indie tracks
Track: Slug – No Heavy Petting, plus new album / tour date news
Slug, aka North East native Ian Black has returned with a new album, HiggledyPiggledy, out on April 13th via Memphis Industries. From it he’s released lead single No Heavy Petting, which pokes fun at the sexualisation of music on television, at least from his own standpoint, while the title comes from the Swimming Pool signs …
Track: Big Bliss – Contact / Override
Out today is the new 7″ from Brooklyn post-punks Big Bliss, Contact / Override, on Exit Stencil Recordings. Recorded last Autumn with Jeff Berner at Studio G in Brooklyn while writing their upcoming album, the tracks felt to the band like standalone singles rather than something that fitted in to their vision of the album. …
Track: Cut Worms – Till Tomorrow Goes Away, plus European tour dates
Max Clarke, under the guise of his Cut Worms project, has returned for the first new music since his critically acclaimed EP Alien Sunset dropped last year. Called ‘Till tomorrow goes away’ it’s taken from his forthcoming debut album which will be out on Jagjaguwar later in the year. Like Alien Sunset, Clarke trades in …
See: Buffalo Tom Reveal new video for Roman Cars
Perennial Boston based indie favourites Buffalo Tom are back with a new album, Quiet and Peace, due out on 2nd March via Scrawny/Schoolkid Records. Its their first new collection since 2011’s skins, and marks the band’s first collaboration with producer and fellow Boston alt-rock legend David Minehan, renowned ex-leader of the Neighborhoods. With Roman Cars …
Track/Video: Belle and Sebastian – We Were Beautiful, plus tour news
Underpinned by a more prominent shuffling EDM-style drum track, the eternal Belle and Sebastian are back with a new single and video for a track “We Were Beautiful” in anticipation of a European tour and an album. This is classic Belle and Sebastian: melodic, intelligent and melancholic pop with added trumpet. The accompanying video, shot …
EP: Cakes – Prescription Bugs
From the salubrious, white bread and somewhat anodyne Gold Coast of Queensland Australia comes the very antithesis in the form of Cakes, an indie post punk duo who are about to release an EP, “Prescription Bugs”. This EP is an anarchic thrash of guitars and drums leavened by epic choruses and flashes of unexpected subtlety. …
EP: Ummagma – LCD
I’m a little late to the party on this one but towards the end of last year, Canadian/Ukrainian due Ummagma released EP “LCD”, consisting of two versions of “LCD” (mixed by Dean Garcia from seminal shoegaze band Curve) and additional tracks “Lama” (one mixed by Robyn Guthrie of The Cocteau Twins) and “Back to You” …
Track: Cabbage – Arms of Pleonexia, plus debut album news
Mossley quintet Cabbage have just announced their debut album, called Nihilistic Glamour Shots, will drop on March 30th via Infectious Music, produced by James Skelly and Rich Turvey at Parr Street Studios. It’ll mark the culmination of a frenetic 24 month period which has seen Cabbage release five EPs, 36 singles and play well over …
Track: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Mainland
Inspired by a trip to his grandparent’s birthplace of the Aeolian Islands off Sicily, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever guitarist Tom Russo describes their new single, Mainland’s genesis as “I was reading about a refugee crisis unfolding not far away in the Mediterranean Sea. The song is about longing, disillusionment, privilege and holding on to love …
EP: System Corporation – Apathy is Easy
The endless waves of talent emanating from New Zealand continues unabated with the glorious sounds of System Corporation. System Corporation has within it the genes of the legendary The Datsuns – commencing with Phil Somervell and long standing Datsuns engineer Scott Newth who were later joined by Datsuns’ bandmate Ben Cole on drums, and Andrew …