An indie playlist featuring the best Indie pop / rock tracks from December 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! December 2021

making music is cool 🌻

Guitar (Zay) 

Violin (Zay) 

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something

Cloud Watching

Talk 2 U

Wish

Captain America / Siren Song

Captain America

Birch Baby

Beetle Bee,
You know the muscle eats the brain sometimes
Tried to replicate a photo are you satisfied
Is it knowing that makes you mine
Or the knowing that we were running out of time

Well, hold that pose you're looking like a fatal frame
Paid a penny out of way to make a picture last in time and
Took a polaroid just to make you stay the same
Dont move, Dont move

Who are you to say
That time don't move any other other way and
Who are you to look the other way
When time don't move any other other way

Beetle bee you swing the bat and swing away
Dont move don't move
Swing the bat and swing away 
Like a picture in a frame
At least we'll always look the same inside a fatal looking frame

Don't you move, don't you move, don't you move
Don't you move, don't you move, don't you move

Watch the muscles that are moving you
Pretending I could move you too
Only you, and only you
I wish I could be 
The photograph you left me
Only you, and only you

Beetle bee you swing the bat and swing away
Dont move don't move
Swing the bat and swing away 
Like a picture in a frame
At least we'll always look the same inside a fatal looking frame

All the sentimental pain
Of a picture of a game
At least we'll always look the same 
Inside a fatal looking frame 

Who are you to say
That time don't move any other other way and
Who are you to look the other way
When time don't move any other other way

Ghost Party

Dont Move

Leeds quartet Crake have today announced their debut album, ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’. It arrives via Fika Recordings on April 8th. The band have also shared the album’s lead single, ‘Winter’s Song’. 

Led by enigmatic songwriter Rowan Sandle, Crake is driven by her endless curiosity. Armed with her gently cracking vocal, and inspiration from writers like Shirley Jackson and Nan Shepherd, she sings of crinoids, slime mould and pussy willow. When they supported Buck Meek at Brudenell Social Club, Buck found himself so beguiled by Sandle and her band that he invited them to support Big Thief on their UK and EU tour in 2019. Crake duly obliged and have been building towards their debut full-length ever since. 

Much of the forthcoming album revolves around the death of Sandle’s friend Anna, who died in Syria after being hit by a Turkish air strike. Anna was working for a woman’s liberation group in the war-stricken country when the tragedy took place. ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ explores the grief that followed and the lessons learnt from dealing with such a significant loss. 

Sandle does, however, find space to explore more themes alongside this grief, such as cruelty and queer nature. On lead single ‘Winter’s Song’ she acknowledges the cruelty and coldness that exists within us all, and questions how we can continue to grow and love whilst remaining true to that. 

Speaking about the track, she said: “Winter’s Song is about the absolute mundane beauty of being fallible. It's a true story, I saw the moon rise but swore it was the sun setting. I think about this line a lot: “keep a little coldness in you, just wear it soft and gentle” Be soft, be kind, be honest. Being unremarkable has its own beauty.” 

Sandle’s love for queer nature is so fervent that it makes the experience of listening to Crake akin to that of stumbling on an entirely new world. Sandle believes that life isn’t as black and white as we’ve been taught, and thinks nature holds the key to revealing the true nature of human experience. The appearances of things like slime mould - single-celled organisms that form a single body when in search of food  - brittle starfish - a type of starfish whose awareness isn’t concentrated in one place - and other such oddities furnish ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ with a folklore all of its own. 

‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ will send you down multiple rabbit holes and you’ll emerge from each with a newfound appreciation for the complexities of the world. Perhaps even more important than this though is the humanity that lies at the very heart of this debut full-length. Whether it’s in the sensitivity in how she portrays the loss of her friend, the depiction of our most base instincts - namely cruelty, passion and love - or the sincere, pure quality of the songwriting itself, it’s this that makes ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ essential, and invaluable listening.

Winter's Song

Crake - Winter's Song

Please allow us to introduce you to 'Stop and Listen', an upbeat stomper that tells the story of two people pulling in opposite directions throughout a fractious relationship. Born out of a period of negativity and frustration, writing and recording the song has been a cathartic process - one that has taken what was once a sensitive subject matter and bundled it into our own little sing-a-long anthem, all tied up with a soul-pop bow. On a thematic level, ‘Stop and Listen’ is for anyone who’s been through troubles and disagreements with friends, struggles with anxiety, control and inward reflection, but it’s also just for anyone who wants to dance!

Tickets for our headline show at The Lexington, London 26/02/22: https://bit.ly/3t3rbiO

April tour tickets on sale from 10am Friday

Stop and Listen

Stop And Listen

Click play for a strange tale of casino woes and social media coding. The rush of addiction, the thrill of the chase, a comedic look at the big shot feeling. Place your bets and get ready to spin the wheel…

Tickets for our headline show at The Lexington, London 26/02/22: bit.ly/3t3rbiO

Bad Translation

Sunshine and Honey Bees

Molasses

19 WHOM EVER - WHAT EVER

A track about the turmoil that comes with a lifestyle reliant on late nights.

Everything Is Fine

Bringing you psychedelic and dreamy beats and songs from the comfort of my bedroom in Rochester, NY.

Wish

Vibropath

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