The latest release in the Eardrums Pop series is from Spain’s Lost Tapes. Eardrums say “Catchy, upbeat indiepop in the veins of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pastels, Ride, Spacemen 3 and lots of Creation- and Sarah Records bands“. I am not sure about all of that suffice to say it’s an enjoyable listen. Head to the Eardrums release page for more or download the EP directly. Continue reading Lost Tapes – S/T EP
June sees the release of the second album from The Secret History. It’s called Americans Singing In The Dark and will be released on Cloudberry Records. The first preview track is now available to stream and to download courtesy of the label. You can also download their last single, Sergio, via Bandcamp for nowt. Check out the New Order-ish remix from Plastic Flowers. It even starts like Procession! Download the mp3: The Secret History – Age of Victoria Facebook Homepage Continue reading The Secret History – Age of Victoria
Every Year Until We Die is the first single/track taken from Bouvier’s forthcoming album Lay Down Your Life For A Song. You can download it for free or any monies you may part with will go towards The Midland Railway Trust which is the home of Indietracks. And that’s also not the only news about Bouvier. Apparently she will be fronting the reforming The Flatmates. Yep that’s right! You heard me. The Flatmates. Read more about it at Sam’s excellent A Layer Of Chips. Homepage Continue reading Lisa Bouvier – Every Year Until We Die
Without Feathers are Nat Johnson, Emma Kupa & Rory McVicar whose names you may recognise (solo acts or ex Standard Fare/ ex Monkey Swallows The Universe etc etc!). Three Songs is their first available set of demos which you can either stream or download either for nowt or a small contribution. I don’t normally “do” acoustic music (and don’t me started on ukuleles!) but the first track here Scared and Worried is outstanding. Facebook Nat Johnson Rory McVicar Continue reading Without Feathers – Three Songs
I mentioned the Christian Strobe’s remix of My Bloody Valentine’s remix of Soon a couple of weeks back. Here is another remixed version courtesy of Glasgow’s Small Scale Collisions. Continue reading My Bloody Valentine – Soon Dub (Small Scale Collisions Remix)
Fire Records will be re-reissuing the Spacemen 3 discography on 180g vinyl. The first part of this exercise sees the bands’ first three albums re-released next Monday with the original track listings – no extra tracks here. These are, with the year of original release in brackets Sound Of Confusion (1986), The Perfect Prescription (1987) and the live album Performance (1988). Continue reading Spacemen 3 Reissues
More sixties inspired indiepop this time from Brooklyn, New York. If you liked the Souvenir Stand release I posted a few days ago then this will suit you to a tee. Homepage Continue reading Chalk and Numbers – Parade EP
Following on from their stunning performance at the Sounds XP all dayer Torquay based indiepoppers Big Wave will be releasing a new single later this month. It’s titled Goldmine and is backed by GW Bridge. The flip side is available for streaming and also as a free download via the link on the player below. Punchy indiepop – just as it should be.! It’s out on 20th May (gold cassette single!) via the Art Is Hard label. Buy it here. Homepage Main pix by Elissabetta Pezzaioli Continue reading Big Wave – Goldmine/GW Bridge
Possibly my release of the year so far. Fantastic artwork too. I reckon the gorgeous 1960’s sounds will make Elefant’s ears pop up such is that label’s fascination with the periods over the past year or so. Out now as a Cassette single on Beautiful Strange or buy digitally from bandcamp. Homepage Continue reading Souvenir Stand – Days
I have mentioned The Fireworks debut self titled EP previously. They have now released a video for the lead track “Higher and Higher”. They also have a change of drummer. Carys has rejoined the reformed (or should that be revitalised?) Give It Ups and has been replaced by Shaun Charman who used to play in The Wedding Present and The Popguns. The EP can be purchased via the label. Homepage Continue reading The Fireworks – Higher and Higher
