indie tracks
Track: Bat for Lashes – Kids in the dark
The wonderful thing about music I find is the ability to transport you to a time. Whether it was the first time you heard it, back when we all still bought CDs, or how it can transport you back in time with a feeling or a sense that defined an era. Kids in the dark, …
Track: Julien baker – Red Door/Conversation Piece
Two tracks that were previously only available on a Record Store Day limited 7″ have now finally been released onto all good (and probably otherwise) streaming services. Slightly biased here but I can’t help it. I love Julien Baker and she can do no wrong. She has that ability to stop time and grab all …
Track: Bubblegum Lemonade – Heaven With You
Bubblegum Lemonade – Heaven With You EP ‘Heaven With You’ is the second single from Bubblegum Lemonade’s smash new album ‘Desperately Seeking Sunshine’. It is a radio hit featuring a chiming Byrds-like guitar intro, an infectious hi hat, glockenspiel, and backing vocals from Sandra of fellow Scottish band Strawberry Whiplash (another great band worth checking …
Track: Whitney – Giving Up, plus new album news
Chicago-based Whitney will release their sophomore album ‘Forever Turned Around’, on August 30th via Secretly Canadian. On the follow up to their much-beloved debut, 2016’s ‘Light Upon the Lake’, Ehrlich and Kakacek grapple with the anxiety and acceptance that time is limited and navigate questions of mortality, doubt, love, and friendship. Lead single ‘Giving Up’ …
Track: Boy & Bear return with new single ‘Hold Your Nerve’, plus tour news
Boy & Bear set their fanbase abuzz last month after teasing brand new music. Now, the wait is over with the band returning with a triumphant new single, Hold Your Nerve, their first new music since the release of 2015’s Limit of Love. After the most tumultuous period of the band’s lives both personally and …
Track: Night Moves – Recollections
Taken from their forthcoming ‘Can you really find me’, out on June 28th via Domino Records, Night Moves have released a new track, Recollections. It’s a dramatic slice of pop noir, with it’s Godley and Creme sheen scuffed up a bit with some Johnny Marr like guitar playing and a lovely sheen that glistens all …
Track: The Dolly Mops – Where the undead go
Oxford band The Dolly Mops DIY-indie has this unshined, almost scruffiness about it, harking back to those halcyon 80s days when this sort of thing (musically and aesthetically speaking) first appeared. It’s full of frayed at the edges guitar sounds, taking one step back here and there for every two steps forward. Apparently the tale …
Track: Salad – Under the Wrapping Paper
90’s Indie band Salad return with Under The Wrapping Paper the first single from their long awaited new studio album, The Salad Way, set for release on August 30th. Salad stood out from the Brit Pop Scene with a loud quiet loud ethic coupled with the sultry vocals of Marijne van der Vlugt on anthems …
Track: Graham Day & The Gaolers – Just a Little / I’m not the only one
December saw the return, after an eight year lay off, for Graham Day & The Gaolers, when they performed at the Lexington in Islington as part of the Damaged Goods labels 30 year celebrations. It marked a rare trip to the UK for drummer Dan Eletxro and so they decamped to the studio and recorded …
Track: Diesel Park West – Suki / Scared of Time
Growing up as a bored teenager, I was always slightly disappointed that (from the little I knew) only Shawaddywaddy came from the city of my birth, Leicester. Oh, and Englebert Humperdink, who my Mum claimed she once saw in a cafe. That was until I was watching the Chart Show, and suddenly these leather-trousered, Rickenbacker-toting …