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.
RIIKI - SHARE YOUR LUV
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Wellington, NZ alt-pop songstress RIIKI follows last year's debut single 'One Day', and second release 'High Heights' with 'Share Your Luv', her first of 2020. Melding soulful touches with electronica, indie-pop and a hint of R&B, in a song about heartbreak and longing. "I’m usually the friend helping people I know around me in these situations," she says. "But it just feels so damn real when you’re in it and you truly experience that really sad feeling you never saw coming. Although, it is so important that if you fall into that situation you remind yourself ‘you were never the problem or held responsible, they were’. Don’t blame yourself, instead have a lil boogie, because this only made you way stronger."
WAXFLOWER - SIXTEEN FLOORS
Brisbane quartet Waxflower are back with their latest pop-punk explosion in new single 'Sixteen Floors' - with all streaming revenue in June going to Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service and Black Lives Matter, with donations being matched by their label, Rude Records. Assertive vocals are matched with able, wiry guitars, before a flurry of drums beat it out to a climatic final chorus. "‘Sixteen Floors’ was written at the end of a relationship, and along with my anxiety and panic disorder I was facing a new kind of sadness, with the backbone of my emotional support system gone," reveals vocalist Tristan Higginson. "The song served as a vessel for all the negative thoughts and emotions that I wanted to externalise, but couldn’t. I remember that writing session being very fast, and very cathartic."
WING DEFENCE - RELOCATE
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After Little Indie first heard them last summer with 'Cuts', 'Relocate' is the latest single off the forthcoming 'Friends' EP by Adelaide's indie pop-punk two-piece Wing Defence, out July 3. The reflective track from Skye Lockwood and Paige Court delivers catchy pop-punk melodies and upbeat rhythms, apt as they describe the track as “about relocating your negative energy into positive things rather than letting the loneliness of that energy consume you and make you bitter. Wing Defence is fundamentally a band about shedding light on common struggles, on adult life and finding ways through. Looking for positivity and lifting each other up - through our music we’ve bonded, grown-up and taught each other lessons.”
CHILLINGWORTH - THIS LOVE
Sixth single from Brisbane synth-pop duo, Holly (vocals) and William (guitar) Chillingworth - "and the one we're most proud of!" The three-minute breakup ballad is filled with their signature guitar lines and Holly's melodious vocal style. "'This Love' is an honest ode to anyone who's ever had to break up with someone. Its vulnerable lyrics and edgy guitar lines depict the perils of such a heart wrenching decision that many have to make," they add.
AUTOSUGGEST - MY SIGNAL
Sydney electronic rock trio Autosuggest drop new single 'My Signal', incorporating new-wave and post-punk with electronic rock, and introducing a electro-pop sonic palette. Recorded across two bedrooms and a kitchen, the band further introduce female backing vocals. “For this ‘season’ of the band, lot of the work is based upon exiting a toxic relationship, finding all the wrong ways to cope with the mess and learning to deal with it ” explains frontman Alec Mallia.
VOODOO BLOO - MMA
Released last week, Wellington, NZ artist Rory McDonald, aka Voodoo Bloo, makes a strong entrance with this debut single. Taken from his forthcoming album 'Jacobus', the fast-paced jam is driven by fierce guitars, a vocal style akin to Fontaines D.C, and a shed-load of post-punk urgency. “This song is about that one drunk friend or even just an intoxicated asshole you meet when out in town on substance-driven adventures," he explains. "The characters you sometimes meet teach you great lessons about what an ego is and how, when inhibitions slip, you can see a person’s true personality come out. And it’s not always pretty.”
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