Indie pop
Track: ‘Youth Disaster’ Strikes – Handsome drops new track
Handsome hits new highs with new track ‘Youth Disaster’ off upcoming EP.
EP Review: George Alice releases ‘Growing Pains’ EP
Supremely talented George Alice does not disappoint with new EP ‘Growing Pains’
Track: Perth indie-pop favourites Dulcie return with new, sweetly amped single ‘tell ur friends’: Trio supporting Ocean Alley nationally, announce Lime Cordiale support show and headline date in April
Following some glorious indie-pop offerings in 2021, Perth three-piece Dulcie is riding that momentum into the New Year with newest single tell ur friends. The track, released just ahead of their Australian tour (supporting Ocean Alley from 9 Feb) is infectiously sassy, uplifting, and shows perfectly just how the group have evolved these past few …
Exclusive: The Red, Pinks and Purples record Don’t Come Home Too Soon live in session for Backseat Mafia
We were delighted to have Glenn Donaldson from The Reds, Pinks and Purples join us for a Backseat Mafia Session with this acoustic performance of Don’t Come Home Too Soon. The San Francisco-based performer gives Don’t Come Home Too Soon a new unique atmosphere when stripped back to just guitar and vocals. It’s taken from …
Track: New Zealand’s Ruby Frost will ‘Never Be Your Baby’ – a charming slice of luminescent indie pop.
Cantering along with a vivacious bounce, and with that essential dash of yearning necessary for a good pop song, the new single from New Zealand’s Ruby Frost ‘Never Be Your Baby’, is a sparkling and luminescent track that exudes rays of sunshine despite a more melancholy subject matter. Frost says the track is about: An …
EP: Alba Rose shines a light in the dark with soulful, indie jazz magic of Debut ‘Silhouette’ released today
New Zealand-based musician Alba Rose has just released her much-anticipated, self-produced EP Silhouette – a wonderfully reflective collection of jazz-infused indie tracks. This follows on from two single drops earlier this year; contemporary, jazz-edged debut Eve, as well as the sultry and soulful Holding On, released in October. Silhouette is Alba Rose’s first full body …
PREMIERE: Vancouver’s Gold & Youth get existential on ‘Blush’; long-awaited second album out tomorrow
In 2013, Canadian quartet Gold & Youth released their very good debut album Beyond Wilderness; then they, er, went into the wilderness. For eight years. We genuinely thought they had broken up – this is, thankfully, not the case. Not only are they still a band, but they’ve also got an imminent new record. Trailed …
PREMIERE: AM Higgins extends an invite into the world of her lush debut album ‘Hymning’
Last month, we premiered the beautiful ‘Anchors’, the lead single proper from Chicagoan export Annie Toth’s debut album as AM Higgins – a solo project that’s fleshed out into a full band on said 8-song record, called Hymning (which was signposted earlier in the year by teaser track ‘Peaks & Plains’). Toth is now based …
PREMIERE: San Francisco’s Hot Flash Heat Wave are going through the ‘m o t i o n s’ as they prep new LP
With their last notable body of work arriving two years ago in the form of the Mood Ring EP, San Francisco trio Hot Flash Heat Wave are gearing up for their first full-length in nearly 5 whole years – they released a further teaser track from it called ‘vampires‘ a few weeks ago, and today …
Track: Charlie Clark continues his world domination of jangly indie pop with the glittering ‘Blink Of An Eye’, out through No Big Deal Music, plus news of new material from his band Astrid
Charlie Clark has been lasciviously fluttering his eyelashes at us ahead of his debut album release with a stream of jangly anthemic indie pop gems over the last year (see my reviews for the magnificent tracks ‘Don’t Have A Cow‘, ‘Late Night Drinking‘, ‘No Big Deal‘ and ‘A Bridge To Your Idol‘). While the album …