indie tracks
EP: TC&I – Great Aspirations
As the conveyor belt of life moves inexorably closer to the edge, it is only natural for one to reflect on one’s impact on the world and whether one has bequeathed anything lasting and meaningful to world. These heavy and sobering thoughts seem to imbue the new EP, “Great Aspirations” from TC&I, the collaboration between …
Track: The Sea and Cake – Any Day
Legendary Chicago quartet The Sea and Cake are to return with a new album, their 12th, on May 11th. Titled Any Day, its out on the ever brilliant Thrill Jockey label, and sees the band return to their roots, delivering an album of beautiful, elegant and intimate pop songs. To that end, the band were …
See: Glen Hansard reveals new video for Roll on Slow, plus European Tour Dates
Sometime Frames and Swell Seasons man Glen Hansard has returned with a new album, Between Two Shores, which dropped last Friday (January 19th) on Anti-. From it he’s revealed a new video for the albums opening track ‘Roll on Slow’. It’s a mixup of folk rock and brass heavy soul, akin in a way to …
Track: Great Lakes – End of an error
Veteran Athens, GA indie rockers Great Lakes have resurfaced once again to release their 6th album. Singer-songwriter Ben Crum has been joined by drummer Kevin Shea, vocalist Suzanne Nienaber, keyboardist Joe McGinty, guitarist Kenny Wachtel, bassist David Lerner, multi-instrumentalist David Gould, and pedal steel player Phil Sterk – the same line up that recorded career …
Track: The Maple State – Something in the water
Manchester’s The Maple State are extremely pleased to reveal details of their long-awaited new album The Things I Heard At The Party, which is set for release on 23rd March 2018 via Far Out Records. Ahead of the release, the band have revealed a new single ‘Something in the water’. It has a tinge of …
Track: Haus – Shameless
Tottenham five piece Haus have returned with a new single, Shameless, produced by Everything Everything’s Alex Robertshaw and mixed by Duncan Mills (Peace, The Vaccines, Erol Alkan). It flits between this anthemic indie and electronic cut ups with buzzing effects and synth lines. Of the track, frontman Ashley Mulimba says Speaking about the track frontman …
Track: Gengahr – Before Sunrise
Gengahr shine blissfully brightly on ‘Before Sunrise’ – the next single to be taken from their highly-anticipated second album ‘Where Wildness Grows’. The North London four-piece – Felix Bushe (vocals/guitar), John Victor (guitar), Danny Ward (drums) & Hugh Schulte (bass) – have shared another exciting single from new album ‘Where Wildness Grows’ (released 9th March …
Track: Jack Cooper – Fat Old Sun, plus European Tour Dates
Who doesn’t like a good Pink Floyd song? Certainly Jack Cooper, also of Ultimate Painting, does because he’s released his own cover of Floyd’s Fat Old Sun. Of the cover he says “I was selling merch at the last show of my US tour and a guy who had bought a record told me that …
See: The Velvet Hands release new video for Only Blame Myself
Garage rock quartet The Velvet Hands have shared the video that accompanies their new single ‘Only Blame Myself’ which is out digitally on January 26th. It’s taken from the bands forthcoming debut album ‘Party’s Over’, which drops digitally and on limited Record Store Day vinyl on April 21st, and on CD and standard vinyl May …
Track: Teenage Wrist – Dweeb
“That song and the record in general in my mind is about growing up and realizing that the world around you isn’t necessarily the one that you thought it would be,” says Teenage Wrist’s guitarist/vocalist Marshall Gallagher of their new track Dweeb, taken from the bands forthcoming debut album. It’s this melancholic but melodic track, …