Ireland’s Martian Subculture creates leftfield, lo-fi psych rock. An eerie, restrained vocal is surrounded by kooky, comatose guitars on tracks that oscillate between themes of love, loneliness and interplanetary exploration. Recorded alone in a bedroom studio, latest single All Emotions Are Equal is an irresistible invitation into a new sonic universe. Continue reading Martian Subculture – All Emotions Are Equal
Here are ten new tunes all nicely collected up for you in one easy post – from the righteous fury of IDLES and Honey Lung to the traditional folk of Bonny Light Horseman and Devendra Banhart. We also have new songs from the likes of the Lumineers, Parsnip, New Pornographers, Sleater-Kinney, Angel Olsen and The Growlers. Whatever floats your boat, there is something here to enjoy. … Continue reading Round Up Time Again
Elvis Depressedly, the wonderfully enigmatic project of prolific songwriter, Mathew Lee Cothran, has announced Depressedelica, a brand new full-length due out October 4th from Run For Cover Records. Depressedelica marks the North Carolina based musician’s first new album as Elvis Depressedly in four long years, and it finds him writing and recording more adventurously than ever before, tipping its cap to artists as varied as … Continue reading Elvis Depressedly – Jane, Don’t You Know Me?
Following a few rough years of touring, relationships beginning and ending, and writer’s block, Mikal Cronin decided to make a change. He packed up and retreated to Idyllwild, a small town in the mountains of southern California, where he spent a month in the cabin, alone. The solitude proved fruitful, with the bulk of forthcoming long player Seeker being written and demoed during this time … Continue reading Mikal Cronin – Show Me
Just discovered The BV’s via a random Soundcloud stream – these aren’t new songs, but they are about as perfect a slice of dreamy, catchy indie pop as you could possibly hope to find. A duo hailing from Falmouth in Cornwall and Augsberg in Germany, listen to Charlie, I Don’t Know Who You Are! (from their Cartography album released back in March) which is jaunty … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The BV’s
Bristol band Some Bodies have a brand new single called TV Show. It is beautifully constructed and well crafted indie-pop that utilises a killer krautrock riff, effortlessly intertwining it with ethereal dream-pop breakdowns. Think Ty Segall crossed with Foxygen… maybe. Anyway, have a listen. Continue reading Introducing >>> Some Bodies
We’re loving this single from emerging Brighton five-piece Youth Sector, a post-punk outfit offering up a blend of drawling vocal melodies and crooked guitars on new single Renting Spaces In My World. It sounds like it has come straight out of NYC in the early 1980s and definitely has echoes of Talking Heads, Devo and even some classic indie disco, but happily it ploughs its own furrow, … Continue reading Introducing >>> Youth Sector
A couple of weeks ago Stanley Brinks & The Wave Pictures shared their new single Sober In Barcelona, which is the latest track to be taken from their forthcoming new album, Tequila Island, released next week, 21st June on Fika Recordings. it’s an ode to a lost afternoon in the baking Spanish sun that sees Mr Brinks mournfully lamenting a period of sobriety on the … Continue reading Stanley Brinks & The Wave Pictures – Sober In Barcelona
With tales of artistic jealousy, petty theft, late night psychedelic excursions, burgeoning romance, and a betrayal, Kebab Disco is the debut LP from SF Bay Area trio Neutrals. It follows the release of two well-received promotional cassette demos and is out via the Emotional Response label on the 7th June. The group channels a wide range of 70s and 80s punk, post-punk, and C86 influences … Continue reading Neutrals – Kebab Disco
Modern Nature have announced details of their debut album How To Live, released 23rd August via Bella Union. You can preorder here. The band is a new project from Jack Cooper (Ultimate Painting/Mazes), Will Young (BEAK>) plus Woods’ Aaron Neveu and Sunwatchers’ Jeff Tobias. They have shared a video for lovely first single Peradam of which frontman Cooper says: “Peradam is a word from René … Continue reading Modern Nature Announce Debut Album
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