indie tracks
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: Stephen Fretwell returns with the beautifully restrained ‘Oval’
It’s been quite a while for Stephen Fretwell. As one of the people who adored his much lauded debut Magpie, and it’s follow up – 2007’s Man on the Roof, I (and I imagine quite a few others) wondered what had happened. Turns out family life, with Fretwell bringing up his two sons in Brighton, …
See: Conchúr White – ‘Vocation Vacation’: keeping one’s online life polished in a late-night tumblin’ tune
OUT OF Armagh with a swingin noir take on songwriting which seems to combine late-night whisky tumbler tunesmithery with, in the case of the single he’s dropping today, a little of that effortless glide you found in the Bunnymen – ladies and gentlemen, introducing Conchúr White. Scroll down to the bottom there and you’ll find …
Track: Laundromat release the track ‘Flat Planet’ ahead of new EP, ‘Red’
Customer advice- get into this Laundromat now before the crowds show up. After two sold out EPs on Brace Yourself (‘Blue’ and ‘Green’), the label has just announced ‘Red’, a third instalment from Brighton musician Toby Hayes (a.k.a the above mentioned Laundromat), available digitally or as an appropriately coloured 7” from 23rd April. If preview …
Track: Travis Shaw – Only Human
After wowing us with his single ‘Refuge’ (see here) the North East troubadour Travis Shaw has shared the video for track ‘Only Human’ taken from his EP ‘Balance’ released 2019. The way this guy packs in the emotion into his music is immediately grabbing. From the picked guitar of the intro to the desperation in …
Track: Lou Main releases the melancholic debut, Orchard
Birmingham born, Bristol based singer-songwriter Lou Main has just released his debut single Orchard, the first of a series of releases he’s got planned for 2021. Of his outlook, Lou says “I make music that brings together hip hop production with indie musicianship and poetic songwriting with influences from Kanye West to The Stone Roses …
Track: Cherym release brilliant new single ‘Kisses On My Cards’
Northern Irish pop-punks Cherym have celebrated signing to Alcopop! Records by releasing a new single, Kisses on my Cards, out right now. The Derry trio released the record just in time for Valentine’s Day, but it was too good of us to ignore. Of the track, vocalist Hannah Richardson says: “‘Kisses On My Cards’ is a …
Rosie Alena & Morgan Simpson (Black Midi) share cover in support of the Music Venue Trust
TWO OF the country’s most talented artists being Rosie Alena and Morgan Simpson of black midi have teamed up and shared a wonderful cover of The Carpenters’ “We’ve Only Just Begun”, In support of the charity, the Music Venue Trust. A song described by the pair as close to their hearts, Rosie Alena’s and Morgan …
Track: Holy Springs – If I Had A Reason
South London trio Holy Springs, have shared a new track in the form of – ‘If I Had A Reason’. Read our review of their EP Camera released last year here An ode to the 80s with the tracks brooding almost mysterious start, with drawn-out chords that grabs hold from the start. The track shimmers …
Track: Juliana Hatfield releases brilliant new single, Mouthful of Blood
Always moving forward, Juliana Hatfield has kept the open ears of her fans full to busting with her releases which veer between the original (Pussycat, Weird) and covers (..sings Olivia Newton-John, …sings the Police). It’s the former with her next collection – Blood, out on May 14th on American Laundromat Records. It’ll be her 19th …