Indie pop
See: Indie pop supergroup Swansea Sound release new video for Rock N Roll Void
Out on November 19th is the debut – Live at the Rum Puncheon, from indie pop supergroup Swansea Sound, aka Hue Williams alongside Pooh Sticks singing partner Amelia Fletcher (ex-Talulah Gosh, Heavenly). Rob Pursey (also ex-Heavenly) and Ian Button (ex-Death In Vegas) make up the rest of the quartet. Both the band and its equal …
Track: NZ’s Alba Rose presents the sweet indie soul of sophomore single ‘Holding On’: Debut EP ‘Silhouette’ coming 12 Nov
Wellington-based musician Alba Rose has just released her self-produced, sophomore single Holding On – a sweetly reflective indie-soul track, mixed by London-based Jim Macrae (Jordan Rakei, Leifur James, Arjuna Oaks) and mastered by Bravo Bonez at Wellington’s PureSound Studios. This follows the artist’s August release of debut single, the contemporary soul, jazz-edged Eve, and marks …
Premiere: Rural France release new video for the charming indie pop of Hosepipe Ban
Rural France, aka Tom Brown and Rob Fawkes, began life in 2017 shortly after both left London for the greener climes of Wiltshire. They released their first album ‘Two Drink Maximum’ a year later, and followed it with an EP, Damp Spirit. A new album ‘RF’ is out on October 29th via Meritorio Records, and …
PREMIERE: AM Higgins conjures majesty from isolation as she announces her debut album with ‘Anchors’
Back in May, Annie Toth shared ‘Peaks & Plains‘, a teaser track from her then-unannounced debut album; providing vocals and keyboards, she’s the leader of AM Higgins; simultaneously a solo project and, on the record, a trio completed by Jason Toth on drums and Joshua Dumas layering everything with electronics, which you can hear clearly …
Premiere: ioakim unveils exquisite video for the gorgeous single ‘Tongue Tied’
We are very pleased to premiere the new video for the track ‘Tongue Tied’ by Australian artist ioakim ( i – owe – kim ). ‘Tongue Tied’ is a velvet smooth atmospheric track filled with a sense of yearning and regret: bubbling instrumentation and a gently melodic, syncopated pace evoking a late night cityscape vision …
Premiere: Paulina unveils her captivating and emotive new single ‘Parasite’ – Watch the accompanying video
Backseat Mafia are delighted to premiere the very latest track release (plus video) from rising Brisbane-based singer/songwriter Paulina. Following on from her critically praised single Lonely Drives, the artist has returned with signature poise to release her new track Parasite, an ethereal and gently atmospheric pop track produced by artist/producer Toby Hobart. Featuring gorgeously textured …
Track: The Plane Sailors soar high with release of new single ‘Strikeout’
Brisbane indie four-piece The Plane Sailors have spent the last two years hard at work, trying on new sounds, fleshing out new ideas and bringing new creative vision to life, which culminates in the debut of their new single, Strikeout. Together since 2018, the song serves as both an introduction for some and a reintroduction …
Track: Melbourne’s Jacob Fitzgerald opens a bottle of spirited, sparkling pop with ‘Pretty Good For My Mind’.
Jacob Fitzgerald‘s new single ‘Pretty Good For My Mind’ fizzes like a shaken bottle of carbonated pop opened while trampolining, with a quite sprightly bounce and a style of its own. The vocoded backing singing and the slinky sinuous saxophone add a certain frisson to the mix, but it is Fitzgerald’s innate ear for melody …
News: The divine French duo Overland Inn sign to False Peak Records, announce new album ‘Proxima’ and release the shimmering single ‘Les Mauvais Jours’
French duo Overland Inn, purveyors of the sweetest electric dream pop laced with ethereal bubbling textures, have announced their signing to the enigmatic Brisbane label False Peak Records and will be releasing new material soon in the way of an album entitled ‘Proxima’. Overland Inn have no boundaries, physical or aural. They are now based …
Album Review: Lorde’s Solar Power Is A Journey Through Healing
I woke up bleary-eyed on Friday to an equally bleary morning. The sun struggled to shine through natural clouds and unnatural haze, blanketing the earth with a dull, heavy light. New York City was not the best place to be for inhabiting the space of Solar Power, the new album from Lorde. Despite all of …