The best Indie pop / rock tracks from April 2021. Full playlist at <a href="http://www.birp.fm/">www.birp.fm</a> // Updated monthly, so save your favorites!  Indie, Bedroom Pop, Lofi, Surf Rock, etc.

Indie Playlist • BIRP! April 2021

Cover of the 1982 hit Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant.

Electric Avenue

First single from the upcoming Robbing Millions album "Holidays Inside", to be released on June 25th via MGMT Records/[PIAS].

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"one thing's for certain" is the brand new single due for release on Last Night from Glasgow records on 14th May 2021.

Pre-order the band's new album "heaven by the back door" from - https://tinyurl.com/wojtekpreorder​

one thing's for certain

明るい不安　(Une anxiété lumineuse)
夢の先で　胸が締め付けられるのは
c'est parce que je sens la réalité.
If there's anything to lose, it's you.
誕生日おめでとう　Happy birthday, joyeux anniversaire
元気でいるかい　How are you doing?
J'ai manqué ce qui était important.
悩んでいるのもひとりじゃないから
あの日に帰りたいけど I want to go back to that day,
mais je ris en disant que c'est impossible.
それでいて進みたいゆるさでいる
Let's start what we should do now.
思い立ったら行動起こしても
I haven't accomplished anything great,
pourtant je me sens comme si j'avais travaillé, c'est moi.
My heart was out of oxygen, and I tried to suck yours.
罪人は僕だ　なんて思って
je me dis que dès demain, I'll offer you my own heart.
心を　ta joie, ton bonheur.
水をやって大きくなれ
Can a withered flower come back to life?
Juste la bonne quantité, just the right amount,
きっと新しい命を見つめてる

atmospheric, dreamy, synth-driven バラード

Fleurs d'anniversaire-誕生花-

Stand up bass by Dan Pappalardo
Produced and mixed by Sahil Ansari

Maybe

Yes it's weird!! But so am I and I like it. I hope you do too.

This tune came to me in shower whilst washing my arse. I had a sudden sharp pain in the back of my mouth. And that was the magical moment that the melody came to me from the songwriting fairies. The production is my representation of how it feels. 

Anyone suffering from wisdom teeth struggles, I'm here for you! X

OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO: https://youtu.be/pfinbXn9YY0

Thanks mum for the artwork x
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Wisdom Teeth

"Brooklyn's Russian Baths released their debut album back in 2019. A year later, they've returned to album standout "Responder" for an entirely new "Night" version of the song. Where the original is a dark, driving rock song, the new take is haunted, twinkling like the midnight sky, with skittering drums, melancholy piano and an open road's worth of atmosphere." ~ BrooklynVegan

Striving to control others (emotions, desire, behaviors) corrupts. This seems like a chronic symptom of the worst in masculinity.

A responder talks back, but does it listen? Not equipped with the tools to be vulnerable, one voice denies reality, refuses to connect, exerts more control, idolizing restraint ("the way I held every face card") and admonishing its counterpart ("you way you scolded me"). With denial (to self and other), all's bound to collapse. Both know it will happen. Neither wants it.

I guess it's also an exploration of the big 80s breakup love ballads of the Patty Smyth featuring Don Henley variation, but the dark sexual politics of the heartbreak are more explicit. This is the night version.

I was listening to a lot of the xx and Sinead O'Connor when we wrote it and when re-recording it, I was listening to PJ Harvey almost exclusively. I wonder if this bleeds into the atmosphere.
credits
released February 5, 2021
Russian Baths are Jess Rees & Luke Koz

Keys ~ Jade Shames
Drums ~ Daniel Gallardo

Mixed by James Frazee

Russian Baths - "Responder (Night)"

Released on Wednesday 24th February via SAM Records

Bandit - Peppermints Don't Hide Everything

Happy

"Stationary Life" by Palma Louca

Lyrics:
Who are we? 
In this stationary life
Collide, divide, decide who you are
Blue screen beams 
Another sleepless night 
Surprise surprise
Defy who you are 

All we want to today is anything that'll take our minds away
If you don't live now then you won't live forever 
Moving through the open space, we hope and pray, we'll find something to say
If you don't live now then you won't live forever

I hope you know, it's going to start to fall apart, like pieces, of paper, in the rain
Oh, when it's over, and you wake up at the start
Do you fear it?
Can you feel it?
In the flames 

Green screen dreams
And a silicone wife
You try and try to hide who you are 
Smoke screen screams
On the eve of the fight 
The lies the lies 
Define who you are 


All we want to today is anything that'll take our minds away
If you don't live now then won't live forever 
Moving through the open space, we hope and pray, we'll find something to say
If you don't live now then you won't live forever

I hope you know, it's going to start to fall apart, like pieces, of paper, in the rain.
Oh, when it's over, and you wake up at the start
Do you fear it?
Can you feel it? 
In the flames

Stationary Life

Palma Louca - Stationary Life

“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

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Gracie Gray - alienlover
Releases: March 26th 2021
Format: Digital
Cat.No: TTRS-048

Written by Anna Grace Gray
Produced and recorded by Gracie Gray in her bedroom in Highland Park, CA
Mixed by Gracie Gray and Jacob Williams
Vocals, guitars, synths, percussion by Gracie
Drums and engineering for drums, synths, organ by Michael DeLuccia
Mastered by Daniel Eaton at Little Castle Mastering

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Release date:
26 March 2021
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