Little Indie has had a scout around, and here are some of our best finds of the moment.
ARCADE HEARTS - Y U?
Portsmouth electronic pop four-piece Arcade Hearts - who we heard with with 'Bleach' - release their first offering of the year in the shimmering, infectious 'Y U?' Premiered by BBC Introducing, the song is about "that one friendship or relationship, where you can never get let into that person's past or have a say in their present. Pretending and lying their way along, regardless of how destructive it is to themselves and the people that care. Plus, everything bops, we love to try and create that.”
JUNODREAM - ODD BEHAVIOUR
Out now from the London-via-Bristol-based band Junodream. Nineties-tinged indie rock-pop, driven by a stomping beat and soaring guitar passages, 'Odd Behaviour' examines how bad people can get when communication breaks down. "It’s not easy realising you’re in the middle of something rotten, especially when you don’t know what the problem is," say the band. "Eventually you find yourself drifting away from someone you care about and the behaviour that comes to the surface can be kind of messed up." The track comes as a prelude to debut EP 'Terrible Things That Could Happen', out in May.
THUMPER - IN MY ROOM
“When I’m in my room, milk curdles in the sun" is the opening line to the Dublin-based noise-pop sextet's latest rockin' ditty, ‘In My Room', to be released on April 26. Oisin Leahy Furlong bashes out the scorching vocal over a barrage of guitar thrashes and cymbal clashes.
SWINE TAX - I'D LIKE
Newcastle's trio Swine Tax have produced a video for new single, filmed by Steven Bardgett, frontman of the band Mouses, which follows their
'Conversation' from late last year. 'I'd Like' shows a certain comparison to its predecessor, with a cheeky bravado in lyrics and a catchy, melodic bent to the garage rock touches.
GHOST//SIGNALS - A BAG FOR DEATH
After Little Indie premiered their
'Hectoring' last summer, Newcastle dark pop outfit Ghost//Signals have played festivals like Evo Emerging along with support tours. Now they have just dropped a new song and video. Described as “essentially about low self-worth, especially when reflecting on society’s expectations of young men, how it’s suffocating, how it ruins relationships, and how liberating it is - as a now older man! - to suss all that happened on a subconscious level.” 'A Bag For Death' sounds in theory a lot more ponderous than the 3.5-minute, fast-paced guitar-driven track actually is.
FANCLUB - UPPERCUT
The Texas trio have a vid just out for their jangly, fuzzy new single, 'Uppercut', on which Leslie Crunkilton's vocal provides a sugar-coated topping. The ghostly story of love and longing was shot completely on a Super 8 camera and directed by Shannon Wiedemeyer.
GALLERY CIRCUS - WE ARE THE SUNSHINE
Return of the Newcastle identical twin brother duo, Daniel and Graeme Ross, with a brand new track taken from their upcoming EP, out on May 31. The new release follows on from the duo’s debut EP ‘Chi-Town-Dogs’, recorded with producer Dan Austin (Pixies, Doves, Mallory Knox). Their forays back and forth to the US are reflected in this electro-rock cut which has out and out American influence stamped on it.
MASASOLO - YOU GOT THAT SOMETHING
Released April 5, a mellow groove about falling in love with a girl on Instragram from Copenhagen band Masasolo. Muddy distortion comes with biting fuzz guitars, psych-rock cues, and an off-kilter pop spirit.
SHIT GIRLFRIEND - DRESS LIKE CHER
Digital single release - out now - on exclusive limited edition splatter vinyl, released for Record Store Day UK, marks the return of Shit Girlfriend, the project of London-based BFF's Natalie Chahal (Miss World) and Laura-Mary Carter (Blood Red Shoes). Short, sharp and very un-Cher-like, with incendiary riffs and a blazing delivery.
WOVOKA GENTLE - TELL'EM, MAKOTO!
London trio Wovoka Gentle have their debut album 'Start Clanging Cymbals' out soon - June 7, to be precise - and here share a new track from the record. 'Tell'em Makoto!' starts with a fuzz noise intro before a hint of sea shanty comes in, before it drifts into folk realms. It also deploys a sample of gospel singer Mahalia Jackson just to mix up the sound even more.
No comments:
Post a Comment