indie tracks
Track: Sex of Insects – Not this song again
Fromed in Russia in 2016, Sex of Insects- aka Anatoly Ylotana (guitar) Alexandra Bartashevich (vocals) and Roman Korablove (Rhythm). have been racking up listens and fans with their recent releases, which have collectively reached 60 thousand plays on Soundcloud. They’ve just released a new track, Not this song again’ and it mixes up these ethereal …
Track: Anna Von Hausswolff – The Truth, The Glow, The Fall
Gothenburg singer-songwriter Anna Von Hausswolff is on the verge of releasing her now album, Dead Magic,, on March 2nd via City Slang. It’s an intense body of work, its five songs extending over 47 minutes and 20 seconds (y’know, roughly), were composed in her hometown in 2016 and recorded the following year in Denmark. The …
Track: Cosmo Sheldrake – Wriggle, plus European tour dates
London singer-songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist Cosmo Sheldrake has released the latest track, Wriggle, to be taken from his much-anticipated debut album, The Much Much How How and I, which drops on Friday 6th April via Transgressive Records. Speaking of the track, Cosmo says “Wriggle is the last song I wrote for the album. It emerged …
Track: Fairhazel – 7×7
Out now on the Communion Singles Club, is the debut single from Fairhazel, aka London-based musical nomad Hugh McDonald, titled 7×7. Growing up in Cape Town, London and Paris, and spending time in the USA attending Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music, might have formed him as a person, but its London where his project …
Track: Ash – Buzzkill
Out on May 10th is the new album, Islands, from the mighty Ash via Infectious Music (a return to the label which released their 1977 and Free all Angels albums) From it, they’ve released a new track – Buzzkill, which features The Undertones’ Damien O’Neill and Mickey Bradley on backing vocals. Speaking about the track, …
Track: Husky Loops – When I Come Home
Hot on the back of their second EP, which dropped last year, London based trio Husky Loops have shared another slice of interesting take on R’n’B/Hip-Hop and 70 Italian Songwriting (their stated influences) while still working broadly within what you would call (for want of a better word). There’s moments of the luscious string sounds, …
Track: The Vaccines release new track “Nightclub” ahead of new album and tour
The Vaccines have released “Nightclub”, a track from their forthcoming album Combat Sports, released on March 30th. It’s an energetic, catchy romp through 80s pop and early 00s guitar music in the band’s usual style. The band have also announced a 9 date UK tour kicking off in Bristol on the 3rd April 2018, and ending on …
Track: High Hazels – Days of No One
If you like your music full of gorgeous vocals, shimmering guitars, plenty of reverb and with a sense of navigating the spaces between night and day, good and bad, and old and new then you’re in luck. Sheffield four-piece – High Hazels – are back with new single ‘Days of No One’, their first with …
Track: Girlpool – Picturesong
Los Angeles Girlpool – Harmony Trividad and Cleo Tucker, have just released a new track, Picturesong, featuring Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes contributing keys, guitars, backing vocals and mixing. Its this slow burner, the girls voices perfectly matched as they lay smooth melodies and harmonies down over gently picked guitars and keyboards, a la Lambchop, before …
Track: Albert Hammond Jr – Muted Beatings, plus new album news
Albert Hammond Jr has revealed his fourth studio album Francis Trouble is to be release on March 9th. It tackles a deeply personal subject – the stillborn death of his twin brother, and the lingering effects that event has had in his life and music. In November of 1979, Hammond Jr’s mother, Claudia, miscarried. Although …