indie tracks
Track: Drab City – Devil Doll
Recently signed to Bella Union, duo Drab City have released a track from the their forthcoming debut album ‘Good Songs for Bad People’, which drops on June 12th. Is a slow burning, stripped back slice of jazz / indie (yeah, really). It has this sort of a sense of Portishead about it, the jazzy chords …
Track: Talk Show – Stress
Talk Show are building on the strong reputation they’ve built through their early singles Fast & Loud and Ankle Deep by releasing their new, debut LP, out on April 27th via Coucil Records. It’s this ear-catching 3 minutes (or just over) of almost gothic-like post punk, all Bunnymen guitars and spoken verses in the same …
Track: Sweet spirit – Behold
Austin six-piece Sweet Spirit, who include amongst their number members of no less than 12 bands, including lauded punks A Giant Dogs, have released a new single, ‘Behold’. It comes on the back of their signing to Merge Records, and the announcement that their third album is to be released later in the year. If …
See: Modern Nature reveal new video/track, ‘Flourish’
“Flourish is like when my part of the world coming to life” says Jack Cooper of Modern Nature when talking about their new track, ”I live on the edge of London between Leytonstone and Epping Forest, so the signs of spring are very apparent round here – flowers, light, people talking in their gardens.” That …
Track: Yakima – Thanks
Following on from the engaging ‘It Helped’, an ode to giving up smoking, Yakima have returned with a brand new single – ‘Thanks’, taken from their debut EP ‘Go Virtually’, out on April 3rd. It’s this wistful, rather lovely slice of alt-rock, with something of the Pavement about it, and sprinkled with a good amount …
Track: Happyness – Seeing Eye Dog
Londoners Happyness have returned with news of their first new music in three years, and album called ‘Floatr’ out on May 1st, and a single ‘Seeing Eye Dog. This is Happyness, but a new (dare we say) improved version. Over the course of just over 7 minutes, the band veer from guitar indie, to sweeping …
Track: The Revolving Paint Dream – Flowers in the Sky
Out on. 13th March is the latest release in the Optic NerveSevens 2.0 reissue series, and it sees the second ever release of Alan McGee’s seminal Creation Records label – The Revolving Paint Dreams ‘Flowers in the Sky’ get the once over. Formed in 1983 by sometime McGee associate Andrew Innes (he had played guitar …
TRACK: BEACH RIOT – TUNE IN, DROP OUT
Brighton fuzz pop band Beach Riot have signed to one of the coolest record labels out there right now Alcopop! and release new single Tune In, Drop Out. Tune In, Drop Out continues the bands run of infectious riff laden singles following up from Stuck Inside and Robot. Huge scuzzy guitars compete with sweet harmonies from …
See: Mr Ben & The Bens reveal video for Beast in the House
Ahead of the release of their new album, Life Drawing, out on July 10th via the ever brilliant Bella Union, one of our favourite Sheffield bands Mr Ben & the Bens have released a new video for the first single to be taken from the album, Beast In The House. The track, this elegiac three …
TRACK: SALAD – DETAILS
Nineties alternative indie rockers Salad are heading full throttle into their comeback trail with brand new single Details. Last year saw the revitalised band release new album The Salad Way, a record that maintained an off kilter originality first heard on mid 90’s classics such as Drink The Elixir and Motorbike To Heaven. Details is …