With the vibrant indie music scene in Australia and New Zealand constantly outshining much of the output from their British and American cousins, Little Indie picks our weekly bunch of some of the best new tracks on offer.
RADICALS - CALL
Released last week, Sydney's bad ass RADICALS follow their debut 'Stay,' from earlier this year with another slice of raw, energy-packed grunge-esque grit. “'Call' was the first song I ever wrote when I was about 15," says vocalist Brandon. "I wasn’t the best guy back then and didn’t treat my ex-girlfriend the way I should’ve. So I wrote her a song to say that I’m sorry, that she’s beautiful, all that cringy teenage stuff. In the end though, I didn’t tell her I wrote it, didn’t do anything with it, we never really spoke to each other again, and I never played the song with anyone until 8 years later. Sick!”
SONS OF ZÖKU - DEAD POETS
Adelaide psych/experimental trio SONS OF ZÖKU follow up the double A-side 'Luz'/'Paralysed' from the start of the year, with a suitably kaleidoscopic video for their psych-rock number 'Dead Poets' that dropped originally last autumn. Resounding drums and big wailing guitar riffs are enriched by eastern influenced touches.
THIS WAY NORTH - YOU BE YOU
Indie pop-rock two-piece - vocalist and drummer Cat Leahy and guitarist/ vocalist Leisha Jungalwalla - from Yackandandah, north of Melbourne, drop this new single this week. About "celebrating the differences between us, allowing those you love to just be themselves", the track, produced by Brad Jones in Nashville, comes with a nostalgic bent, encompassing reverb guitars, mellifluous vocals in a folk-pop setting.
STELLIE - I'D HAVE KILLED FOR YOU
The sub-three minute 'I'd Have Killed For You', shows 21-year-old Adelaide singer-songwriter Stellie as an on-the-rise artist. This new alt-indie pop single, out May 29, follows ‘How Do We Look So Good?’ from earlier this year, and last year’s breakout single, ‘Love Me First’, highlighting her smooth, jazz inflected vocal delivery over subtle beats and radiant guitar.
TEEN ANGST - LET (PULL THROUGH)
Perth lo-fi four-piece Teen Angst define their sound as “anti-social pop”, as heard last year on 'Not So Vitriolic'. New track 'Let (Pull Through)' is one side of their new AA single (w/ 'Cheeseburger'). Michelle Yeong's hazy vocals alternate with guitarist and backing vocalist Connor Patmore's, over steady shimmery guitars. "I always wanted to write a song about tennis that wasn't actually about tennis," says Yeong. "The track explores the concept of scraping through life, with a parallel to barely getting a ball to the other side of the court in a game of tennis."
Recorded at Roundhead Studios with producer Greg Haver (Manic Street Preachers), Gisborne, NZ teen punks, led by 16-year-old Cory Newman (who uses a wheelchair due to cerebral palsy), unveil feisty new single, 'First World Problems'. Written about problems that aren’t really problems, and why people should stop complaining about small things that don’t matter, it's a drum-battering, garage punk riffed, frenetic banger, lifted from their forthcoming album 'Confessions of a Pie Thief', out June 26.
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