indie tracks
Track: The Van T’s – Control
The Van T’s get set to dominate the airwaves again with powerful new single ‘Control’. ‘Control’ (out now via Big Indie Records and listen below), is another sucker punch of a single from The Van T’s. The Glasgow quartet – Chloe Van Thompson (vocals, guitar), Hannah Van Thompson (vocals, guitar), Joanne Forbes (bass) and Shaun …
Track: Skinny Pelembe – Dreaming Is Dead Now, plus album news.
Taken from his forthcoming album on the ever brilliant Brownswood Recordings label, Doncaster artist Skinny Pelembe gets all un-Doncaster on us with his new sun soaked track and the title track from his debut album, ‘Dreaming is Dead now’. Like his other work, it takes from a patchwork of influences, from Alice Coltrane to My …
Track: Okaywill – Pretend
South Carolina singer-songwriter Okaywill is about to release his debut EP of charm fulled bedroom pop out 14 June on Majestic Casual Records. From it he,s streaming the track Pretend. Of the track, okaywill says ‘Pretend is an alternate reality for me. It’s what could’ve happened to me but didn’t: My girlfriend had a relationship with me …
Track: Rev Magnetic – Yonder (Là-haut), plus album news
Rock Action Records are proud to release the debut album from Scottish quartet Rev Magnetic, who include in their number Mogwai’s Luke Sutherland. Combining elements of R&B, shoegaze and post rock into their singular, blisfully spacial dream pop. ‘Versus Universe’ reflects a plethora of transformative sound references ranging from My Bloody Valentine to Teebs, Hawkwind to ABBA …
Track: The Cosmics – Eyes
Birmingham scuzz/garage rock upstarts The Cosmics have heralded the release of their debut vinyl EP, due out on June 13th, with a single, Eyes. Think that sort of echoey hollow 60s sounding production, over this track that buzzes between swathes of buzzsaw, shoegaze guitars and these eerie rockabilly riffs. Over the top its got a …
Track: BEAK> – Life Goes On
Inspired apparently by a recent trip to Mexico City for a festival, Life Goes On is the new track from BEAK> taken from what we are told is ‘a forthcoming EP’. Evidently the band were rudely awoken by the screams of a young girl, which turned out to be a recording used by scrap-collecting carts …
Track: The Dream Syndicate – The Way In, plus tour news
The new single from The Dream Syndicate, ‘The Way In’, is out now. Fresh off a US tour with Mott The Hoople ’74, The Dream Syndicate have shared the new single taken from their forthcoming album ‘These Times’. “It’s the leadoff track, kind of a Rosetta Stone, decoder ring, instruction manual to light the way,” Lead singer and …
Track: Barrie – Geology
Ahead of thw release of te=geur debut album ‘Happy to be here’, out next Friday (May 3rd) via Winspear, Brooklyn five piece Barrie have released a new single ‘Geology’. Of the track, he band’s frontwoman Barrie Lindsay commented: “I wrote this song in 2015, a few months after I bought my first guitar. I was listening …
EP: Kúlu – Quiescence
Celebration Records are about to release the debut EP from Danish band Kúlu, titled Quienscence. The band are not complete newcomers though, having their names littered through the great and the good of Danish indie rock – Asger Techau (Asger Techau, Kashmir), Daniel Buchwald (Arbirk, Deerborn, Danger of Men), Dennis Winterskov (Ave, Deerborn) og Søren …
Track: Simon Bonney – A sweeter kind of pain
Taken from his forthcoming compilation album Past, Present, Future, out May 3rd on Mute Records, former Crime and the City Solution frontman Simon Bonney has shared a previously unreleased track, A Sweeter Kind of Pain’. About the track, Simon explains: “A Sweeter Kind of Pain is about the loved one you will always be with, …