Gimme Indie

Today Jordan Lee’s Mutual Benefit released the debut album Love’s Crushing Diamond via Other Music Recording. Similar to some alt-folk sonorities we got used in the last decade (Fleet Foxes, Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine), Mutual Benefit created a gorgeous collection of warmhearted tunes, with a peculiar mixture of songwriting and baroque arrangments. Even if Jordan Lee is the core […]

With their insanely catchy latest single “Summer Reign”, Buckinghamshire five-piece Coastal Cities show you exactly what you’ve been missing about those long, carefree summer days. There are many things the English do well. Guitar-based indie pop is one of those things. Throw in catchy synth melodies, upbeat drums, melancholic vocals, and just the right amount of new wave nostalgia, and […]

Boston’s Magic Man released their debut EP earlier this fall, and if the picture above looks familiar, that’s because our favorite track, “Waves”, was featured in our Playlist Update a few weeks back. As the days get colder for those of us in the north, we need a reminder of summer, and the upbeat, summery sounds of this EP is […]

Last night, Gimmeindie.se headed out to Urban Spree to catch No Joy headlining Shameless Limitless’ Canadian extravaganza night. The shoegazing trio No Joy is currently touring Europe and performed alongside fellow Montreal-acts Doomsquad and Secret Secret Girls. Jasamine White-Gluz (vocals, guitar) and Laura Lloyd (guitar) started working on material together while Laura was still living in LA back in 2009. […]

She’s done almost everything, having huge success throughout her career. From touring with fellow friends like Feist and Broken Social Scene, performing at the Sydney Opera House, winning two APRA Awards, to forming an indie rock trio with her Australian peers Sarah Blasko and Holly Throsby under the name of Seeker Lover Keeper. Previously known as New Buffalo, multi instrumentalist […]

Brisbane duo, The Phoncurves, have proven that the way to our hearts is through our ears with their new single ‘Heartstrings’. Made up of two lovely ladies, Abbie Roberts and Naomi Burrell, the Phoncurves have been perfecting their own fusion of folk-pop since 2011. The debut single off their forthcoming EP, Heartstrings is a charming coalescence of angelic layered vocals, […]

Warm and rising, “Chaturanga” is a welcome listen as the winter cold settles in. It’s one of four on the new EP from Hilang Child, musical moniker of London-based Ed Riman. While the opening lyrics “In winter embers glowed on the dying ground / We lay down, alone on the coldest stone” may conjure up an icy scene or chilly […]

San Francisco-based duo Painted Palms leaked another track from their upcoming LP, after the successful response to Spinning Signs. Forever, title track of their debut full-length, is a deep immersion into Beatles-likely sonorities, with an accurate use of interweaving vocal lines and fine percussion arrangements. The starting sound field suddenly turns into a great pop song, full of ascending choirs […]

B – Angel Olsen – Forgiven Forgotten A – Axxas/Abraxas – I Almost Fell B – Cate Le Bon – I Can’t Help You B – Coastal Cities – Summer Reign A – Felt Tip – Love or Pity B – Haunted House – Guts A – Jus Post Bellum – Sharp Was the River Bending B – MF/MB/ – […]

Sandra Sumie Nagano makes delicate hauntingly beautiful music. Her self-titled debut album comes out on Bella Union on December 2 and we were lucky enough to have a little chat with Sumie about her seemingly late decision to make music, her sources of inspiration and future hopes. Sumie started recording music in 2008 after having taught herself how to play […]