Indie track
Premiere: Lazy Daze blows away the cobwebs with the sweet indiepop breeze of ‘Reminiscing’
IT’S ALWAYS an absolute pleasure for us here at Backseat Mafia to be invited to premiere a new artist who brings the quirky thrill to music, has that excitement of the new, appears from behind the curtain with a tune that’s fun and breezy and effortless, combines melody and fun in new shapes. So, obvs …
Track: Dominic Wolf brings a fine indie- electronica wonkiness out to play with ‘Fool’
HAILING from the buzzing East London scene, Dominic Woolf is on a mission to seduce with a kaleidoscopic approach to a hazy leftfield indiepop, as you can hear on his new single, “Fool”, which we’ve got for you below. Beginning in an up-close, confessional US alt.rock, all acoustic guitars and wayward vocal melodies, in which …
Track: Carpet brings the Malkmus instant fuzz anthem dynamic to ‘Terror Tear’
BRINGING the vibe of Malkmus over the ocean to bear on only his second single, Rob Slater, the Leeds musician who’s set up in business as Carpet, has produced a nugget of lo-fi fuzzpop that’s up there with the best of them in “Terror Tear”. Come rock out with us. Rob, by day an engineer …
Track: The Slow Summits – ‘Then Again’: a blast of properly cute C86 indie from Sweden
INDIEPOP KIDS, north and south, east and west: if C86, early Creation, Sarah Records and taking the subway to your suburb raise gladness in your heart, then you need to be listening to Swedish lovelies The Slow Summits. Hailing from the southern city of Linköping, The Slow Summits draw on the vocal, rhythm guitar and …
Track: FEET get all bookish with the sweetly ragged guitars of ‘Library’ ahead of their August EP
NOW WHOLLY ensconced in what they call a ‘hive mind’ situation in North London, and with their new EP, Walking Machine, poised to be set free on a guitar-lovin’ public on August 6th, FEET today release the summery Noo Yoik fuzz melodies of “Library”, which we’ve got for you below. And a one-two-three-four … “”Library …
Track: Ailsa Tully announces an August EP for Dalliance and reveals tour dates; hear the lead single, ‘Greedy’
AILSA TULLY, the rising Welsh singer-songwriter who’s no stranger to these pages, has announced her new EP, Holy Isle, will be out mid-August on Dalliance Recordings, and has dropped the lead single, the complex, impressionistic indie rock of “Greedy”. Take a listen below. Holy Isle is, in essence, a break-up musically diarised with a difference; …
See: Mumble Tide get out in the sticks for the glorious, sleepy wonk-pop of ‘Breakfast’
AWWW man, Bristol’s Mumble Tide, now they’re properly lovely. The wonky guitar pop duo of Gina Leonard and Ryan Rogers, who met when Gina put an advert up on Gumtree looking for a bassist, have just released their new single, “Breakfast”, which is sleepily devil-may-care, unbuttoned shirt and mussed-up hair, combining disarming lyrics and a …
See: Novelty Island invites you to his Mersey archipelago for the baroque piano pop of ‘Listen’
NOVELTY ISLAND, much like Coral Island but not so much Hilbre Island, though that’s weird in its own way, is part of the mythical archipelago of offshore Liverpudlian islands of the musical mind. Castaway under a solitary palm on this particular shore, with a whole Bond-villain musical laboratory accessible through a hidden hatch, is the …
See: Michael Cormier gathers the undead at the karaoke bar for one ‘Last Hurrah’; ringing Americana warmth and limbs everywhere
GUITARS glimmer with a melodic, picked loveliness that can only bring a smile, kinda post-folky; the vocals are a blissed whisper, and an occasional flute circles and glides among sun-kissed slide guitar and trilling synth. The whole thing is hammock-lazy beautiful. But … the zombies? The undead at the forlorn, roadside strip karaoke bar, extremities …
Track: Pearl & The Oysters bring the space-age tropicalia of ‘Treasure Island’ to the summer
SUMMER’S really, really goddam here, and in the most deliciously quirky way, as LA’s French-American psych-popsters Pearl & The Oysters drop the first single from their third album, which will be with us right at the end of the highest season. That single, “Treasure Island” is a delight of angelic vocals, modular whoops and whooshes, …