indie tracks
EP: The Van T’s – A Coming Of Age
The Van T’s have indeed come of age on their exhilarating and assured second EP. Twin sisters Hannah (guitar, vocals) and Chloe Van Thompson (guitar, vocals), along with Joanne Forbes (bass) and Shaun Hood (drums), grabbed my attention last year with their impressive debut EP ‘Laguna Babe’. It was just the right mix of grunge …
Track: Dot Dash – Daddy Long Legs
If you like your indie rock of the rollocking good time variety, you can bounce up and down and throw your arms in the air to your hearts content at the new track from perennial backseat mafia favourites Dot Dash, Daddy Long Legs. Taken from their recent fifth album, Searchlights, out right now via Ottawa-based …
Track: Cymbals Eat Guitars – 4th of July, Philadelphia (Sandy)
Taken from their forthcoming new album, Pretty Years, due out in September, is the new single – ‘4th of July, Philadelphia (Sandy)’ from New York quartet Cymbals Eat Guitars. Preceeded by the lead single from the record ‘Wish’, the album is the follow up to 2014’s Lose, and was produced by John Congleton. 4th of …
Track: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
Between the death of and the general dearth of Rock n’ Roll icons, we should be thankful for the existence of Nick Cave. In his career he’s managed to summon the primal energy of Iggy, the seminal throb of The Cramps, and the tortured cool of Johnny Cash. As an artist his authenticity and integrity …
Track: Hospital’s new single Louder to cure summer blues
With their 2013 debut titled When The Trees Were Higher and its 2015 follow-up Uncommon Sense, Hospital firmly established themselves as one of the best indie-pop bands in Russia. Their crunchy guitars, poppy hooks and dreamy lyrics warmed hearts of thousands fans all over the country and beyond. Their music has also appealed to such …
Track: Psycho Comedy – One
Although they formed less than a year ago, Liverpool Psychedelic five-piece Psycho Comedy are already beginning to make waves, having recently played sets at Liverpool Sound City and festEVOL. Last Friday they released their rebut single ‘One’, produced by Gil Norton, who in the past has worked with the likes of The Pixies and Foo …
Track: Rhys Bloodjoy: Scandinavian Girlfriend / Broken Window
Emerging from the shadowy backstreets and alleys of Manchester, the hooded figure of Rhys Bloodjoy brings us his debut 7″, Scandinavian Girlfriend / Broken Window. Fraut with tension, almost sinister in its delivery, Bloodjoy utilises the looper to create a stroke of lo-fi genius, that will haunt you long into the night… Scandinavian Girlfriend / Broken …
Track: The Raveonettes – ‘Scout’
With digital downloads, crowd funding and DIY production it has become easier to break free from the constraints of a traditional album release. The Raveonettes are another band that has decided to do things differently with their new ‘anti-album’. ‘Scout’ is the fifth song from the ‘RAVE-SOUND-OF-THE-MONTH’ playlist where the Danish duo will continue to …
Track: Rattle – Stringer Bell, plus album news
If you haven’t heard Nottingham duo Rattle, aka Fists drummer Theresa Wrigley and Kogumaza sticks woman Katherine Eira Brown, then prepare to be confounded. The pair are making interesting and unlikely music based around (you guessed it) drumming and percussive noises, and their debut eponymous album comes out on August 5th via Upset the Rythm/I …
Track: Evans the Death – Suitcase Jimmy, plus UK tour dates
Dan Moss, guitarist of London five piece Evans the Death, explains the origins of their newly shared track Suitcase Jimmy, as “We owe the title to our friend Carolina – I was hanging out with her by the river one day and we saw this guy just strutting along with his suitcase, and she said …