TOP 30: YOUR FRIEND & CHARLIE HILTON DEBUT WHILE TOPS IS TOP
Tweet Slim pickings this week as the year winds down but we have a new number one and the two new entries are more than worthy. Coming in at 23 is the swirling and deliberative ‘Heathering’, from Taryn Miller’s Your Friend project. Her debut album, Gumption is out early next year. Charlie Hilton, from […]
THE DELAY IS OVER, MOLLY NILSSON’S ZENITH PHYSICALLY ARRIVES
Tweet After a six week delay due to pressing delays, Berlin based Swedish artist Molly Nilsson’s new and sixth record was finally made available in tactile form on vinyl and CD last week. To coincide with this momentous occasion, the fifth music video from the album, ‘My Body’ has been released. While its been […]
TOP 30: PORT. ST. WILLOW, GRIMES, SAVAGES, BLOOD ORANGE & FRANCIS DEBUT
Tweet There are just four weekly Top 30 charts to go for 2015 as we wind down another great year in independently made and released music (that’s what “indie” actually means incidentally). Beating out more well known artists to lead the five new entries is Port St. Willow, the project of Nick Principe whose […]
JOANNA NEWSOM’S DIVERS OUR AOTW, TITLE TRACK VIDEO
Tweet Seminal Californian singer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist Joanna Newsom released her fourth full length album Divers a couple of weeks back, another first class work of highly idiosyncratic lyricism and exquisitely ornamental musical arrangements to which she enlisted the support of eight musicians including Nico Mulhy, David Longstreth and Ryan Francesconi as well […]
BELIEFS UNVEIL VIDEO FOR ‘LEAPER’
Tweet Toronto shoegaze duo Beliefs have released the angular and rather contemplative title track and third single off their forthcoming album, Leaper. It takes things down a notch across its six minutes in comparison to the explosive ‘1992’ which has been in our chart for the past month. You can listen to track below […]
TOP 30: HAZEL ENGLISH TOPS THE CHART AS THIS WEEKS FEATURED TRACKS DEBUT
Tweet The four tracks featured on Indie30 in the past week all enter the chart in the following order. Junior Boys is the highest entry at 17 with the title track to their forthcoming album, ‘Big Black Coat’. Nao enters at 25 with her new single, ‘Bad Blood’. Rats On Rafts debut with ‘Sleep […]
RATS ON RAFTS RELEASE TAPE HISS TO THE WORLD
Tweet Idiosyncratic Rotterdam post punk outfit Rats On Rafts have just globally re-released their latest album, Tape Hiss, after quietly releasing it on Bandcamp back in April. Now in their 11th year, the quartet have produced something special with just their second full length, genre hopping with ease through the eight tracks. From the […]
LONDON ARTIST NAO RELEASES NEW SINGLE
Tweet London singer/songwriter and producer Nao has gone very much under the radar around here until a few days ago when we came across her new offbeat soul pop number ‘Bad Blood’. This prompted us to delve into her two previously released EP’s, 2014’s So Good and this years February 15. And suffice to […]
JUNIOR BOYS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, SHARE TITLE TRACK
Tweet Hamilton electronic veterans Junior Boys are set to return with a new album, Big Black Coat to be released February 5th next year on City Slang. It’s the first new track we’ve heard from Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus since the brilliant It’s All True. Big Black Coat is their fifth record and […]
MEMORYHOUSE ANNOUNCE NEW RECORD
Tweet Guelph dream pop duo Memoryhouse are set to follow up their debut full length, The Slideshow Effect from 2012 with a new album Soft Hate, scheduled for early 2016. Evan Abeele and Denise Nouvion have announced the first single, ‘Dream Shake’, an uplifting piece of groove filled dream pop topped by Nouvion’s silky […]