Bradford’s own psych-rockers FLING release debut album FLING OR DIE today via Dance To The Radio – “11 tracks of blissed-out psych pop that manages to feel both fresh and familiar” – The Line of Best Fit. The release comes off the back of a year of sold-out hometown shows, appearances at Live at Leeds, Swn Festival, Neighbourhood Festival and singles supported by Steve Lamacq (6…
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Having played at Glastonbury, Isle of Wight Festival, Bestival and Cambridge folk festival Noble Jacks are garnered as one of the country’s ‘good time’ bands and they are back with the release of their second album Stay Awake on the 29th March – a perfect alternative to take your mind off the Brexit gloom. Preceding the album, this Friday…
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*Drum Roll* Please welcome this week’s Indie Crush of the Week – Rasha Jay. Billed as ‘bringing soul to modern rock’ we were immediately taken with her music – and promptly set about arguing whether she was indie enough to be our indie crush (it’s an issue close to our hearts!) https://soundcloud.com/rashajay/sets/high-dive-ep-by-rasha-jay/s-ncb7x What we could…
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Fresh on our desks in the first few days of 2019 we found gem of a track from Japanese British-based artist, Rie Fu. Take a listen below: https://soundcloud.com/rie-music/06-mirror Having already released a video late last year for the track ‘Ripples’, ‘Mirror‘ is the second release from Rie’s upcoming album. An art school graduate from St…
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This week’s Indie Crush of the Week is a band that hail from the Italian city of Milan – Bright Garden! Formed of Fabio Migliavacca (guitars and vocals), Stefano Romay (bass), Claudio Sitta (drums) their sound is at once retro but modern – reminiscent of the brilliant 2000s British band, Milburn. Check out their track addicted…
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When an artist lists Virginia Woolf, Lana De Rey, Buddha, David Lynch, Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar among their influence, you just know that their music is going to be something. You don’t know what the specifics of that something might be, but it is going to be something nonetheless. It turns out that in…
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Among all the new music that comes our way at Indie Crush, there is sometimes nothing we want more than a classic song with a classic sound – simple as. With all that pressure on musicians to remain original and sound ‘fresh,’ it seems many forget the simple art of just making a great song……
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The latter-half of the 2010s has been characterized, among other things, by an unprecedented nostalgia for the 1980s. The Duffer Brothers’ sleeper smash ‘Stanger Things’ is perhaps the best example of this appetite for synth-tinged, neon entertainment, and the real strange thing is that the desire for all things 80s is strongest among millennials, the…
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The decision this week to make SAZ our Indie Crush of the Week was something of an easy one – considering firstly, they made pretty great indie-influenced tracks, and secondly, they’re both models… Hailing from North London SAZ have just dropped their EP Dread Full with reports of a full length album already in the works. The…
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“The Seattle music scene is probably pretty similar to the Manchester music scene. The winter weather here is rainy and dark with low cloud cover and a fucking relentless low pressure system bearing down on people. That kind of weather makes you feel like you can be inside your basement making music and you won’t be missing anything.” If…
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A few months back a reviewer here at Indie Crush asked whether “pop punk has become stale and formulaic” – lamenting how “songs about suburbia, pizza, mountain dew, vans, skateboards, and Hot Topic are a dime a dozen, earning the genre a reputation as inauthentic and formulaic…” Now that may well be true – but we’re here…
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Over here at Indie Crush we’ve been given a tip off that Bexatron are soon to release a new single. It’s been pretty hard to miss them on the rock gigging circuit recently, and we’ve been allowed a sneak listen to their new single. These guys have been up to a lot recently, supporting for…
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