The best new indie releases in March on one playlist for your convenience. As the month progresses, more tracks will be added. Be ahead of the curve - next year's indie darlings are on this list, probably...

Mar 19 - new tracks for indie lovers

Track from Barren Harvest's album Subtle Cruelties

Claw And Feather

WSR146 - Beverly Kills - Sunset Drive.

Released 2024-04-26 on Welfare Sounds & Records. 

Recorded by Per Stålberg & Kalle Lilja at Welfare Studios. 
Mixed by Per Stålberg. 
Mastered by Magnus Lindberg.
Artwork by Cecilia Vårhed.

Sunset Drive

It’s time for another debutant at Jansen Plateproduksjon, and we’re proud of presenting Hajk as the newest member of our family. The Oslo band have so far released three singles, and their de-but album will finally be let loose on the masses during spring 2017.

But relax, there will be more music from the band before that time. Their single «Common Sense» have been played at various radio stations during the past months, and the band are finally ready to release their new single, the “complete” pop song, «Magazine».

Considering that they’re such a fresh band, Hajk have been surprisingly quick to adjust them-selves. Not long after they entered the door to their rehearsal space, they played at Slottsfjellfesti-valen, Øyafestivalen and by:Larm. They were listed on radio before they left the stage at those festivals, and now they’re here – with a brand-new record contract and a brace of songs that any band would be jealous of. 

Hajk are fronted by Preben Sælid Andersen and Sigrid Aase, who share the vocals. Musical-ly, Hajk are situated in a modern pop/rock landscape, with an emphasis on very strong melodies. The band are influenced by artists like Dirty Projectors, Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Amason, but still they stand firmly on their own feet, with an original sound that also challenges the genre they belong to. 

«Magazine» is a pop song that we guarantee you will hum along to from now on. Mark my words.

Released by Jansen Plateproduksjon on 4 November.

Nothing Left To Say

Magazine

Hajk - Magazine (single)

Band of Gold are back, and they continue where their debut album left off. After their success the last time, it would have been easy to lose the feeling of freedom that made its mark on both the recording and the music. But it was never a risk that this would happen here. Quite the reverse. The band went into the studio and did just what they wanted, and the collaboration between Nina Mortvedt and Nikolai Hængsle Eilertsen, AKA the core of Band of Gold, works best when they do just what they lilke.

When Band of Gold released their debut album in autumn 2015, they were a pleasant surprise for many people. Both Nina and Nikolai have spent a long time on the Norwegian music scene, but this was a project they’d worked on in the quiet. When the album was released, though, it was no doubt that this was a band that had the right to live. The positive reviews were many, the fans flocked to their concerts, and the whole thing peaked when they won the Nordic Music Prize during by:Larm 2016, as the first Norwegian artist ever.

But now Band of Gold are no longer a secret. Now there are expectations. And they have been fulfilled.

«Where’s the Magic» is the band’s second album – an album about the passion we all seek and crave for. It’s not hard to find passion in Band of Gold’s songs. It’s on every chord here, and we get a ferocity that the debut album from 2015 didn’t have. On «I Wanna Dance With You Again», the first single from «Where’s the Magic», Mortvedt’s vocals are admirable, and underneath its lovely arrangement we find a pop song that’s completely irresistible.

But the album doesn’t just have grand pop songs. «Where’s the Magic» also contains experimental songs that challenge the listeners, ballads so beautiful that they will bring tears to your eyes, and slow pop songs that will force you to play the album again.

A rock solid sequel, from a band that’s better than ever.

Band of Gold - I Wanna Dance With You Again

Is it blues? Is it world music? Is it underground pop? You can choose whichever you want, it’s not important for Orions Belte to be pigeonholed. They’re playing instrumental music inspired by Nigerian 70’s rock, postcards from the French Riviera, Formula One races at the Monza track in Italy, and when Joe Frazier beat Muhammad Ali in the ‘Fight of the Century’ in 1971. Eclectic and unique – are you able to “hear” how it sounds?

Øyvind Blomstrøm and Chris Holm mainly make a living out of being on the road with other bands, and they’re almost always traveling from town to town, country to country. When their roads crossed for the umpteenth time in 2016, their mutual dream of starting an instrumental project was finally underway. Holm’s companion from the Bergen scene, Kim Åge Furuhaug, wanted to join in on the fun, and then Orions Belte was born. 

Their debut album «Mint» is founded on old traditions but still feels new, and you’ll have to look for a long time to find anything like it. Texas band Khruangbin may be the best comparison as per today, but Orions Belte really belongs in their own galaxy. A galaxy where they are the soundtrack to movies that haven’t been made yet, where landscapes are colored and where the trio does just what they want to, the way they want to do it. 

The result is «Mint», an album filled with songs that fit as easily into street parties in Oslo and London, as in private casinos in Paris and night clubs in Lagos. Orions Belte, a small piece of the world from Norway.

Preorder album here: https://jansenrecords.com/s/mintpreorder

Atlantic Surfing

Fun to lie

Fun To Lie

The Coathangers 'The Devil You Know'
Out March 8th, 2019 via Suicide Squeeze Records.

The Devil You Know

Step Back

from the new album 'Act Surprised,' out 5/24 on Dangerbird Records.

Pre-order / Pre-save: smarturl.it/Sebadoh

Sebadoh - celebrate the void

Wet Dreams were consummated in an Oslo basement, when Death By Unga Bunga frontman Sebastian Ulstad Olsen had conceived a few bastard songs he did not know what to do with. The songs grew into a fast and scruffy EP, released in the summer of 2017 – and now the self-titled debut album is finally here.

Wet Dreams is a punk rock/garage group from Oslo consisting of members from FOAMMM, Warp Riders, De Marvells as well as the aforementioned Death By Unga Bunga. They played one of their first ever concerts at Norway’s biggest festival, Øya in 2017, and bookers both at home and internationally have been hounding them ever since. Thus far in 2018, they have played festivals in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. Following the album release the band will tour Norway, Europe and the US. 

Wet Dreams recorded the album by themselves with help from Terje Vea Torkellsen (Mats Wawa, Geetar), while Øystein Braut (Electric Eye, Dig Deeper, Soft Ride, Low Frequency in Stereo) did the mix, birthing an album of gritty, aggressive and ultra catchy punk rock n roll.

The record is about being – or trying to be – “larger than life” and to conceal one’s own insecurities. The collection of songs might come across as a massive discharge of masculinity, but if you pay attention to the lyrics, the understanding is that we’re all just humans with the same basic needs and desires. 

The Wet Dream-song “I Can Fly” will be featured in an upcoming episode of the American TV show “War Games”.

Wet Dreams - Radioactivity

Rare Candy by Ember Oceans

Produced and Mixed by Freddy Tyler Paul
Artwork by Louie Capozzoli
Mastered at Gravity Studios

Lyrics:

I know who owns Studio 54
Come with me and we’ll get in the backdoor
Order golden Cadillacs up at the bar
Comeback and you’re cheating on me 
With a movie star

Got plenty of chances
If I just keep dancing
I wanna be on their level
I need that

Rare candy 
To stay up till It's dawn
At the center of attention
It's a different kind of fun

No need to be romantic
When the bass guitar is blasting
I wanna be on their level

I need that rare candy

Feeling pretty good now
I'm just here to have a good time
It's a different kind of fun
At the center of attention, yeah

Would you want to come back to my place
You’re the picture perfect model for my next painting

Lets get abstract before I get sidetracked
Small talk singles aren’t a part of my contract 

No control over my actions
Somethings starting to happen
I wanna be on their level

I need that rare candy

Feeling pretty good now
I'm just here to have a good time
It's a different kind of fun
At the center of attention, yeah

Tryna keep up tryna wake up stay 
Tryna walk straight tryna taste this flavor
Runnin low but it'll get me through tomorrow

Tryna keep up tryna wake up stay up
tryna walk straight while I taste this flavor
Running low but it'll get me through tomorrow

Tryna keep up tryna wake up stay up
tryna walk straight while I taste this flavor

Now I'm feeling pretty good now
Yea I'm never comin' downdowndowndowndown
I'm feelin' pretty good right now
Yea I feel it yea, I feel it

Feeling pretty good now
I'm just here to have a good time
It's a different kind of fun
At the center of attention, yeah

Rare Candy

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What you say to me
now, you take it all back, and you're sending me
Dancing in my mind,
Atmosphere evaporates mine, I embrace it
Integrate this state of your mind I can't take it.

I see you there, you're always
dancing in my brain
You don't know
It takes hold
Exhale the thoughts that have been
eating you away
Just let go
Let it all go.

What you say to me
now, you take it all back, and you're sending me
Dancing in my mind,
Atmosphere evaporates mine, I embrace it
Integrate this state of your mind I can't take it.

You see it
Even if your heads not in it
Can you feel it all soak?
Electricity flows

and now you're sending me west
You're racking my brain
And you're sending me dancing in my mind,
Atmosphere evaporates mine, I embrace it
Integrate this state of your mind, I can't take it.

Have you been feeling these thoughts in your mind?
Cos' i've been feeling these thoughts in my mind,
I see you opening up in my mind,
I see you taking control in my mind.

Oh i'll say what you want me to say,
Oh how do you make me feel this way,
Oh I'll say what you want me to say,
I cant be who you want me to.

Colours

With styles ranging from funk bangers to Latin American psychedelia to more low-key ethereal moods, this collection of songs will make you think of legends like Todd Rundgren and Marcos Valle one moment, and contemporaries like James Blake and Thundercat the next. 

Channelling everything from Jon Lord and Dr. John-type organ action in indie rock band The Switch, to carrying the torch for fans of Sun Ra and galactic jazz music as the frontman of Dr. Kay and His Interstellar Tone Scientists, Arthur Kay has been a prominent figure on the Oslo music scene for a decade. A sought-after musician, his impressive versatility is further validated through his touring commitments with acclaimed Norwegian rapper Ivan Ave, and instrumental psychedelics Orions Belte.

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Wet Dreams - Radioactivity

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