Posts Tagged ‘Indie’

The CREPES – ” Ain’t Horrible “

Posted: January 2, 2015 in MUSIC
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Melbourne‘s the Crepes first step as a band turned out to be a gigantic floating leap.
The five-piece’s debut single,”Ain’t Horrible”, is pop perfection; a slow-flowing pastel colored storm that jars all the beauty and whimsy living below psych-pop’s underground and pull it up to full bloom in its wash.  While I traipse through the blotted meadows, make sure to look out for the Crepes‘ forthcoming debut EP due for release in 2015.
It’s chill and laid back like Dick Diver, Mac DeMarco, Twerps, but the chorus actually reminds me of a lo-fi version of Grizzly Bear with it’s careful drumming and vocal layering. It’s a pleasant mix between slacker lyrics such as “I just want to go back to bed” and the delicate craftsmanship of a band not content with just lounging around their house for the rest of their youth.

KIRAN LEONARD – ” A Purpose “

Posted: December 22, 2014 in MUSIC
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Kiran Leonard performing ‘A Purpose’ for Super Smash Hit Sessions. Kiran Leonard is a singer-songwriter from near Manchester, but another kid busker with a soulful voice he ain’t. Record companies searching for the next Ed Sheeran can probably look away now . One of the tracks on his album, “Bowler Hat Soup” – which isn’t even his debut, despite the fact he’s only 17 – sounds like a hardcore band playing a show tune. Others remind us of Ariel Pink in a tussle with Aphex Twin,  Needless to say, Leonard is more Frank Zappa . “Bowler Hat Soup” includes 16 tracks and features Leonard playing everything bar a swordfish trombone, from the usual piano and guitar to a grill. There are as many ideas as there are instruments , his press release contains more ideas than most records by people twice his age. He describes his album as “a hexadecagonal pseudo-fortress of occasionally caustic and semi-illiterate pop nonsense” and, employing a decidedly regal third-person, “suspects the whole thing is a little schizophrenic and relentless” while tacitly acknowledging the benefits of such qualities. He is “a firm believer in the exponential curve that connects the power and excellence of a show with its number of drummers” and “claims his music is capable of causing uncontrollable bouts of hysteria”.

VIGO THIEVES – ” Razorblade in Barrowlands ” EP

Posted: December 20, 2014 in MUSIC
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They’re one of the hottest young bands in Scotland at the moment but Vigo Thieves are more than ready to take the step into the big leagues. The Wishaw five-piece have steadily been building a dedicated following over the last few years and it looks like 2015 is going to be the year the boys finally break through.

It’s been slow and steady progress for the band, who formed in 2008 but were only recently described by T in the Park supremo Geoff Ellis as “the hottest new band in Scotland”, a description frontman Stevie Jukes is more than happy with.

A wee while ago, we didn’t take it seriously enough but we spent a fair bit of time rehearsing and finding our sound.

“We met a guy called Tim Vigon – who managed The Streets, Bloc Party and The Zutons – who told us to get a plan together, put together an EP, make it as good as we can and release it.

BAD LUCK – ” Golden Coast “

Posted: December 14, 2014 in MUSIC
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You’d be right to describe Bad  Luck as pitch-perfect pop punk, but that wouldn’t completely do them complete justice. The group specializes in sunny guitar jams,great harmonies, and some of Scotland’s catchiest melodies.

Their first release, “Between Dog & Wolf”, is an all about hanging out with friends in the summer and skateboarding in the sun. It’s also an incredibly promising taste of things to come.5 tracks of awesome summery indie rock

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The musical artists split 60% of every Good Pack sale. You can also support BAD  LUCK directly onBandcamp.

BELL XI – ” Starlings Over Brighton “

Posted: December 12, 2014 in MUSIC
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Dublin’s Bell X1 is a band whose albums I consistently devour upon their release. Their last release nearly a year ago was, “Chop Chop”, is a little tamer than its predecessors, but holds up well against them (all exceptionally underrated). “Careful What You Wish For” features infectious piano and synth lines and is surely one of the album’s standout tracks, also thanks to their lead singer Paul Noonan’s angelic-like vocals. His words always cut right through me, but particularly in this song.

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PRETTY VICIOUS – ” Cave Song “

Posted: December 9, 2014 in MUSIC
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These Welsh Indie Rockers were intoduced to us by fan and fellow Welshman Jonny Owen. They’re brand new for 2014, and their raw, blues-rock ‘n roll sound will appeal to fans of Royal Blood, Arctic Monkeys, and White Stripes.

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Merthyr teens Pretty Vicious channel ’94-era Oasis attitude, but twin it with a mainstream production sound that’s getting a lot of major labels very excited indeed. They’ve only got one track online, ‘Cave Song’, which sounds a little like Jake Bugg fronting Arctic Monkeys.

The TWERPS – ” Shoulders “

Posted: December 9, 2014 in MUSIC
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new track from The Twerps’ forthcoming second album “Range Anxiety”.Range Anxiety is out Jan 23 on Chapter Music (Aus/NZ).
Pre-order the album and get “Shoulders” + first single “Back To You” via: the webpage. The low-key but top-notch indie-pop of Twerps harkens back to the 1980s, when fellow Australians the Go-Betweens and New Zealand neighbours the Chills and the Clean made waves on college radio. They’re smart and literate without trying too hard at either, and tender without ever getting whiny or overemotional. It’s classic college radio stuff done as well as anybody else today is doing it.

TY SEGALL – ” Manipulator “

Posted: December 7, 2014 in MUSIC
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Ty’s latest release is an album at once both contemporary enough in feel to please the forward looking people and yet nostalgic enough to please those who like their bands to reference the past.
“Manipulator is an exquisitely well written and well recorded album. We might be back here next week talking about the triple album Segall wrote and recorded during his lunch breaks whilst making this one, but for now it leaves me to say California’s busiest songwriter has done it again.

LETS WRESTLE – ” Codeine and Marshmellows “

Posted: December 7, 2014 in MUSIC
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Let’s Wrestle the album Let’s Wrestle on Fortuna POP Records had great tunes with rough edges and pained lyrics is what Let’s Wrestle tend to specialise in and that’s never more so the case than in this album which saw them enter a new phase of maturity and sophistication and gave frontman Wesley Patrick Gonzalez a forum to showcase his songwriting talents and love of classic pop.
Let’s Wrestle have released their greatest collection of songs yet. Introspective, poignant and eloquently honest lyrics and generous strings around the indie sound show that this is a band maturing very well indeed.

LAKEFIELD – ” Good Guy “

Posted: December 7, 2014 in MUSIC
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Lakefield and their album “Swan Songs”  were a band at their end when they released “Swan Songs” a hybrid of gentle indie pop and a scrubbed clean big hardcore sound. It has the witty intelligence of Belle and Sebastian lyrics the sound of a band not just accepting the end but taking it on their own terms, and blazing more brightly for it. “As a farewell this is a beautiful and bittersweet decline. Swan Songs has you fall in love with this band in their dying moments; awed by the bright flash of goodbye, their incandescence burnt into your memory.”

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