With an ambition of releasing a single a month this year (did I miss some?), Thrillhouse high step in and get down with their next in line release, ‘What Next’: a funky frenetically paced dance floor filler with some filthy nasty guitar splashes and the archetypal Thrillhouse cool and wry delivery. Arched eyebrows, a knowing …
Track: My Name Is Ian – ‘For Love’; Welsh collective bring the baggy
MY NAME IS IAN, the lo-fi trio outta Cardiff with a fantastic line in song titles (“If I Was A Gentoo Penguin, I’d Find You The Smoothest Pebble”, anyone?) and who self-describe as a “a bipolar, odd rock, anti-folk loser super group” have dropped quite a fiery little dancefloor-friendly number this week, with more than …
Track: Sports reveal new single, The Look
Oklahoma duo Sports, aka childhood friends Cale Chronister and Christian Theriot, are back with a new single, The Look. It’s taken from their forthcoming EP ‘Get a Good Look Pt.1’, out on February 12th, and is a follow up to recent singles “Tell You Something”, “Baby Baby” and “Never Know”. Of the track, vocalist and …
Rising: We meet Spang Sisters; see the vid for the post-modern soul of ‘Eddie Murphy’
AFTER first being seduced by the name (I mean: isn’t Spang Sisters a thing of beauty?), we were further seduced by the musical chops of the said sisters, in actual fact duo Rachid and Jules. Not just those cool Hall & Oates meets Unknown Mortal Orchestra vibes; but also these keenly observed, skewed views of …
TRACK: Hear Tungz’ ‘Somebody To Get Shy With’ ahead of their new EP
BRISTOL-based outfit Tungz have announced their new EP, Why Do Anything?, which is set to be released on October 30th via Heist or Hit. The EP aims to follow the upward trajectory of previous singles “Can’t We Just Be Friends Again” and “Go Out”. Not wanting to rest on their laurels, they have teased the EP with …