I know absolutely nothing about this band. I think they come from London but they sound like a certain NYC band around about the time of their début album. Answers on a postcard! EDIT: Now available as a free download from bandcamp. Facebook Continue reading Night Flowers – Single Beds
Indiepop from Manchester, heavily influenced by the C86 cassette and Sarah Records for one. 7″ single due late summer on the Box Bedroom Rebels label. Facebook Continue reading Horsebeach – Horsebeach
New single from Durham’s Martha. Available as a strictly limited edition 7″ single via Oddbox Records.The flip side reminds me of a very early Futureheads. Facebook Continue reading Martha – Sycamore
Jangling diy indiepop from Copenhagen. The other EP’s available from their bandcamp page are also worth downloading if this EP grabs you. I particularity like Big Hit from January’s Sailor Panda EP. Homepage Facebook Continue reading The Glow Cats – Oh!
New single from Young Romance due for release in July. No idea of a label as of yet. I will feel those details in when they emerge! EDIT: When posting this yesterday I noticed the band had pulled earlier tracks from Bandcamp and Soundcloud. Then this morning I remembered the free EP they released on Eardrums Pop last year which is still available for downloading. Follow On Your Own is the lead track from that EP. Facebook Continue reading Young Romance – Young Romance
Flowers have made the When You Lie single available as a digital download. It’s yours for nowt or as much as you can chip in. The 7″ is still available via Cloudberry Records. They have also made available some demos form their “early days”. This set features Cut and Run which appeared as a limited edition single via Bleeding Gold. Facebook Continue reading Flowers – When You Lie EP
The Felt Tips have just released their second album Symbolic Violence on German label Firestation Records. It’s the follow up to 2010’s excellent debut Living and Growing. Here are three tracks taken from the album. You can order it here. And the standout track (although that was a hard decision!) from the previous album: Homepage Continue reading The Felt Tips – Symbolic Violence
Club 8’s new album Above The City is out next week on vinyl, CD or digital formats. Pre-order it from the Labrador shop. In the meantime you can stream the whole album. Homepage Continue reading Club 8 – Above The City
The first post I wrote about Flowers seem to be consistently popular on this site. Since then we (Sleeping Today) have put the band on and I also managed to get my mitts on the Cloudberry 7″ release which is still available if you can afford the US postage charges which make ours look pretty reasonable! Here is another release of theirs I came across after the original post. It came out in July last year via Bleeding Gold Records. The limited edition lathe cut 7″ vinyl (!) release is sold out but the digital tracks are still available. And … Continue reading Flowers – Cut & Run
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
