indie tracks
Track: Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard – Double Denim Hop
Out on July 10th via Missing Piece Records / Communion) is the debut release, The Non-Stop EP from Welsh quartet Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard. From it they’ve shared a new track, Double Denim Hop, which magnetic frontman Tom Rees describes as being “the first time I felt fully confident as a writer… it set me off …
Track: Sports – Tell you something
Returning from a two year hiatus, Sports – aka Cale Chronister & Christian Theriot are back with a track – Tell You Something, their first new music since their 2018 long player ‘Everyone’s Invited’. Good news is they’re still mixing it up with elements of synth-pop, indie funk and psychedelic rock. Of the track Cale …
TRACK: Karima Francis – Orange Rose
Making a welcome return to the spotlight, the singer-songwriter from Blackpool delivers an atmospheric and elegiac single for the soul, that emerges as her first new material of 2020. Offering wistful rumination on how mental health can send shockwaves through even the most intimate and entwined of relationships, ‘Orange Rose’ sees Karima strike a masterful …
Meet: Scottish singer-songwriter Dylan John Thomas
We were very much taken with Glaswegian singer-songwriter Dylan John Thomas’ recent Lost Without single, and after reading that he’s been taken on tour as support for both Liam Gallagher and Gerry Cinnamon, and becoming the quickest Scottish artist to sell-out his debut show at the revered King Tuts venue, we felt like we needed …
Track: Oracle Sisters – High Moon
It’s not a rarity to hear traces of the cultural past in a band’s music. In fact, the exception makes the rule here. Sometimes, however, it’s quite apparently reached for (which is never a good thing) and other times it flows naturally through the blood of the musicians. I’ve found that the latter is the …
Track: Swansea’s Mojo Jnr make hazy bedroom pop with Miles Away
SWANSEA’S Josh David-Read might just be Cymru music scene’s latest little treasure. The nation that brought us Super Furry Animals, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Cate Le Bon will have a new songster to embrace with the debut track from Josh, who records as Mojo JNR. He said: “My goal is to make great …
Track: Pheonix-style fun from Oslo’s Divest – Coming Around
IF smiley, knowing guitar pop with a bit of bite is your thing, you could do worse than make a little time in your life for up ‘n’ coming Oslo outfit Divest. After a brace of singles in 2019, which picked up support from the Norwegian national broadcaster NRK, “Coming Around” is the first track …
Track: Shrimp Eyes release new single Straight Up
Peckham’s Shrimp Eyes are further proof of south east London’s continuing credentials as indie art pop central. Proudly DIY in all they do, the band have been bobbing in and out of the spotlight for a while: gigging hard (pre Corona) around the essential haunts (Sebright Arms, The Waiting Rooms); landing support slots (for Gengahr’s …
Track: The Lovely Eggs – Long Stem Carnations
The zany, genre-fusing organism that is The Lovely Eggs have released Long Stem Carnations on limited-edition orange clear vinyl, alongside a vinyl exclusive B-side: Voyage. With both I am Moron and the single’s extra-terrestrial themed artwork (by frequent collaborator Casey Raymond), plus Long Stem Carnation’s keyboard part; which surges the listener further into the euphoric Eggland, it is no surprise that …
Track: Deh-Yey – Danephesians 4:31
Could new contenders for the two-piece powerhouse crown be emerging from the borderlands? Chester band Deh-Yey (Cash Burns-guitar/vocals and Tom Maude-drums) show their intent to keep on pushing with a second thumping single ‘Danephesians 4:31’. Whereas last year’s release ‘Death and Politics’ was a wild ride through riffs, switches and even skanking, ‘Danephesians 4:31’ goes …