Gimme Indie

Two years after the critically acclaimed debut on Domino, Canadian electro-pop darlings Austra are back with new album Olympia. Singer Katie Stelmanis’ opera-trained voice is powerful, yet heartbreaking when she sings the lyrics “You know that it hurts me when you don’t come home at night” on new single Home. Even though the track starts out almost serene, it progresses […]

Hailing from a small coastal town south of Sydney, Shining Bird have certainly been ruffling a few feathers with the release of their new track Distant Dreaming. Straight off their forthcoming album Leisure Coast, the new single is a fusion of dreamy pop melodies, crooning vocals and contagious percussion laced with distinctly Australian soundscapes. In tradition with the Bird’s style, […]

The British folktronica masters Tunng are releasing their fifth studio album “Turbines” on Full Time Hobby  today. The first single The Village has been circling the World Wide Web for a while now as well as landing a spot on our playlist last week. Focusing more on the folk than on the ‘tronica The Village, as one of the founding […]

Watch the beautifully animated video for “Green Blood”, taken from the new album Antenna to the Afterworld out now. Thanks to the talented Teppei Ando, who also produced the band’s video for “Planet of Woman”, this song about love on a distant planet got its visually rightful framing. Sonny Smith and his four band members (one of them being the brillant Kelley Stoltz) are […]

With the anticipated debut album Spacehopper ready for release next week, Tripwires give us a little taste of what’s to come with the video for their latest single, “Shimmer”. It’s a reverb-heavy, shoegazey, swirling indie rock anthem that plays perfectly with a quiet-loud dynamic and singer Rhys Edwards’ Britpop croon. In my opinion it’s the standout track on the upcoming album, harking back to […]

The London based duo Big Deal is back again with their second LP, June Gloom. The second single, Dream Machines, shows perfectly the approach of the band (here supported by an expanded ensemble): a dreamy guitar pop merged into a steamy rhythmic section. Opened by a reverberated guitar phrasing, the track leads the listener straight into Big Deal’s world. The […]

In April we saw the birth of Sweet Baboo’s fourth studio album Ships. Time has come for his next single – a shorter version of ‘C’Mon Let’s Mosh from the album. Filling up the air with happiness, the melody makes your hips go back and forth. Sweet Baboo manages to create an atmosphere that resembles Sweden’s best storyteller Jens Lekman […]

Berlin-based Molly Nilsson has made a name for herself in the indie and queer scene of Berlin and is just about to release her new album The Travels. While the lyrics of her track “Dear Life” captures the everyday struggles of life in pretty much any city, the music takes you back straight to the feeling only an adrenaline-stuffed night […]

Video premiere and new album. The band announces the impending release of Shulamith, the proper follow-up to Give You The Ghost, out this Fall. Fresh on the heels of their Governor’s Ball appearance this weekend, Polica have unveiled a startlingly intense music video for latest single “Tiff.” The video, directed by NABIL and Mike Piscitelli, is a portrait of a […]

Australian indie rockers release new single… and dress up like nuns. Hailing from Bateau Bay, a seaside holiday town north of Sydney, these lifelong friends formed Sea Legs in 2011 and have steadily built up a faithful following. In this short time, they toured with some of Australia’s leading indie bands, received serious airplay on Triple J and Radar, and […]