indie tracks
Track: Manuka Hive – R.E.D
Just four months after first meeting, Yorkshire’s Manuka Hive have begun forging a name for themselves as a live act to watch, with slots supporting rising stars such as The Blinders, Sheafs and Avalanche Party and being tipped by the likes of BBC Introducing and This Feeling. Now, they’ve released their debut recorded offering, “R.E.D”; …
Track: Our Girl – I really like it, plus UK tour dates
If it’s scuzzy but irresistible indie pop your after today, then look no further than ‘I really like it’, the new track from Brighton’s Our Girl, out now via Cannibal Hymns. It was written by frontwoman Soph Nathan, who says of the track “It’s one of our newest songs. I was initially quite nervous to …
Track: Idle Ross – Into the Thick of it
Idle Ross are an exciting new band tearing up the Sheffield music scene after only a few months together and a handful of intimate gigs around the city, but now Ross, Charlie, Spen and Joel are releasing their debut track “Into the Thick of it” and it’s a stormer. Inspired musically and stylistically as a …
Track: Kamikaze Girls – Broke, plus European tour dates
Coming to the end of their run supporting The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Leeds duo Kamikaze Girls have announced a sun of European headline tour dates for May, taking long term friends and label-mates Nervus with them. It’s been a productive year for the band following …
See: Didirri – Formaldehyde, plus tour news
Didirri‘s single ‘Formaldehyde’ was reviewed by me last month where I wrote that the song is a slow-burning fuse that lights up with its intelligent thoughtful lyrics. He’s just released a stunning live performance of the song on video before he embarks on a tour around Australia. The video highlights the strength of Didirri’s unadorned …
Track: Belly – Stars Align, plus UK tour dates
Belly will return with the release of their first full length album in 23 years. The album ‘Dove’ was produced and recorded by band member Tom Gorman (Guitar), alongside longtime friend of the group Paul Q. Kolderie. ‘Dove’ is now available for pre-order and includes instant downloads of “Shiny One” and new track “Stars Align.” It’s …
Track: Tancred – Reviews
Tancred have announced the forthcoming release of their new album, ‘Nightstand’, out on June 1st 2018 on Hand In Hive/Polyvinyl Record Co. ‘Nightstand’ is the follow up to Tancred’s well received 2016 release ‘Out Of The Garden’. The new album is born out of an unexpected revelation from singer/guitarist Jess Abbott, following her transformation into …
Track: Transistor Girl – Weak as I am
Weak As I Am is described as a minimalist sound allowing for Chris Drew’s soft melancholic vocals to ring out fully. Although the instrumentation may be sparse, it is far from minimalist. Inhabiting a world somewhere between Chris Isaak and the world of Twin Peaks, this is a truly gorgeous song in every sense of …
Track: The Go! Team – The Only Thing New is U Finding Out About it, plus summer tour dates
The Go! Team have shared “The Only Thing New Is U Finding Out About It”, a brand new single following on from their acclaimed new album SEMICIRCLE (out now on Memphis Industries). Band leader Ian Parton explains the influences behind the upbeat and mostly instrumental track: “The Only Thing New Is U Finding Out About …
Track: Vital Idles – A Premise, plus album news and tour dates
For a conglomerate of art outsiders and aesthetes, Vital Idles are primitive, whimsically brutal. Sculpting a skeleton from a body already lean, there’s a thrilling minimalism that runs through every beat and strum, a sparseness that feeds Jessica Higgins’s surreal, oblique vocal delivery all the nourishment it needs. Along with the announcement of their debut …