Indie
New Music: Dutch indie rockers Stillwave release new single, From Here
Utrecht’s finest export, Stillwave, today release their third in a series of singles leading up to the recording of their much anticipated debut LP. ‘From Here’ opens up clean, fresh and alluring, as it drags you along in an almost dreamlike incantation. If you listen closely, you’ll find elements similar to ‘Karma Police’, but the …
Track: Alvvays – Adult Diversion, plus tour dates
Taken from their acclaimed self-titled debut album, comes a new single, Adult Diversion, from Canada indie kids Alvvays. It drops, via Transgressive on June 22nd, ahead of a UK tour, the last we will see of the band across here until they’ve gone away and recorded new material. It drops straight into your lap with …
Track: Albert Hammond Jr – Losing Touch, plus US tour dates
Ahead of his forthcoming solo album Momentary Masters, sometime Stroke Albert Hammond Jr is back with a new song taken from that very record, Losing Touch. Its his third solo album, but first since 2008’s ¿Cómo Te Llama?, and it drops on 31st July via Vagrant/BMG. You’ll recognise that guitar sound at the beginning, less …
Album Review: Everything Everything – Get To Heaven
Everything Everything’s third album Get to Heaven thankfully does not veer far from their first two witty, dark records. This time around they feel very confident about their work and rightly so. In fact, it contains probably their hookiest pop song yet, the first single “Distant Past” and other flashes of danceable despair. Bass player Jeremy …
New Music: Dreampop quartet I Know Leopard release new single Close My Eyes
I wrote about I Know Leopard, after the release of their debut single, ‘Picture Perfect’ late last year and saw it as a perfect antidote to the Northern Hemisphere’s winter. Now, six months or so later, at my desk at the Backseat Mafia’s antipodean offices in Sydney, it is the Southern Hemisphere’s turn to be …
Track: Clean Cut Kid – Vitamin C
Liverpool four piece Clean Cut Kid, aka Mike Halls, Evelyn Halls, Saul Godman and Ross Higginson, make music best described, at least to Halls, as “Soulful pop ballads, washed in Mersey water”. After spending so much time in the studio that Saul ended up living in it (Mike and Evelyn being on the same road) …
Track: Telegram – Aeons
It seems almost laughable that Telegram only formed just over eighteen months ago, given everything they have achieved since, but so it is that Matt Saunders (vocals/ guitar), Matt Wood (guitar), Oli Paget-Moon (bass) and Jordan Cook (drums) came together – moulding their love of Roxy Music, krautrock and proto-punk into something rather special. Coming …
Track: The Gorgeous Chans – By the highway
Nottingham six piece the Gorgeous Chans started out riffing on Paul Simons seminal Graceland album, and to an extent it still references their melodic indie music today, with their slightly tropical, brass heavy twists on the run of the mill. The band have just revealed the b-sde to their debut single, out on July 6th. …
Album Review: The Fratellis “Me And The Devil”
It’s been over two years since “We Need Medicine” but Glasgow’s favourite indie trio The Fratellis are back! They’ve got a brand new song “Me And The Devil”, an upcoming album “Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied” and have just announced a few live dates in the UK followed by a US tour in September. It is …
Video: The Riptide movement speak and record an exclusive session track
A couple of weeks ago we hauled ourselves over to Live at Leeds where amongst many others Lucan quartet The Riptide Movement we’re performing. Bonding over the likes of Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Ryan Adams, Rory Gallagher and The Rolling Stones after meeting in 2006, the band – Mal Tuohy (lead vocals/guitar) and …