HABITATS are the Hampshire hailing four-piece punching a necessary groove into funky indie. Following the success of their ‘Jungles’ EP and impressive debut ‘Diamond Days’, the band’s latest single ‘Guilty Pleasure’ continues their hypnotic guitar-pop score.
Back once again with his folk-tinged eccentric indie-pop, Toothless (AKA Ed Nash) has unveiled his next single on Island Records, accompanied by some striking, intriguing visuals. With captivating, deep soundscapes buried beneath dramatic, string-plucked melodies and absorbing, lifting harmonies (courtesy of The Staves), his latest release is theatrical, engrossing and charming.
Keir is as hard to check into a tick box on the indie-pop spectrum as the compellingly alternative Ezra Furman. Making music with an eclectic range of influences, from soul, R&B and indie to jazz, futro and electronica, Keir is equally as mystifying.
‘Bliss’ is a wonderful, swirly piece of laid-back dream-pop, where the deep, relaxed vocals of Grant Williams echo tranquil, above serene synth-setting. Lifting gently in the choruses, then softly settling back into a dream-groove state in the verses, the track is hypnotic from start to finish. No subtle change is too jarring; yet each movement […]
Australia has a new pop beauty to call their name far and wide, Jack River (aka Holly Rankin) announces her intentions with bohemian crowning glory ‘Palo Alto’. The prairie spanning cut is lifted off debut EP ‘Highway Songs No. 2’, and is a love-spurned, attention-grabbing jawdropper.
Today we welcome back SHELLS with another one of her exquisitely crafted songs, ‘Jailbird’ is the Londoner at her most vulnerable and resilient. Breaking away from her captors charms to acknowledge a newfound freedom and self-awareness, it’s a play for inner strength.
October Drift are known for crafting emotive sky-gazing rock, that is equally merciless in its pensive songwriting and straight-to-the-chest power punch ambition. Returning with last month’s softly abrasive melody-driven ‘Cinnamon Girl’, the Somerset collective hit the ground running to a powerful impact. Now in full-speed ascension, October Drift follow up with ‘Cherry Red’, a jolt of darkened […]
Everything about ‘Tides’, the latest single from dream pop five-piece Swimming Tapes, has the feel of a sunset evening at the end of a long beach side day. Between gaps in the waves of vocals, Robbie Reid and Louis Price’s waltzing reverberations allow the music to drift in and out of focus.
Around six months ago, Newcastle indie-eclectic math-rockers A Festival, A Parade released their ‘A Piece Of Meat, An Irregular Heartbeat’ EP. Boasting bare-face originality, sorrowful charm and very subtle, underlying neuroticism, they quickly found their way onto the radar of taste-makers and bloggers alike. Though, with heavy buzz comes high expectation, and AFAP have certainly […]
Brooding dark-pop crafter George Cosby unveils the ominously seductive ‘All of Your Love’. Perfecting powerful song-craft, Cosby releases the second track from his forthcoming EP A Savage Kiss. With simple, yet carefully cutting, wordplay the London based rising-dynamo follows the debut success of his 2015 EP Human Touch. Using graceful arrangement, Cosby expands on his impassioned […]
Sydney’s Hollow States take the high road on new single ‘Go and Be’. Refusing to let the hurt show and releasing their ex-lover from any responsibility in their heartbreak. It’s all so liberating.
Few songs nowadays are as packed with explosive potential as the latest Gold Class track Kids On Fire. As of now, if there’s ever a need to demonstrate what tension sounds like to a packed auditorium of students, all a lecturer needs do is play them the first 30 seconds of this track.
Communions shimmer into view with an ‘Eternity’ of unlived experience at their fingertips, in this gorgeous lament to the passage of time. Combining the jangly indie of The Smiths with the nostalgic sunshine pop of The Drums.
The latest release from Manchester’s Francis Lung welcomes in a most infectious dichotomy between insatiable uplifting melodies and defiant introspection. ‘A Selfish Man’ is arguably the most familiar track in Lung’s catalogue, and one that easily leads the pack.
Brighton is well and truly winning right now on the music front. Our new favourite find is four-piece Safe To Swim, the band released their debut EP ’20 Years’ a few months back and have since been spending their summer playing all the cool festivals. So today’s TOTD highlights their latest track ‘Pieces’, lifted from […]
Richard Walters’ emotive songwriting doesn’t rely on any supplementary gloss, instead it rallies in the purity of honest emotion. With his angelic falsetto and rich tone at the centre-point of each enveloping masterpiece, elegantly soaring higher with every raised caress, Walters’ music becomes a staple. The Oxford native is treating us to another piece from his forthcoming album ‘A.M’ due for […]
London glitter punks TEAR smear attitude all over four-and-a-half minute long video for song ‘Beautiful’, taken from their debut self-titled EP. In a sort of rugged romance, the visuals play part in gendering the song’s subject matter exposing themes of vanity, glamour, opposition and artificiality. Fixing on these binary’s creates a provocative air around the […]
Unfurling guitar riffs, a raw and beautiful voice, surrounded by an evolving soundscape that ebbs and flows, the song is ‘Small Crimes’ the debut from Londoner Nilüfer Yanya.
The debut single from Miss Pompeii ‘Haru Haiku’ consists of chill and sparse synth backing with the striking vocals of Claire Whiting layered over the top, making for a wonderful electronic pop track which is lush in composition.
British songwriter Billie Marten has blossomed in the past 12 months, capturing the minds of a populous that are craving authenticity, with her honest brand of soul-baring acoustica and gentle captivating charm. The earthiness of her songcraft lingers like the fresh morning dew on a window pane, she sings about the hopes and fears of youth […]