Indie Pop

From the upcoming record 'Tides End' out August 6th on Captured Tracks, worldwide.

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MINKS // Margot

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VERSE
You did it over the phone 
But I don’t blame you since you’re in New York
We could blame it on time zones
But I can tell you see me as a chore

PRE
You can’t ignore any longer
Every call is a bother
So you’re finally caving in

CHORUS 
Ooo
To tell me LA’s too far
To tell me the wait’s too hard
You forget me every day
When I’m a coast away

To tell me we’ll still be friends
When we finally get over things
I might not be the one  
But I’m still someone you loved

POST
Give me the tracking number
For the stuff I left last summer  
Save you some minutes of your day

So you can finish
Watching How I Met Your Mother
Yeah go ‘head and keep my password
Guess I’ll never know how it all ended

VERSE  
Over the phone
Said we’d talk about it when we both got home

Feels kinda informal
But this wasn’t how this shit was supposed to go
And we all know

PRE
That life’s getting harder 
Like your lungs filled with water
So you’re finally caving in

CHORUS
Ooo
To tell me LA’s too far
To tell me the wait’s too hard
You forget me everyday
When I’m a coast away

To tell me we’ll still be friends
When we finally get over things
I might not be the one
But I’m still someone you loved

POST 
Give me the tracking number
For the stuff I left last summer  
Save you some minutes of your day

So you can finish
Watching How I Met Your Mother
Yeah go ‘head and keep my password
Guess I’ll never know how it all ended

OUTRO
Over the phone
Over the phone
Over the phone
Yeah, it all ended
Over the phone
Over the phone
Over the phone

Song Credits:
Written by Maria Delilah Brao, Matthew James Hemmer and Justin Lucas
Performed by Delilah Brao
Produced by Justin Lucas
Mixed by Philip Etherington
Mastered by Joe Lambert
Artwork/Canvas by Whitney Otte
Acoustic Guitar - Jon Walter

Over The Phone

Day after day winding your way through the hills of grave reminders of those yesterdays
And after a day or two of wondering who… you’ll find, faces calling you back to a better time

Now and again, fear creeping in, riding out an average Monday on the metro line 
Your station passes by buying you time, time staring out the window at another life

Sink or swim, they tossed you in the deep end when all you wanted was cup of tea, some stability
A paint by number nicely ordered life, sometimes blue or green staying well within the lines  

Right as rain, stepping off the train and into a night alive with bright and shiny things saved normally for dreams
Taking the wrong way home, no one will mind, because no ones home these days, they’ve been away now, for a while

One… Two… Three... GO

We can take it all in stride
[Everybody's lost somebody]
And we will meet on the other side
[People come and go]
Take your pain let it make you stronger
Add your fear to make you feel alive

[Round and round and]
[Always around and around and around we go]
[Survey the grounds and note the highs and the lows]
Something’s in bloom but god only knows

So softly the wind blows through my window
Step outside to free my mind
A light in the night sky
A meteor flyby 
Catches my eye…
Record, Play, Rewind

We can take it all in stride
[Everybody's lost somebody]
And we will meet on the other side
[Everybody knows]
Take your pain let it make you stronger
Add your fear to make you feel alive

We can take it all in stride
[What'll I do without the daily routine, painting by numbers the blues and the greens]
And we will meet on the other side
[Survey the grounds and note the highs and the lows, something's in bloom but god only knows]
Take your pain let it wash away like tears in rain under a fearless sky

Record, Play, Rewind

Niche Crush - Every Text Is Like A Little Letter EP
Release Date 10/11/23 via My Band’s Better 


“Fantastically Indie” - Steve Lamacq, 6 Music 

“Every song is a winner. I think they're great and they live up to their name. Niche Crush, they could well be our Niche Crush.” 
John Kennedy, Radio X


Niche Crush are Ollie & Loz. a Manc and a Scouser now living by the sea in Margate. They formed in late 2021 after drinking too many bottles of orange WKD and deciding it would be a good idea to start a band and play a gig at a spoken word event in Merthyr Tydfil, in Wales. We don’t know why or how this was allowed to happen but it did, the gig went well and they got asked back to do another one! They quite like Merthyr Tydfil and the people of Merthyr Tydfil seemed to like them too. Buoyed on by these rather successful, but rather ill advised gigs (Merthyr Tydfil is a long, long way from Margate), they’ve since been busy sat in a bedroom in Margate drinking more orange WKD, writing and recording music and this summer saw them play a whole host of gigs outside of Wales including London, Manchester and numerous shows in Margate.

They have about 48 songs so far, and yes, they are all named after people. People they love, people they hate, some are real and some are fake. It’s probably a bad idea to start a new band with such a silly concept but hey, why not?

Every Text Is A Little Letter is a collection of 3 of those songs and is the band’s first offering to the world after much procrastination. All recorded in their bedroom and we think it sounds boss!

Simon is about a chap called Simon and is based on teenage lyrics found in the loft. Romeo is named after Romeo Stodart off of the Magic Numbers but has nothing to do with him, they just liked the name. Gareth is actually about their friend Gareth, he’s actually a lovely chap and frankly they’re really worried about him ever hearing it…

What does the future hold for Niche Crush? We’re guessing 2024 will see more more orange WKD drunk, more songs written, recorded and released. They're busy booking more gigs atm and finishing up the mixes of EP2 and EP3!

Oh and ideally they’d like someone to like them, give them gigs, play them on radio and then get a massive fuck off (or even a teeny weeny) record deal, failing that some free bottles of orange WKD would be nice…

Romeo

Texasman is about the past - about youth and its tendency to slip away. The song concerns the time I lived in Austin with an indie pop band. We were living far away from home with big plans and dreams. The Texas man in the song is the one and only Willie Nelson.
-Sig

desert house
big city dreams down the highway
cats in crowds
chris and caro are gone today
so we lay out
with the scorpions in the burweed
close our eyes
dream a life

evening sun
you feel it well past 9 o clock
two bedrooms
packed with all 5 of us
morning heat
good morning another day to believe

texasman
texasman
I’m looking up at your highlights
down here pining the spotlight
truth is love
the truth is on the other side
I still can’t reach
still some dull shade of green

coolest crush
I’d ever seen
coolest cuzz
don’t turn back on me
that youthful buzz mmm
oh come back to me

credits
released October 27, 2023
Vocals, Guitar: Sig Wilder
Artwork: Mads Taylor
Bass, Drums, Keys, & Mixing: Philip Zach at The Grid Studio
Mastering: Joshua Llewellyn at Downbeat Mastering
Co-written by Sig Wilder & Ruby Leonard

Many thanks to Adam, Kg, Collin, Sami and Zech for those formative years. Also to Kei Heke, Adrianna Miranda, Ella Davies, Floyd Graham, Clark Roworth, Taylor Nixon and Willie Nelson for helping this song along its journey.

Texasman

Lyrics:
I’m thinking about things 
That won’t ever actually happen 
Just lifetimes and moments 
That are only in my head
Nothing that actually 
Lives outside my body 
I’ve done so much 
Today inside my mind 
I can’t seem to get me 
To do anything exciting 
Except for visiting 
Planets and stars far beyond me 

That I’ll never step foot on
That I’ll never step foot on

My eyes have bags beneath them 
Though I’m not going to bed soon 
Even though I’m nodding off 
I think I’m obsessed with my thoughts 

I just sit in my room absorbed in thought
I'm tired of my brain that won't stop
And my body that won't do what it's told
Nothing like running thoughts 
That don't really do much but keep me up

What’d they mean by that 
How did they do this 
What’s up with these fits 
Whose home am I in 
Who the hell did this 
Was that really me
Can I be dismissed 
Is it almost over

Running Thoughts

New acoustic cover. Lana Del Rey's "Chemtrails Over The Country Club" 

Beautiful Instrumental by Bloom/Pool

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Chemtrails Over The Country Club (Lana Del Rey Cover)

In shadows cast by his conscience
He hides
The dual embrace of regrets
And lies

A symphony of contrition
Repeats
His senses grind to a halt
As he leaps

Is he 4 Real?
Yes he can view the world with wide open eyes
Is he 4 Real?
Yes he can be the child whose too raw to lie

All the beauty of devoted butterflies
They decorate the sky above the cherry blossom blanket

The Sakura bleeds
Bleeding pink and white
Bleeding pink and white
Bleeding pink and white to purge the demons out

Is he 4 real?
Is he 4 real?

He
A Cherry Blossom Tree
That stands to reason
Stands to reason

All the beauty of devoted butterflies
They decorate the sky above the cherry blossom blanket

The Sakura bleeds
Bleeding pink and white
Bleeding pink and white
Bleeding pink and white to purge the demons out

Sakura Bleeds

Live cover of Lana Del Rey's "Dealer" from her album "Blue Banisters" 🦋

Beautiful instrumental by Bloom/Pool 🎸

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Dealer (Lana Del Rey Cover)

Pelle Carlberg - I Love You, You Imbecile

If 1960‘s German singer Nico was reincarnated as the love child of Johnny Cash and 50‘s Doo-Wop in the 21st Century San Francisco Bay Area, that child would be Yea-Ming Chen. Behind her dusky tones, The Rumours round out this charming waltz about timeless love and loss with piano, acoustic guitars, accordion and a chorus of back-up singers. The simple tune compliments and lays bare the heartbreak in the lyrics. Melancholy but danceable, Yea-Ming and The Rumours put a sweet spin on this breakup song that anyone who has loved and lost will connect with. 

Written by Yea-Ming Chen and Christian Andres Garcia
Produced by Yea-Ming Chen

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Copyright 2015 Yea-Ming and The Rumours
Published 2015 Lilystars Records


Sign On My Window - Yea-Ming and The Rumours

A winter song from 'Above Duffle Farm' featuring the brilliant Paperplain. http://www.facebook.com/HelenPaperplain

Buy 'ABOVE DUFFLE FARM' at www.windmill.bandcamp.com


https://www.facebook.com/WindmillMusic

Written and Recorded by Matthew Thomas Dillon 
© 2011-2013 Matthew Thomas Dillon/ Windmill 

Windmill - 'Jelly Globe'

Blouse // A Feeling Like

The new single and title track from Cub Scouts second EP. 

Paradise single released July 19th - EP out August 2nd.


Paradise

dream pop
synthpop
folk
80s electro
funk/ disco
hooreyy

LILYSTARS RECORDS is an independent record label based in Manila, Philippines dedicated to Indie (Pop/Rock/Electronic and its derivative) Music. Determined to house significant local and international indie artists and connect them to the world and beyond where music lovers are most receptive to its aesthetics and sensibility.

Sign On My Window - Yea-Ming and The Rumours

Lilystars Records

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