An indie playlist featuring the best Indie pop / rock tracks from June 2022. Full playlist at www.birp.fm // Updated monthly, so save your favorites!  Indie, Bedroom Pop, Lofi, Surf Rock, etc.

Indie Playlist • BIRP! June 2022

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Wear My Medals is available to download and stream now https://orcd.co/wearmymedals

Wear My Medals

Silverbacks - Wear My Medals

"Queen of Cowboys" by Kindsight, released March 11 2022.
From debut LP "Swedish Punk", out March 25. Pre-order - ramalama.se/swedishpunk

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"Florida" by Lost Horizons is out now on Bella Union: https://ffm.to/lh-florida

Lost Horizons - Florida (featuring KookieLou)

Leeds quartet Crake have today announced their debut album, ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’. It arrives via Fika Recordings on April 8th. The band have also shared the album’s lead single, ‘Winter’s Song’. 

Led by enigmatic songwriter Rowan Sandle, Crake is driven by her endless curiosity. Armed with her gently cracking vocal, and inspiration from writers like Shirley Jackson and Nan Shepherd, she sings of crinoids, slime mould and pussy willow. When they supported Buck Meek at Brudenell Social Club, Buck found himself so beguiled by Sandle and her band that he invited them to support Big Thief on their UK and EU tour in 2019. Crake duly obliged and have been building towards their debut full-length ever since. 

Much of the forthcoming album revolves around the death of Sandle’s friend Anna, who died in Syria after being hit by a Turkish air strike. Anna was working for a woman’s liberation group in the war-stricken country when the tragedy took place. ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ explores the grief that followed and the lessons learnt from dealing with such a significant loss. 

Sandle does, however, find space to explore more themes alongside this grief, such as cruelty and queer nature. On lead single ‘Winter’s Song’ she acknowledges the cruelty and coldness that exists within us all, and questions how we can continue to grow and love whilst remaining true to that. 

Speaking about the track, she said: “Winter’s Song is about the absolute mundane beauty of being fallible. It's a true story, I saw the moon rise but swore it was the sun setting. I think about this line a lot: “keep a little coldness in you, just wear it soft and gentle” Be soft, be kind, be honest. Being unremarkable has its own beauty.” 

Sandle’s love for queer nature is so fervent that it makes the experience of listening to Crake akin to that of stumbling on an entirely new world. Sandle believes that life isn’t as black and white as we’ve been taught, and thinks nature holds the key to revealing the true nature of human experience. The appearances of things like slime mould - single-celled organisms that form a single body when in search of food  - brittle starfish - a type of starfish whose awareness isn’t concentrated in one place - and other such oddities furnish ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ with a folklore all of its own. 

‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ will send you down multiple rabbit holes and you’ll emerge from each with a newfound appreciation for the complexities of the world. Perhaps even more important than this though is the humanity that lies at the very heart of this debut full-length. Whether it’s in the sensitivity in how she portrays the loss of her friend, the depiction of our most base instincts - namely cruelty, passion and love - or the sincere, pure quality of the songwriting itself, it’s this that makes ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ essential, and invaluable listening.

Winter's Song

Crake - Winter's Song

Terrestrials

Joe T. Johnson is back with is spectacular new single 'Twist' available everywhere now! - Recorded over a couple of wildly productive days, produced by Lewis Bradshaw and mastered by Pete Maher (Patti Smith, Jack White, Rolling Stones, Liam Gallagher) 'Twist' was recorded taking a DIY, vintage organic approach which complements Joe's creative process

Twist

On/Off

Written by Freeds, AYEPEE 
Produced by AYEPEE, Freeds
Mixed by Kishu 
Mastered by Tom Beard 
Artwork by Daisy Squires

Freeds - Fuzzy

I'm In Love

Alien

Fall With The Lights Down (Louise)

Animals & Trees

"Amour Fou" is the second single from our debut album, coming this fall. Out now on Welfare Sounds & Records.

Produced by Per Stålberg and Kalle Lilja. Mixed by Kalle Lilja. Mastered by Esben Willems. Artwork by Jakob Ekvall.

Amour Fou

Description:
Broken Protocol is a reckoning based on my life experiences. Each track exposes the hunger to steal light, the calculated rituals of emotional theft, and the devastating realization that what felt like love was never real. This album documents the cycle—love bombing, gaslighting, ghosting—repeated not by accident, but by design. It’s the story of being chosen only to be drained, of grieving a relationship that never existed, and of finally naming the abuse for what it is: a sinister ploy to destroy. These songs bring it to the light, with no apology and no return.

I Don’t Belong to Your Spell

Nightgazers

The debut solo single from Elyse Wilder, “Linger” is a quiet ache set to 90s-grunge dream-folk.
Recorded in the same house where Hollow Pines first rehearsed, the song feels like a ghost wandering through the rooms they left behind — warm, cracked, and honest.
With her denim-and-lace rasp, Elyse steps out from her brother’s shadow and into her own light, singing about the kind of love that doesn’t end so much as fade through the walls.

Linger

May Lawn Down

Bathe Alone is the dream-pop moniker of multi-instrumentalist Bailey Crone. Taking shape in Atlanta, her haunting approach to songwriting and delicate vocal deliveries often draw comparisons to Beach House, Widowspeak, and The xx.

Growing up with a formal background in classical music, Crone first burrowed her way into the Peach State's indie scene as a teenager. She picked up drums, guitar, and bass early on, where she eventually discovered a distinct identity and connection to each instrument. With a drumming vocabulary more akin to the punk world and ambient guitar drenched in delay, the foundations for Bathe Alone were starting to crystallize.

After tinkering and fine tuning her sound even further, Crone enlisted the help of producer Damon Moon — who immediately recognized an untapped potential in the project. Within months they completed what would become Bathe Alone's debut LP, Last Looks. The 2021 album quickly caught fire and received praise from publications like Under The Radar, DittyTV, and more. Recently the team finished her sophomore full-length, Fall With The Lights Down — due out this summer via Kansas City label The Record Machine. With eyes fixed towards the future, Bathe Alone has a lot to look forward to.

Animals & Trees

Bathe Alone

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