‘As Deep As Love’ is taken from acclaimed indie troubadour Daniel Pearson’s upcoming album, Alone Together, set for release on 21st August. There’s something reminiscent of U2 in Pearson’s vocal: “like raindrops on a wire / words on your tongue / nothing cuts as deep as love”. Beautiful lyrics in abundance, this track boasts a … Continue reading Track of the Week: As Deep As Love // Daniel Pearson
Gold Jacks, an alternative/rock four-piece from Manchester, are shrouded in a cloak of mystery; their website sets up the conspiracy that it’s no coincidence that Zayn Malik quit One Direction days after they dropped their debut single ‘One Kinda Woman’. And, with one intention and one intention only – to resuscitate the still-twitching corpse of … Continue reading Track of the Week: Take It Back // Gold Jacks
Brooding Birmingham band, Grim Disco, have released post-punk track ‘Give and Go’ today, premiering the song exclusively on The Indiependent. It’s a construction which is dripping with ambience and attitude from start to finish, with the same sinister undertone which is apparent in a vast proportion of Echo & the Bunnymen’s discography. The pulsating melody, punctuated … Continue reading Single Review: Give and Go // Grim Disco
‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’ is the lead single from The Beach Boys album, Pet Sounds, and is a timeless classic which has since been used in multiple movie soundtracks – most notoriously the Adam Sandler film, 50 First Dates. The band themselves were brought back to the fore of the public’s mind just last year … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: Wouldn’t It Be Nice // The Beach Boys
Devon Rockers, Black Thistles released their debut EP Who Cares back in April, and it’s a release which packs a punch from the get-go. Opening track ‘Don’t Get Ready, Get Ready’ is a lesson in self-contradiction if ever there was one. This track boasts a stop-start melody with an infectious hook, which contradicts the monotonous … Continue reading EP Review: Who Cares // Black Thistles
‘Sebastian’ by Welsh quintet, Tree of Wolves is a charmingly catchy construction which is sure to get your foot tapping as you recall the music of days gone by. Self-described as a “love letter to love” itself, this is a cleverly orchestrated ode to alt-pop, in particular giving nods to Glaswegian band Orange Juice and … Continue reading Track of the Week: Sebastian // Tree of Wolves
Lucy Rose’s latest album, Work It Out, is a stellar sophomore effort from the Surrey born singer-songwriter. Taking and building on the delicate vocal prominent in her 2012 debut, Like I Used To, Rose’s vocal abilities have reached new soaring heights. The record is carefully constructed so that the tracks flow into one another seamlessly, … Continue reading Album Review: Work It Out // Lucy Rose
The MBG’s EP Everywhere We Sit Is VIP is an interesting concoction of sounds and influences. Proving difficult to pin the band down into a subgenre within the frame of ‘indie’, it’s this level of defiance and uniqueness that makes The MBG’s music so refreshing. It’s not singing so much as it is telling stories … Continue reading EP Review: Everywhere We Sit Is VIP // The MBG
Chesterfield/Sheffield based rock band, Spitfire, have released a punch-in-the-face sonic entity in the form of ‘Shock You’. From a band that have chosen to share their name with the aircraft that formed the backbone of RAF Fighter Command during the Second World War, we expected great things from ‘Shock You’. The band does not disappoint, taking … Continue reading Track Review: Shock You // Spitfire
London-based indie trio, Many Things, have hit our eardrums with the anthemic ‘Burn Together’, the eponymous track from their debut album, which is set for release this summer. The band has spent the past couple of years recording the album between the UK, Germany and Australia, and from the sounds of this track alone we … Continue reading Track of the Week: Burn Together // Many Things
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