Fresh Indie 2021

recorded in collaboration with Duff Thompson and Bill Howard at Mashed Potato Records' studio

Please Hold On

Some Things Remain - Remix

Drill

Lyrics:
There we go, the silent night embraces
Like an old friend, familiar and kind
But with every breath another light dissolves the harmony of heartache
Then suddenly the shadows of the room are filling up your mind

But don’t you let them in
Cause even though a little sorrow can liberate us all
You shouldn’t let them win
We’ll find a way how you can brighten the dark days after all

A crowded room, but in your head you’re lonely
And a choir of thoughts distorts into white noise

But don’t you let them in
Cause even though a little sorrow can liberate us all
You shouldn’t let them win
We’ll find a way how you can brighten the dark days after all

You never notice at all, the love you’re surrounded with
The loneliness won’t fade



Music by Roos Meijer & Javièr den Leeuw
Lyrics by Roos Meijer
Drums by Quinten de Jongh
Bass & bass synth by Javièr den Leeuw
Keys, guitars, percussion & backing vocals by Anne Lieke Heusinkveld
Guitar by Sam van Hoogstraten
Guitar & vocals by Roos Meijer
Production by Anne Lieke Heusinkveld
Mix by Anne Lieke Heusinkveld & Jesse Koch
Master by Wessel Oltheten
Artwork by Michiel Mutsaerts

Harmony Of Heartache

Find the Light (The Brilliance Edit)

Written and performed by Danica Dora
Produced by Kai Welch and Danica Dora
Mixed by Dan Molad
Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound

Real Thing

Thoughts from Home

Colchester-based four piece, Anorak Patch, whose drummer is just 14 years old burst onto the scene last year with their debut singles, ‘Beans’ & ‘6 Week Party’, the latter of which making the BBC 6Music Playlist.

Keyboardist Effie Lawrence formed the group in late 2019 with high school friends Luca Ryland (drums) & brother Oscar (guitar), along with bass player Eleanor Helliwell and have been quick to announce themselves into the UK music scene with national airplay and press. ‘Irate’ continues to showcase the band’s immense musical talent at such a young age, the new cut which Draws inspiration from Queens of The Stone Age, System Of A Down & Black Midi, offers yet another side to the bands songwriting & recordings and marks them as one of the UK’s most exciting, young bands to emerge in recent times.

The band wrote Irate during the first lockdown, it displays how they felt as a collective. Effie and Oscar had just had their exams cancelled and their confusion is reflected in the lyric “what is in your head” this also aims to show how people were doing a lot of self reflection at this time.

The song shows how the band’s everyday lives were changed by the pandemic. “he takes a break from a world he loves” is referring to playing and going to gigs, something the band missed very much this year.

Anorak Patch are: Effie Lawrence, Vocals and keyboards. Eleanor Helliwell,Bass. Oscar Ryland, Guitar. Luca Ryland, Drums and Vocals

Irate

Anorak Patch - Irate

A longtime advocate of mental health awareness, Folklaur gets vulnerable and honest in "Seasonal" about the monotony of her depression and how it shifts form throughout the year and at different stages of relationships. This indie-folk song, with a hint of pop, features soothing vocals and glimmering guitars, closing out the album on an optimistic note. Although written in 2019, the song takes a new personal meaning for Folklaur and her brother, producer Justin Scott, after their father died by suicide in March. 2020 has been unimaginable on all accounts, but Folklaur reminds herself as much as others: "If I lived through it, then I will live through this." This song is an anthem to survival and the rebirth that can follow.

Lyrics by Lauren Elizabeth
Music by Lauren Elizabeth & Justin Scott

Lauren Elizabeth: vocals
Justin Scott: guitar, bass, synth
Zack Levine: drums

Produced by Justin Scott Amrhein
Mixed by Brian di Meglio of Cannon Found Soundation
Mastering by Toshihisa Tsuruoka of Saidera Mastering

Seasonal

Alma Page

Lyrics by @charlielyttle. 
Produced by Charlie Lyttle and Zubin Kirpalani. 
Additional vocals by Aiyana Echols, Jennifer Johnson, and Ciara Brewer.
Bass by Devin Stuzin.
Mastered by Jake Cheriff.

March 3, 2019. 
AB004

Charlie Lyttle - Fear The Night

Hey, what’s the matter baby?
Are you stuck, warring in your head again
So afraid, you’ll maybe make a mistake
So you’re drifting off, lookin out your window in vain 

Pre
Life’s beyond your walls,
We all learn someday somehow you Can’t stand if you won’t fall

Chorus 1
It’s all outside your window, 
So come on, come on
And You’re feeling sentimental
But the moments gone 
Don’t slip inside your slow-mo
Replays of went wrong
When it’s all outside your window
So come on, come on

Verse 2
Hey, what if I could tell you
That the rules, of life are never written down
And you don’t, don’t even need permission
So dive head first, dive head first


C2
It’s all outside your window, 
So come on, come on
And You’re feeling sentimental
But the moments gone 
Don’t slip inside your slow-mo
Replays of went wrong
When it’s all outside your window
So come on, come on

Bridge 
Cant seem to get outta bed
running all around your head

Waiting for a voice to say
There’s an answer, Go this way 

But it just keeps saying 

It’s all outside your window
It’s all outside your window
It’s all outside your, all outside your, all outside your, it’s all outside your

Chorus 3

It’s all outside your window, 
So come on, come on
And You’re feeling sentimental
But the moments gone 
Don’t slip inside your slow-mo
Replays of went wrong
When it’s all outside your window
So come on, come on

Your Window

The third single from The Crystal Casino Band set for release January 29th.

Waste My Time

slow down

“Resistance,” the 2nd single from Yo Kinky’s debut EP (out 02/28/21), finds the duo exploring a more delicate yet simultaneously strong and confident mood. With Unish’s spaced-out, rockabilly-tinged guitar bouncing through the song’s driving, hypnotic layers of sound, they paint a sonic landscape that yearns for much-needed intimacy in a time of social distancing and isolation. As Wight’s vocals float above the surface, singing “Love is all we breathe” and “Swing me off my feet,” she transports the listener to places of rich yet strange beauty. “Resistance” alludes to keeping sanity amidst chaos with the warm and hopeful delivery of “Sight got back/I feel different/A flicker in the distance,” and finding contentment from the small things in life: “Everybody’s just around the corner now/Everything I need is just a short walk down the street.” This follow-up is sure to leave listeners with a sense of triumph against all odds.

Resistance

I wrote this song about finding happiness in the simpler things during lockdown. Hope you like it!

Amy FitGerald - Happy

Written and sung by Max Helgemo, Juliet Sunflower, and Andrew Goldring

Produced/mixed/mastered by Andrew Goldring

Aqueducts

Stream 'How Come?' : https://strayfossa.fanlink.to/howcome

Opposing artistic tastes, divergent creative processes and yet a shared obsession with melody define the Virginia-based indie band, Stray Fossa. Brothers, Nick and Will Evans, and childhood friend, Zach Blount, grew up writing music together. Numerous monikers, solo efforts and a six-year hiatus later, in 2018, the three dropped everything, moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, built a studio into the attic of their house and began crafting songs together again.

How Come?" is the first single off of our debut full-length record, planned for April 2021. The track was recorded in a single session in our attic studio (and home) in Charlottesville, Virginia and produced by Will Evans (drums/vocals). The song feels like “a warm cocoon of lo-fi chill-wave nostalgia” and a “heart-rending blend of garage rock and dream pop” with “consistently superb vocal deliveries throughout."

Stream

Stray Fossa - How Come?

A lighthearted song I wrote during a confusing time.

Fill

Golden Boy is the first single of off Poor Frisco's debut EP, "Sky of Gold".

Golden Boy

mp3hugger is one of the original indie music blogs, established in 2005 and based off the coast of Ireland.