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
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
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
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