An eclectic playlist that starts off small and captures the coolest indie tracks being released throughout the month of April.

April 19 - new tracks for indie lovers

Out 3rd May on digital +  limited 7" (250 copies) - http://speedywunderground.com/shop/

SW028 - Tiña - I Feel Fine

Music and lyrics by Allan and Barb Vest
Produced and recorded by Allan Vest
Mixed by Allan Vest and Wes Sharon at 115 Recording
Mastered by Wes Sharon at 115 Recording
Artwork by Grant Fuhst

Songs for Birds and Bats

Ladder for the People

Performed by: Los Tones 
Recored & Mixed by: Wade Keighran 
Mastered by: Jonathan Boulet 
Artwork: Phill Trick 
Design: Lehi Curtis

Manipulation

LAUNCH FLY LAND

Insomniac

The Dandelion Sydney, Australia 60's garage legends announce their 4th album. "Old Habits & New Ways" thedandelion.bandcamp.com Available April 2019 on deluxe cassette tape by SpiderChild Records- Austin, TX USA https://spiderchildrecords.bandcamp.com/album/old-habits-new-ways-of-the-dandelion 
Colored Vinyl from https://www.blackspin.gr/.

Old Habits & New Ways

Message From The Fire

Message From The Fire - The Dandelion

Making Trouble

Rat Fancy - Making Trouble

For the uninitiated, Mammoth Penguins are a 3-piece indie pop powerhouse, showcasing the songwriting and vocal talents of Emma Kupa (Standard Fare, The Hayman Kupa Band) backed up by the noisiest rhythm section in indie pop
Their first album, Hide and Seek, was released with the much-loved and sorely missed Fortuna Pop! in 2015. Stand-out tracks ‘Strength In My Legs’ and ‘When I Was Your Age’ were picked up by BBC 6Music and Radio X, and the band played a live session for Marc Riley the following year.

But Mammoth Penguins didn’t want to stop there.  Their follow-up release John Doe in 2017 was an ambitious concept album, exploring the feelings of loss and anger at a man who fakes his own death, only to return years later. It featured contributions from Haiku Salut’s Sophie Barkerwood and Alto 45’s Joe Bear, and expanded well beyond the 3-piece rock‘n’roll template, with washes of strings, synths and samples (field recordings of butter being scraped on toast, photocopiers, and Ramsgate beach helping to fully immerse the listener in the world the band have created) filling out and developing Kupa’s songwriting.

Having had their ‘and now for something completely different’ moment, the band have brought that ambition and expanded palette to the production of this new release. The sound is big, bold and confident—with layers of guitars, backing vocals and keys all adding extra muscle—but maintaining Emma’s candid, heartfelt, confessional style of songwriting, and the jubilant power pop hooks that made the first record so special.  

This time around, classic themes of love, loss and conflict are (mostly) given a hopeful and optimistic spin that opposition is neither inevitable nor hopeless. For musical comparisons, think Land of Talk, and Philadelphia bands such as Swearin and Hop Along, but Kupa’s insight into the everyday and her ability to pen such relatable and honest missives means that, often, the best comparison for Mammoth Penguins’ music is with your own past.

“Like a lot of songwriters, my songs are derived from my own personal experiences, thoughts and feelings, long lived or fleeting. The times when people have said my lyrics resonate with them or articulate something specific for them are extremely validating for me and I hope that happens with this album. Arranging the songs with Mark and Tom is a massive buzz and playing them live as a band feels exciting and fantastic. Having Joe and Faith put their mark on the songs was also a massive privilege. When we’re working on a new song it gets to a point where we just want to keep repeatedly playing it over and over. However, making a record can be an extremely slow and drawn out process that requires patience, perseverance and resilience, and because of that we are super excited and proud to be releasing this album.” Emma Kupa, Mammoth Penguins.

There's No Fight We Can't Both Win

Mammoth Penguins - You Just Carry On

textile workers (shapes on tape remix)

a. harlana - "textile workers" (shapes on tape remix)

BIKES s/t LP (SNATCH093)

Parking Lot Tour April 2019
06.04.2019 DE - Berlin, An Der Autobahn RECORD RELEASE SHOW
17.04.2019 ES - Barcelona, Metereo Club
18.04.2019 ES - Valencia, Magazine Club
19.04.2019 ES - Castellon, Rockstar
20.04.2019 ES - Alicante, La Pacheca
11.06.2019 BE - Brussels, Madame Moustache w./ FLAMIN GROOVIES (!!)
22.06.2019 DE - Leipzig, Zxrx
06.07.2019 DE - Hamburg, Komet

BIKES - Killing Time

Harvest is the debut single taken from the stunning debut LP 'Ascension'. A video to accompany the single is available now on both Vevo and Youtube. 
pre-orders are live now through the FatCat website. 
Samana recorded and produced both the LP and the video and had this to say about Harvest: 

'Harvest is the outcome of a social experiment, filmed over the duration of two hours, designed to explore and capture one of the fundamental concepts behind the album Ascension; the transitioning between one plain of consciousness to another. With dance being one the most primitive forms of human behaviour, we created a musical environment that shifted between five notions. Orchestrated with the intention of removing each individual from their bodies, from time and from their conscious state of awareness, to a state of catharsis and transcendence, we documented the language of movement that became the immediate dialogue of their subconscious, and in turn, witnessed the collective ascension of the group to pass into an altered state; a higher frequency and dimension of being and energy'

Pre-order

Samana - Harvest

First track off the Brick Brick - Chip 4 Chip cassette! Out on Eternal Soundcheck (ESC007) in early May.

Brick Brick are the songs of Heidi (Bent, Scaredy Snake) backed up by the rhythm section of Phoebe (CDIQ) and Matt (Kitchen's Floor).

The tape was recorded by Mitch on 4 track at Phoebe's house in Newmarket.  Total Brisbane, total brick rock.  Eternal Soundcheck 2019. 

http://eternalsoundcheck.bandcamp.com
http://www.facebook.com/eternalsoundcheck

Chip 4 Chip

Brick Brick - Secret Problem

From Dehd's new album 'Water' out May 10th on Fire Talk

Pre Order: firetalkrecs.com/shop/dehdwater
Watch the Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEGUxq2uMFA

Spotify: spoti.fi/2Nh879I
Apple Music: apple.co/2TYjTs9

Love is everyday magic. That’s the impression you get listening to Water, the new album by Chicago trio Dehd. Veterans of Chicago’s increasingly fruitful DIY scene Jason Balla ( Ne-Hi and Earring) Emily Kempf (Vail and formerly with Lala Lala) and drummer Eric McGrady share a strange and inexplicable chemistry. Love rises up into the atmosphere like steam off a summer sidewalk and makes you wild. Love breaks your heart and you consider yourself lucky for it. Like water itself, it surrounds us, it supports us; it’s what we’re made of. It takes the shape of its container. The music is hazy and reverb-drenched, a scuzzy and hyped-up take on surf rock that could only come from the Third Coast. It’s all animated by the red-lining feel-good spirit of the Velvet Underground’s Loaded and the breezy melodicism of C86-era indie rock, with a dash of the Cramps’ spooky-hop bop courtesy of McGrady’s locomotive drumming.It’s a clear-eyed look at the wild nature of everyday life that’s been spun up in sugary sweet melodies and scratched-crystal sounds. More than anything, it’s the embodiment of Dehd’s m.o. from the start: As Kempf puts it, “Work with what you have and make it magical.”

Water

Dehd - On My Side

VIRVON VARVON "MIND CANCER" PRE-ORDER
https://girlsville.bandcamp.com/album/virvon-varvon-mind-cancer

MASTERED BY PATRICK HAIGHT
ARTWORK BY @deuteromali ON INSTAGRAM

VIRVON VARVON - RADICAL

VIRVON VARVON "MIND CANCER" PRE-ORDER
girlsville.bandcamp.com/album/virvon-…n-mind-cancer

MASTERED BY PATRICK HAIGHT
ARTWORK BY @deuteromali ON INSTAGRAM

VIRVON VARVON - MIND CANCER (DEMO)

From the backstreets of Long Jetty, four close friends decided to put aside their kids, businesses and studies for one night a week to jam in a garage. Pussy In The Dark combines nostalgic synth sounds with astral folk vocals to create something you could describe as 'Aussie Dream Pop'.

Download 'Wild' on Unearthed: www.triplejunearthed.com/artist/pussy-dark

Produced by Pepa Knight
Mixed by Jean Gallows
Mastered by Andrew Edgson @ Studios 301

Facebook: www.facebook.com/pitdmusic
Instagram: www.instagram.com/pvssyinthedark

Wild - Pussy In The Dark

Pretty Sick - Telephone

This is a true story. Five Stars is an ode to online shoppers — one in particular, who positively reviews every-single-thing she buys on Amazon. How much can you learn about a person from their shopping history? Are we defined by the material things we choose to possess? Five Stars is out today — the third single to be taken from My Pleasure's new EP, Three Singles and a Bonus Track, which will be released on May 17th 2019.

Three Singles and a Bonus Track EP

Five Stars

MY PLEASURE — Five Stars

GB - 157 - GEE TEE / Satanic Togas - split - 7" ep

2 new tracks for Gee Tee vs 2 tracks of Satanic Togas 
Do you want to know who wins? .. You!!
buy this 7" or cry!!

"super charged for the teenage sewer mutants "

!!!!Punk /Raw/R'n'R /Lo-Fi!!!!

(limited to 250) 

1 cover art 250 copies   Black and White

SATANIC TOGAS - Electro Static Rock N' Roll  -

Meanderthal

New single from Shit Girlfriend, Dress Like Cher 7" out on April 13 as a Record Store Day UK exclusive.

www.facebook.com/PNKSLM/

Shit Girlfriend - "Dress Like Cher"

Sharing unsigned & small label indie gems, mostly - especially post-punk and new wave.

Musically speaking, it feels as if me and Steve Lamacq were separated at birth. To me anyway, not sure if he feels the same. What we do share is a passion for discovering new music - though since his semi-retirement Emily Pilbeam has taken that mantle I think.

Punk, post-punk, new wave, garage, alternative rock, dream pop, electronica, reggae, psychedilia, folk, surf, blues and classic soul: if it has an indie vibe or beautiful vocals I'm there for it.

Reached limit for following, can't follow back but message me with new indie tracks you think I should listen to.

April 19 - new tracks for indie lovers

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