twenty nineteen

The best new indie releases in March on one playlist for your convenience. As the month progresses, more tracks will be added. Be ahead of the curve - next year's indie darlings are on this list, probably...

Mar 19 - new tracks for indie lovers

Spring 2019

Flow #125

Fresh tunes for fuelling the April hay fever spree - hand-picked with love & care by SDEP.com

April Fuel - SDEP.com

Rubber Soul Jazz

Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

On his debut mini-album, ​I’m Never Really Here​, ​darvid thor (The Cactus Channel, Frida, Karate Boogaloo) explores what it’s like to make music alone. After playing and writing in bands for over a decade, ​I’m Never Really Here​ is darvid’s first solo venture, and it finds real solace in the solitary.

These songs might seem just dreamy on first listen, with their meandering guitar lines and warm, woozy synthesisers, Thor’s voice at turns a light falsetto and a warm tenor but ​I’m Never Really Here handles material that’s sometimes heavy with a light touch. At times anxious and quietly anguished, tender and candid, these are songs about a growing-up, a breakup, and everything in between. There are traces of Darvid’s soul influences and undergrad jazz degree here, but most present are the wide array of indie and alternative acts that have been influencing his singing, playing, and production: catchy and understatedly complex, these songs both sparkle and stutter.

Darvid recorded ​I’m Never Really Here ​alone in his bedroom — but for some drum/percussion help from Cactus Channel bandmate Hudson Whitlock on lead single ​“Rest of Your Life” and drum production from housemate Max Dowling (Yelderbert, Tetrahedra) on ​“overgrown” — over the course of a year or so. Having spent most of his musical career as an integral member of The Cactus Channel and Frida, Thor saw a solo project as an exhilarating, if daunting opportunity to learn more about himself, as a musician and as a person.

His sweet melancholy of jangly guitars and warbled synthesizers have afforded support from ​Beach Fossils​, ​Danger Mouse​, ​Double J​, ​Triple J Unearthed and ​Indie Shuffle, to name a few. Live, Darvid expands his setup to a four-piece band including Lewis Coleman, Levi Heeringa & Hugh Rabinovici.

I'm Never Really Here

Can I Be?

Watch the video: https://youtu.be/O9Zl4hyIgB4

Time 'n' Place

Swimming

Cold head, hot sheets - big windows all I need
Deep breath, morning - the possibilities 
One day some sense might bless our heads, entropic and divine 
Locked in, big win - thrilled and thrown aside 
So bad at reacting - bleeding out the cause
We’ve been talking way too much, we’ve been acting way too tough
It’s slow, big snow - trickles in a row
Good news, half truths - just paint me blue and oak
I’ll put my mouth where my hand out is - slamming on the door
Slow kiss, hard miss, attracted to the glow 
So stop. Heard you said you never were one to fight or get mixed up 
But it’s been dragging on and on. Yes, we’re so bad … 
At reacting -  bleeding out the cause
We’ve been talking way too much
We’ve  been acting way to tough
We’ve been slighted, we’ve been stung
We’ve been warned and we’ve been wronged

Reacting

Fun to lie

Fun To Lie

Makthaverskan - Demands

The Coathangers 'The Devil You Know'
Out March 8th, 2019 via Suicide Squeeze Records.

The Devil You Know

Step Back

"Face of the Sun" is the first single from Night of the Worm Moon, the new solo full-length from La Luz singer/guitarist Shana Cleveland, out 4/5/19 on LP, CD, digital, and cassette. 

Pre-order your copy today from smarturl.it/shanacleveland

Night of the Worm Moon

Shana Cleveland - "Face of the Sun"

Composer, saxophonist and founder of Immix Ensemble, Daniel Thorne,  has announced his invigorating and powerful debut solo album 'Lines of Sight' with the dizzying first track 'From Inside, Looking Out'.

Deeply moving, full of otherworldly beauty and rapture, the album is alive, throbbing like a circulatory system, colourful and glowing. It literally dazzles – effectively capturing what the birth (or death) of a planet might sound like. 

In Daniel’s own words, “Thematically, this music was inspired by birds-eye aerial images and the idea of perspective - how something incredibly complex like a river or the surface of the ocean is reduced to a simple line or shape when viewed from the heavens. The line between natural and man-made becomes increasingly blurred.”

Every strand is fresh, vital and purposeful. The description ‘seamless’ might suggest a smooth, bland fusion, but here elements overlap in intermittent, undulating layers of mesh. Avant-garde, noise, electronics, ecclesiastical, classical and a touch of jazz come together, each occupying their own space while acquiescing with the whole. 

“Several compositions are derived from ratios and processes, and are 
Lines of Sight follows Thorne’s work as artistic director of the acclaimed, collaboration-focussed group Immix Ensemble. Together with experimental electronic artist Vessel, he co-wrote Transition released on Erased Tapes in 2016, described by BBC Radio 6’s Mary Anne Hobbs as “a remarkable new piece of music”. More recently, he worked with acclaimed modular synth wizard Luke Abbott, to create a four-part suite, which was premiered live in June 2017. Immix Ensemble have also performed special live commissions with Kelly Lee Owens, Dialect, Jane Weaver and Bill Ryder-Jones, among others. 

After a first solo performance at Sea Change Festival 2018, the new year will see Daniel tour across Europe, promoting the forthcoming release of Lines of Sight.

European Tour Dates:
13.2. Rotondes — Luxembourg, LU (with Daniel Brandt)
14.2. Melkweg ­— Amsterdam, NL (with Daniel Brandt)
15.2. Doornroosje — Nijmegen, NL (with Daniel Brandt)
16.2. Botanique — Brussels, BE - (with Daniel Brandt)
26.2. Corsica Studios — London, UK (with Daniel Brandt)
10.4. 24 Kitchen Street — Liverpool, UK (with Terry Riley & Gyan Riley)

Lines of Sight

Buy LP/CD/DL

Daniel Thorne - From Inside, Looking Out

from the new album 'Act Surprised,' out 5/24 on Dangerbird Records.

Pre-order / Pre-save: smarturl.it/Sebadoh

Sebadoh - celebrate the void

From their 5th studio album, V.

LP/CD/Digital: dapt.one/BudosV

The Budos Band - Veil Of Shadows

C Duncan’s highly anticipated third album sees the Scottish multi-instrumentalist ditch his bedroom studio and work with other producers, engineers and musicians for the first time. “This was the biggest shift in dynamic for me,” he explains, “having always worked alone, it was a daunting prospect but one I knew I had to explore.” Navigating themes of love, anxiety and sexuality, ‘Health’ – produced by Elbow’s Craig Potter - is a deeply personal record that delves into a world Duncan had previously felt uneasy exploring.

C Duncan - Impossible

Cigarette Burns

No Quit

Destrage "The Chosen One" from the album "The Chosen One"

The Chosen One

Destrage "The Chosen One"

Rare Candy by Ember Oceans

Produced and Mixed by Freddy Tyler Paul
Artwork by Louie Capozzoli
Mastered at Gravity Studios

Lyrics:

I know who owns Studio 54
Come with me and we’ll get in the backdoor
Order golden Cadillacs up at the bar
Comeback and you’re cheating on me 
With a movie star

Got plenty of chances
If I just keep dancing
I wanna be on their level
I need that

Rare candy 
To stay up till It's dawn
At the center of attention
It's a different kind of fun

No need to be romantic
When the bass guitar is blasting
I wanna be on their level

I need that rare candy

Feeling pretty good now
I'm just here to have a good time
It's a different kind of fun
At the center of attention, yeah

Would you want to come back to my place
You’re the picture perfect model for my next painting

Lets get abstract before I get sidetracked
Small talk singles aren’t a part of my contract 

No control over my actions
Somethings starting to happen
I wanna be on their level

I need that rare candy

Feeling pretty good now
I'm just here to have a good time
It's a different kind of fun
At the center of attention, yeah

Tryna keep up tryna wake up stay 
Tryna walk straight tryna taste this flavor
Runnin low but it'll get me through tomorrow

Tryna keep up tryna wake up stay up
tryna walk straight while I taste this flavor
Running low but it'll get me through tomorrow

Tryna keep up tryna wake up stay up
tryna walk straight while I taste this flavor

Now I'm feeling pretty good now
Yea I'm never comin' downdowndowndowndown
I'm feelin' pretty good right now
Yea I feel it yea, I feel it

Feeling pretty good now
I'm just here to have a good time
It's a different kind of fun
At the center of attention, yeah

Rare Candy

Stream/Download: https://snd.click/7fgtq9eo
https://www.courtyardsband.com

What you say to me
now, you take it all back, and you're sending me
Dancing in my mind,
Atmosphere evaporates mine, I embrace it
Integrate this state of your mind I can't take it.

I see you there, you're always
dancing in my brain
You don't know
It takes hold
Exhale the thoughts that have been
eating you away
Just let go
Let it all go.

What you say to me
now, you take it all back, and you're sending me
Dancing in my mind,
Atmosphere evaporates mine, I embrace it
Integrate this state of your mind I can't take it.

You see it
Even if your heads not in it
Can you feel it all soak?
Electricity flows

and now you're sending me west
You're racking my brain
And you're sending me dancing in my mind,
Atmosphere evaporates mine, I embrace it
Integrate this state of your mind, I can't take it.

Have you been feeling these thoughts in your mind?
Cos' i've been feeling these thoughts in my mind,
I see you opening up in my mind,
I see you taking control in my mind.

Oh i'll say what you want me to say,
Oh how do you make me feel this way,
Oh I'll say what you want me to say,
I cant be who you want me to.

Colours

Put Some Miles On

Haunted Items #1 (Release Date: March 13, 2019)

Spotify: https://u.subpop.com/Haunted-1_Spotify 
Apple: https://u.subpop.com/Haunted-1_Apple
Sub Pop Mega Mart https://megamart.subpop.com/releases/frankie_cosmos/haunted_items_1

Frankie Cosmos: http://frankiecosmosband.com/ 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FrankieCosmos/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/frankiecosmos
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frankiecombos/?hl=en

Sub Pop Records: http://www.subpop.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/subpop
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/subpoprecords
SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/subpop
MegaMart: https://megamart.subpop.com/
Podcast: http://subpop.fm/

Frankie Cosmos - Dancing

Daylight Matters

A new single from Monteagle. 

Stream & Purchase Monteagle's debut album "Midnight noon" firetalkrecs.com/shop/monteagle

Monteagle is the solo moniker of Justin Giles Wilcox - best know as chief songwriter in Nassau and now defunct Tennessee band Moonlight Bride. The later of which had some early looks, collapsing just on the brink of break out success. Paste Magazine calling Wilcox’s delivery in a “Best of What’s Next” feature “tremulous, bare-souled vocals, which are as haunted and alluring as the caves that riddle the rocky hills of the band’s hometown.” Monteagle, named for a mountain inside those hills marks a re-birth for the now well seasoned indie rock vet. Expanding on the more ethereal, dreamy inclinations of past work into something closer to the history of those hills.

Monteagle - Master (Hidden Valley)

Cows on Hourglass Pond

HORS_

Green Balloon

Nice Things

The Dream Syndicate’s new album 'The Universe Inside' is out now on ANTI- Records. Purchase & Stream at https://thedreamsyndicate.ffm.to/theuniverseinside.