The best Indie pop / rock tracks from March 2025. Full playlist at www.birp.fm // Updated monthly, so save your favorites!  Indie, Bedroom Pop, Lofi, Surf Rock, etc.

Indie Pop / Rock Playlist | BIRP! March 2025

Erotica Veronica

Felicity

Cakewalk

Fast Car

be mine

And That's How I Got The Congas

Big Ideas

Lungcutters

First single off Baywaves' sophomore EP "It's Been Like" (Art Is Hard, 2018)

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Recorded and mixed with Hans Krüger at Montreal Studios (Delorean, John Talabot).
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk.
Artwork by Eenyakee.

Still In Bed

FREE DOWNLOAD! Taken from an as yet untitled release out on Art is Hard later this year.

Emily Isherwood (fka Nugget) is a Bristolian magician, familiar to anyone who has ever frequented one of Bristol's record shops or perhaps those who caught her fronting frenetic acts like Rink or Skeleton Frames. The decision at the end of last year to start recording music under her own name feels like a symbolic one. With it, Emily has drawn a line under what came before whilst also undoubtedly being influenced by those previous experiences.

'Calibrate' is the first track to be shared in this new guise and is a startling introduction. The stripped back sound of the earlier Nugget Demo EP is replaced by sparse electronics segueing into swelling choruses bubbling with raw emotion. It's not the sort of music you put on in the background, rather an all consuming experience requiring your full attention. Partly this is down to Emily's knack for stringing together poetic lines that feel effortless in their construction.

Recorded in a studio just outside Bath, the track forms part of a larger collection set for release on Art is Hard later in 2018. In the meantime, Emily is heading on a nine date UK tour with a full band in tow supporting Black Foxxes:

28th March, Manchester Deaf Institute
29th March, Leeds Key Club
30th March, Glasgow Cathouse
31st March, Newcastle Thinktank
2nd April, Nottingham Bodega
3rd April, Birmingham Mama Roux's
5th April, Southampton Joiners
6th April, London Heaven
7th April, Bristol Thekla

Calibrate

Emily Isherwood - Calibrate

Buy ltd edition 7" flexidisc with zine:
http://www.artishardrecords.co.uk/products/615887-wedding-hands-in-the-till-a-little-love-7-flexidisc-and-8-page-zine

For the second issue of our zine Eyes & Ears, we're delighted to be welcoming Wedding to the family. The Berlin-born, Manchester-raised five piece put out mini album Mania Whatever on Stockholm label Maternal Voice last year. Their shimmering, psych-tinged jangle pop has been elevated to new levels on this AA single. Hands in the Till is the motorik socialist pop song we all need, whilst A Little Love is a bittersweet summer afternoon where the sun sets too soon.

Each issue of Eyes & Ears includes a 7" flexidisc record and an 8 page zine including illustrations, an interview (with Sammy Maine) and more. You'll also receive an instant download of Hands in the Till.

Buy 7" flexi + zine

Wedding - Hands In The Till

The new single by Michael Seal and the inaugural release for Rigmarole Records.

'Nothing', draws inspiration from the early Kinks meets Screaming Jay Hawkins, and features blistering solos from Holiday Ghosts' own guitar god, Sam Stacpoole. The drums are skilfully struck by Bruce Sargent of Bakewell's best beat combo, The Hipshakes.
Download the track to receive two bonus tracks including, 'I Couldn't See', a pop stomper straight out of the 70s. And 'Chug-a-Lug' which takes us further back to the early 60s, featuring Sam Stacpoole's stupendous Surf Rock guitar stylings. Oh baby!

Download all three for £3 here:
michaelsealmusic.bandcamp.com/album/noth…ack-single

Michael Seal
Guitar, Piano, Bass, Vocals
Bruce Sargent 
Drums
Sam Stacpoole
Lead Guitar

Mastered by Jake Tysome.

Michael Seal - NOTHING

Just a Roland JV 1010 on Orch/Brass patch 124 and a little bit of Kontakt trumpet.

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