The best Indie pop / rock tracks from May 2021. Full playlist at www.birp.fm // Updated monthly, so save your favorites!  Indie, Bedroom Pop, Lofi, Surf Rock, etc.

Indie Playlist • BIRP! May 2021

Ways to Lose

Always

Blues Run the Game

Cassette is Swiss Portraits new release that will be part of their new album "learning to swim".

Cassette

Stream 'Belladonna' : https://echoframe.fanlink.to/belladonna

 The Vancouver-based musician Echo Frame takes inspiration from all corners of the music world and swirls them into a bottomless pot of indie, soul, surf-rock, disco and more. With “Belladonna”, the songwriter invokes a blissful, genreless euphoria as he unlaces his narrative of romantic infatuation. The way Echo Frame partners funky guitar lines with dreamy vocals and a strolling rhythm section makes us particularly impatient for the release of his upcoming EP...

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Echo Frame - Belladonna

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Lyrics:
Be honest with me now
You make me feel like I'm a handmedown
You pick me up and then you turn me down
Just wish you'd hit my line
I only think about you all the time
Why i gotta get in line

Is it just because I say i want it all
Is it just me 'cause, no that's not me at all
I know I say stuff that I don't mean at all
I've been thinking 'bout it and it just don't make no sense at all

Be honest with me now
You make me feel like I'm a handmedown
You pick me up and then you turn me down
Just wish you'd hit my line
I only think about you all the time
Why i gotta get in line

Girl you're feeling lonely
Don't you know that that's how I've been feeling mostly?
Yeah I'm lost but you can show me now

It's not just because, it's not how I wanted
And nothing can change that now

Be honest with me now
You make me feel like I'm a handmedown
Why your mom want me to turn it down
Just wish you'd hit my line
I only think about you all the time
Why i gotta get in line

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Music written and produced by Ben Andre
Mastered by Joe LaPorta
Artwork: photo by Ellie Sperazza, editing by Matt Lewis, and text by Will Bryant

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ALL PLATS

You know you’re stuck in my head
And you dont wanna know bout the rest
Think of me when ur tucked all in bed
Your favourite colour is red
And I think I know what is best

Cus you keep on changing your mind
Send me a snap then you dont wanna reply
Just tell me why, just tell me why
Why won’t you hang out with me tonight

Can you tell me why I’m holding on
Holding onto something that I know is wrong
Baby you’re awfully quiet this time
Why don’t you stay home inside tonight
Why don’t you tell me if im wasting my time
Baby you’re special you’re one of a kind
Please don’t lose mind over what I say
Even I don't know what goes on in my brain
I wish i never said what i said
Baby you’re so fucking stuck in my head


Stuck

🪦🖤✨Human
by The Miracle Syndicate

I’m walking with you.
I’m walking with you.

Wherever you are,
Whatever you do,
From the day you were born
Till the day you will be torn,
I will be with you.

No matter the days of the past,
No matter how long you will last,
I am the one you will never see—
The answer of what will be.

Whatever you do, whatever you want,
Whatever you search, and wherever you are.

Whatever you do, whatever you want,
Whatever you search, and wherever you might be—

I’m walking with you.
I’m walking with you.

I’m the sun, I’m the moon,
Watching over you.

Whatever you do, whatever you want,
Whatever you search, and wherever you are,
In grace or disgrace, or under the yawn,
Chainfaced or displaced, flourishing or broke—

I’m walking with you.
I’m the sun, I’m the moon.

No matter your race, no matter the place,
I’m walking with you.
I’m the sun of your life, I’m the square of your strife.
I’m walking with you.
From the cradle to the cemetery—
I’m walking with you.
I am the presence you cannot sense.
I am with you.

Whatever you have to say,
Whatever your questions are,
Remember I’m never far.
Remember my force is yours.

I’m walking with you.

Whatever you do, whatever you want,
Whatever you search, and wherever you are,
In grace or disgrace, or under the yawn,
Straight faced or displaced, flourishing or broke.
No matter your race, no matter your goals,
No matter the place or the depth of the walls—

I’m walking with you.
I’m walking with you.

At the end of the road, I will be.
I will be waiting for you.

Original Song: “Human” by Cyber-Tec Project (1995)
All rights remain with the original copyright holders.
This is a non-commercial rework — a heartfelt reinterpretation made out of love for the song and its spirit.
We claim no ownership. No copyright infringement intended.

Reimagined by:
Elena Morgenstern, Nayeli Astra Xóchitl, and Brad Astra
Produced by The Miracle Syndicate
Mixed and mastered by Brad Astra at Nude Studio · Calgary · Canada
Label: Painful Records © 2025

Special Thanks:
To the ravens who guided our melodies, the universe for its endless inspiration, and to everyone who has been part of this journey. This music collection is dedicated to those who dream with their eyes open.

In Loving Memory:
To Rio, who always listened. 🐾🖤✨

Human

On My Mind

I won`t change my mind

Remington Super 60 - I Won`t Change My Mind

Hourglass

© 2021 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records
Produced by William Evans
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert

Gone 
Not erased
Stubborn images a memory
Pull the blinds
No escape
My mood, television apathy
Catch a film
Sit alone in the back
In case you’re called away again
Never starts, so I thought
A dream, just another sediment

Done 
With the night
Or what’s left of it anyway 
Mind the gap
Rural flight
My body slurred and carried
For how long in the dark
Do we wait, until you’re called away again?
We have it all to ourselves
So we stay, until you’re called away again
Till you’re called away again
Till you’re called away again
Till you’re called away again

Music by Nicholas Evans, William Evans, Zachary Blount
Lyrics by Nicholas Evans
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

With You For Ever

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Called Away Again

BMH is the third single from Scottish folk-pop collective Randolph’s Leap’s forthcoming album Spirit Level.

“On one hand, it’s about the pretentious things people say to appear interesting. I found humour in the idea that the Big Momma’s House film franchise could be based on a critically-acclaimed and cherished novel (spoiler: it isn’t) and there are some digs at hipster culture. It’s also about a house not feeling like a home. Looking back, I reckon I was probably exaggerating the flaws in the house but I got a bit fixated on it, almost like it was haunting me or conspiring against me somehow.”

Spirit Level is an upbeat, melodic indie-pop album full of personality, catchy hooks and memorable lyrics, rich in textural, polyphonic arrangements, and capturing the infinite charm of Adam Ross, the leader of this 8-piece band.

As a core songwriter with a large ensemble, Adam Ross may draw comparison with Stephin Merritt or Neil Hannon, while mining the rich Scottish seam of Postcard Records and C86. And as with contemporaries King Creosote or Withered Hand, is unafraid of drawing on folk music’s story telling tradition, detailing the minutiae of life’s fluctuations, here packaged up in glorious, anthemic and energetic pop.

The titular ‘spirit level’ is a steady reference point over what had been an unsettled spell writing the album, with Adam Ross uprooting from a decade in Glasgow to a tauntingly lopsided house in rural Aberdeenshire, navigating his way through shifting phases in his well-being and happiness, and reflecting on the untimely death of two greatly admired acquaintances. That balancing act came in the form of music, in an optimistic, even celebratory, collection of songs.

Recorded over a period of a year in Glasgow with keyboard player Pete MacDonald engineering, mixing and producing the sessions at home, the album went off to mastering in the nick of time: the following night Pete’s flat went Up In Smoke in a massive fire, taking everything bar Pete (and his pet hedgehog, Frida) with it.

“The next generation of witty Scottish indie pop” The Quietus

“A band deserving of every shred of love and success which came Belle & Sebastian's way” The Scotsman

"The Jonathan Richman of Scottish indie" The Herald

Randolph’s Leap started out as a pseudonym for the solo output of Adam Ross, and now includes up to 8 people in the full live band. The debut Randolph’s Leap album, Clumsy Knot, came out in 2014, with another four live and studio albums and a handful of singles across labels Fence Collective, Olive Grove Records and Lost Map. In 2018 a touring theatre show called The Isle of Love was devised around the songs of Randolph’s Leap.

They’ve recorded several Marc Riley sessions, performed at Green Man, T in the Park, Indietracks, and The Edinburgh Fringe, and have toured with The Burning Hell and James Yorkston. 
The Randolph’s Leap name is taken from a scenic location on the River Findhorn.

Randolph’s Leap are Adam Ross (songs, vocals, guitar), Adam Armour-Florence (drums), Ali Hendry (trumpet), Andrew MacLellan (guitar), Fraser Gibson (trombone) Heather Fox (violin), Pete MacDonald (keyboards) and Vicki Cole (bass).

Spirit Level

Randolph's Leap - BMH

PEEL is a band from Sydney making interdimensional guitar music. The band's second single 'DYNA' pulls the hypnotic, fuzz-driven energy heard on ‘Memory Loop’ into cosmic territory, with a searing opening guitar riff gliding into beds of organs, reverb-drenched guitars and lush vocals.

Listen / Buy: https://smarturl.it/PEEL.DYNA​
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peel.band/​
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peel.band/​
Bandcamp: https://peel-band.bandcamp.com/​

Grab tickets to the single launches while you still can:
-March 19 - The Factory, Marrickville http://bit.ly/3rrUDek​
-April 9 - La La La’s, Wollongong http://bit.ly/3c3GzBk

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