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The best Indie songs from the third week of 2014

New Indie Songs of 2014 - Best of Week 3

MIDWEEK MUSIC CLUB JAN [2]

Indie Pop Rock

T-lo - indie

My remix of LEAVE, listen on some good headphones/speakers (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Thanks to the dude @paces for letting me give this a crack and Pilerats for premiering the track here:

http://pilerats.com/music/paces-leave-palace-remix/

Free Download

LEAVE (Palais Remix)

The first single from the upcoming MUNK album! (New album in spring 2014).
Mathias has been joined by 2 new singers for his new songs. One is MONA LAZETTE. London girl living in Berlin. 
If the original version with this crazy indian percussion middle part - doesn't catch you, you might like KOLOMBO's straight house version. Or the great SOCIAL DISCO CLUB remix. Check it out! For sure this is one of the catchiest tunes we released for a long time.

Munk feat. Mona Lazette - The Beat (Kolombo Remix) (excerpt)

The debut single from Boxed In is out now on limited edition 7" vinyl and download on the Moshi Moshi Singles Club! 

@boxedinuk

Get It Here

Boxed In - All Your Love Is Gone

“Epic.” - Popjustice
“Salt Ashes is clearly an impressive new talent.” – Clash Music

Tracklisting: Somebody/ Little Dove/ Somebody (Cruelty Remix)

Available in USA on I-Tunes  http://smarturl.it/saltashes-somebody

Emerging singer Salt Ashes, aka 22 year old Veiga Sanchez, announces her debut single Somebody, set for release 17th February 2014 via @NightBeachRecords. 

On Somebody, Salt Ashes brings to life the imaginings of Kate Bush dancing in a haunted Studio 54 to electronic pulsing grooves and lyrical escapism “Somebody take me… away”. Somebody is complemented by B-side Little Dove, a jewel of a track with fragmented, brooding vocals. The package is tied up with Cruelty’s soulful, slick italo-disco re-imagining of the original Somebody.

Obsessed with Giorgio Moroder’s blend of disco and epic dark atmospheres, Salt Ashes first sprang to attention with her cover of Depeche Mode’s ‘Black Celebration’. Salt Ashes has spent the past year honing her own songs in the studio, creating her signature electronic grooves, and drawing influence from artists as diverse as Madonna, Kate Bush, Daft Punk and MIA.

Somebody

Buy on iTunes

Pigeon - Two Moon Love

'Two Moon Love' is the second single from Pigeon's forthcoming EP 'Settle In'.
OUT NOW on iTunes. 

(c) Pigeon 2013

www.pigeonofficial.com 
www.facebook.com/pigeonsite 
@pigeonsite

Two Moon Love

The first single from the new album "Love Letters"
I'm Aquarius - Out Now
http://po.st/Aquarius

Love Letters - out 10th March 2014
Pre-Order on iTunes - http://po.st/LoveLetters

Zane Lowe - Hottest Record In The World - 11.11.13

www.metronomy.co.uk
www.because.tv

Metronomy - I'm Aquarius

Download Saint Raymond's debut album - out now:
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/youngblood.itunes
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/youngblood.amazon

More from Saint Raymond:
Website: http://saintraymond.co.uk
Facebook: facebook.com/SaintRaymondMusic
Twitter: twitter.com/Callum_SR
Spotify: bit.ly/YOUNGBLOODSPOTIFY 
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/saintraymond/
Instagram: instagram.com/callum_sr

Young Blood EP

Young Blood

produced and mixed by Jason Sarubbi at Split Rock Studios, New Paltz, NY
mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music, New Windsor, NY

Wayne Memmer:  vocals, guitars, bass, synthesizer, sampler
Nikolai Middlebrook:  drums

A Bird With No Feathers

Watch the video here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qJqdFUoCNk

Spring Offensive - The River

Written & produced by Spring Offensive

Recorded by Al Groves @ The Motor Museum
Mixed by Emre Ramazanoglu
Mastered by Dave Greenberg @ Sonopod

Taken from the forthcoming debut album Young Animal Hearts

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/young-animal-hearts/id794887109

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The River

Black English - the band from Echo Park, Los Angeles - began as a home recording project in July 2011. In a small house on Mohawk Street a group of friends gathered to explore music free from any agenda.

The outcome was a sound has instilled a collective desire that, for a brief moment, perhaps all within earshot might feel unified.

Black English's debut full length "El Prado" will be released February 18th on Arts & Crafts.

Watch the band perform the song live on Last Call with Carson Daly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsMuobsDyfw&list=UUgTCMkWIxUDqh9FndnmCU3g&feature=c4-overview

"...the band delivers an uplifting hymn to the spirit of human resilience, sounding like a more optimistic version of The National." - Consequence Of Sound

Hollywood's latest working-class hero, Bradley Hanan Carter makes perfect closing-time soundtracks – NME

As I poured over new bands for this year's SXSW, I don't think there was a song that haunted me more than "Stay With Me," by Echo Park's NO. – TIME

http://NOechopark.com
twitter.com/NO
#NOEP

Black English - Leave The Door Wide Open

"Surly and melodic... sounds like Stephen Malkmus kicking out the jams with Weezer." The Fly

"Huge riffs and apathetic anthems."  The Independent

“An impressive display of hazy guitars, thundering drums and raw vocals” Clash

London based Whales In Cubicles have announced the release of their highly anticipated debut album 'Death In The Evening', recorded at legendary Monnow Valley Studio with producer Nick Mailing and mixed by Simon ‘Barny’ Barnicott (Peace, Kasabian, The Temper Trap, Placebo, Arctic Monkeys, Editors) it is out 10th February 2014 on CLUB.THE.MAMMOTH. with lead single 'All The Pretty Flowers', out the previous week.

Since releasing the debut single ‘We Never Win’ in 2012 they've carved out a distinctive niche within the UK music scene, creating complex but often minimalist soundscapes that owe more to 90s alternative rock than psychedelia. With strong support from The Fly, Q Magazine, The Independent, Artrocker, Clash and major attention from BBC Radio 1, BBC 6Music, XFM and Amazing Radio they're building up quite the momentum.

'DEATH IN THE EVENING' ALBUM TOUR:
28/01/2014 - Think Tank, Newcastle 
29/01/2014 - Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh 
30/01/2014 - A Nation Of Shopkeepers, Leeds 
01/02/2014 - Night & Day, Manchester 
05/02/2014 - Cookie Jar, Leicester 
06/02/2014 - Moles, Bath 
07/02/2014 - The Prince Albert, Brighton 
13/02/2014 - Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, London 
14/02/2014 - Sixty Million Postcards, Bournemouth 
15/02/2014 - Start The Bus, Bristol 
17/02/2014 - The Joiners, Southampton

www.whalesincubicles.com / www.facebook.com/whalesincubicles /
www.twitter.com/whalesincubicle

ALL THE PRETTY FLOWERS

Making Marks’ debut album A Thousand Half-Truths is a collection of heartwarming pop songs, touched with Scandinavian cool. Blending sweet male and female vocals with a lush soundscape filled with jangling guitars, buoyant drumming and textured synth lines, the Norwegian quartet have a real knack for melody and a keen ear for rich instrumentation.

Making Marks formed in Oslo in 2012 and are made up of Ola Innset on guitar and vocals, Nina Bø on vocals and keyboards, Marie Sneve on bass and Jørgen Nordby on drums. They’ve gigged with the likes of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Asobi Seksu, Allo Darlin’ and Marit Larsen, and have toured extensively around Europe and the USA, including appearances at SXSW.

They recorded a number of tracks for the album at Soup Studios in London, with Simon Trought and Giles Barrett. It was their influence that saw Paul Rains from Allo Darlin' playing lap steel on the song “Barcodes” and this led to Making Marks supporting Allo Darlin’ in Europe. The rest of the album is recorded in Oslo with respected indie producer Sjur Lyseid, who has worked with the band in various guises over the years.

A Thousand Half-Truths as an album is one of tensions – both resolved and unresolved. Making Marks initially planned to go down a folk/country musical path, however they soon realised that indie came more naturally to them. Yet, the tension between the country and the pop still remained, with folky melodies echoing the extended harmonies of The Carpenters, whilst their propensity for banjos, ukuleles and harmonicas faded away to leave the band sounding more integral and functional. This left them with a set of quietly confident, melancholy country songs as played by an bubbly indiepop band.

There is also tension between the lyrics and soundscape as well as between the warm, dreamy, more life-affirming songs such as "Lemon Sheets”,“Flying High Forever" and "Forgive and Forget"; and the political, critical and often pessimistic approach of "Like Spinning", "A Thousand Half-Truths", Barcodes" and "Ticket Machine".

If you do the sums, A Thousand Half-Truths equals five-hundred full truths. Yet songs are just songs – they can tell you something about life but just a glimpse at a time, revealing only half-truths but in the end perhaps that’s all we need.

Making Marks - Bruises

The former Wu Lyf member launches his bright, bold first official single on Dazed Digital. 

http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/18292/1/francis-lung-a-selfish-man

A Selfish Man 7" is out on Jan 16 on Atelier Ciseaux b/w “Tsunami Blues (Cause of Me)”

Francis Lung – A Selfish Man

The new Mutineers single "Love, It's a killer" is out now! Visit http://www.mutineersofficial.tumblr.com/melodies to purchase!


MUTINEERS - LOVE, IT'S A KILLER (OUT NOW!)

Young the Giant's official audio stream for 'Mind Over Matter' from the album, Mind Over Matter - available now on Fueled By Ramen. Visit http://youngthegiant.com for more!

Download the album at http://smarturl.it/mindovermatter2

LYRICS
Mind over matter
Does it matter to any of us?
Don't change the subject
I'm heavy on your love
I missed that train
New York City: it rains!
Fly to East L.A. in big jet planes
You know you're on my mind
And if the world don't break
I'll be shaking it 
Cuz I'm a young man after all!
And when the seasons change
Will you stand by me?
Cuz I'm a young man built to fall!
Mind over matter
I'm in tatters thinking about her
Taste my disaster
It's heavy on my tongue
All the lights aglow
Tokyo: snows
Go to watch the show
Curtain's closed 
I'm watching you this time
And if the world don't break
I'll be shaking it 
Cuz I'm a young man after all!
And when the seasons change
Will you stand by me?
Cuz I'm a young man built to fall! 
I missed that train
New York City: it rains!
Fly to East L.A. in big jet planes
You know you're on my mind
All the lights aglow
Tokyo: snows
Go to watch the show; curtain's closed 
I'm watching you this time
Mind over matter
Mind over matter
You know you're on my mind!
And if the world don't break
I'll be shaking it 
Cuz I'm a young man after all!
And when the seasons change
I missed that train
Will you stand by me?
Fly to East L.A. 
Cuz I'm a young man built to fall!
And if the world don't break!
All the lights aglow
Tokyo: snows
Go to watch the show; curtain's closed 
And when the seasons change
Will you stand by me?
Cuz I'm a young man built to fall!

Mind Over Matter

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Produced and Mixed at Wax LTD. Studios in Los Angeles, CA. by Wally Gagel and Xandy Barry. Mastered by Pete Lyman.

Order Limited Edition 7" Vinyl: http://b3scirecords.bigcartel.com/product/b3sr-004-rare-monk-splice-sleep-attack

Hailing from Portland, Oregon, the young turks of Rare Monk have a sonic resilience that’s like everything and nothing you've ever heard. While the obvious signposts are there to guide you (Modest Mouse, Sonic Youth, Phoenix), Rare Monk combine their love of both 90s and contemporary Indie Rock with a fevered Pop intensity, before shooting the whole thing into outer space to see what comes back. As frontman Dorian Aites puts it, “Although we draw upon many genres for inspiration, we’ve been creating our own thing based on nothing other than the idea that, ‘these are the songs we wrote cause they sound cool’”. 

The psychedelic insanity can be traced back to their college roots, when the guys were the go-to band for drunkin‘ dorm rooms and sonic exploration. In 2012 Rare Monk teamed up with noted producer Skyler Norwood (Blind Pilot, Horsefeathers, Talkdemonic) for their self-released EP, ‘Death By Proxy’. The giddy pop thrill of the title track and the funky, slow burn of “Underground” act as the band's mission statement, and according to Dorian, “Is pretty genuine. I think the important thing here is not to try and fit a compartmentalized soundscape, or to try and be different from everyone else; the importance lies in doing what you are passionate about. Passion is genuine.” 

In 2014 Rare Monk release a limited edition 7” AA-side single with new songs “Splice” and “Sleep/Attack” via B3SCI Records. The release was recorded and produced late Summer 2013 in Los Angeles at Wax LTD Studios by Wally Gagel (Best Coast, Muse, Family Of The Year, Folk Implosion). The songs showcase the next frontier for a band who venture toward a lauded career, capturing the sheer energy of an incredible live show, bridging a sound for the masses and that of music appreciation.

Purchase

Rare Monk - Splice

• Fall •

Music Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3TWLBkotNQ

Fall - EP out NOW: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/fall-ep/id804003515

•  Facebook: facebook.com/pixelfixmusic •  Twitter: twitter.com/pixelfixmusic • 

Pixel Fix - Fall

To find out about the story behind the song, watch the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khOBTHNXyFE

Written by Spring Offensive

Recorded at One Bit Productions
Mixed by Emre Ramazanoglu
Mastered by Dave Greenberg at Sonopod
Artwork by David Drake and Samüel Johnson

Taken from the forthcoming debut album, Young Animal Hearts

Hengelo

Open Heads / Signal 7" on Sexbeat out 10th February 2014. Pre-order here:  http://sexbeat.bigcartel.com/product/primitive-parts-open-heads-signals-pre-order 

Release show on Friday 24th Jan at Mascara Bar, Stoke Newington High Street, N16 with Ravioli Me Away / Tilted Acres

Open Heads

Woman's Hour - To The End / Our Love Has No Rhythm

Single out now on Parlour Records

Vinyl:
www.parlour-records.com

Itunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/to-the-end-single/id602072804?uo=4

Download:
http://www.7digital.com/artist/womans-hour-1/release/to-the-end

Our Love Has No Rhythm

Birds Vs Planes - Relative Worth

Artist: Barbarossa
Track: The Load

Download from: www.barbarossamusic.com
Buy 7"  from : http://www.memphis-industries.com/release/the-load-7/


(p) Memphis Industries Ltd 2013
www.memphis-industries.com

Barbarossa - The Load

Buy Wondrous Bughouse' on CD/LP/Cassette http://fatpossum.com/products/wondrous-bughouse

Buy iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/wondrous-bughouse/id604313154


Youth Lagoon "Mute"

In The City

The Postelles - 'Caught By Surprise' available March 5th, 2013 via +1 Records 

The Postelles - 'Caught By Surprise'

Sophomore full-length 'Pedals' is out now!

iTunes: bit.ly/Pedals_on_iTunes
Amazon: bit.ly/Pedals_on_Amazon
Spotify: bit.ly/Pedals_on_Spotify

320kbps Peaks MP3 Download: http://www.hearspeakhere.com/

Peaks Lyric Video: http://youtu.be/0HESJfYIc6c

Twitter: http://twitter.com/hearSPEAKhere
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hearSPEAKhere

Peaks

Tame Impala - Prototype (Outkast cover)

SPRING OFFENSIVE - SPEAK

Recorded at Bachelors Mead
Engineered by David Pye
Mixed by Emre Ramazanoglu
Mastered by Dave Greenberg
Artwork by Michael Parkin

June live dates and tickets:

15.06 - Oxford, St John the Evangelist bit.ly/SpringStJohn
19.06 - London, Hoxton Hall bit.ly/SpringHoxton
23.06 - Hamburg (D), Kulturhaus III&70 bit.ly/SpringGermany
24.06 - Köln (D), Studio 672 bit.ly/SpringGermany
25.06 - Moutier (CH), Stand'été Festival
26.06 - Nürnberg (D), Club Stereo bit.ly/SpringGermany

www.springoffensive.co.uk
www.facebook.com/springoffensive