INDIE

Banquet Darling is the musical brainchild of Newcastle-based artist Todd Kilby, whose route to songwriting has been anything but ordinary. After years of travelling the world as a circus acrobat, musician and director, Kilby turned his attention fully toward music, writing songs everywhere from Paris to Hong Kong and from…

Independent rock artist TrixxStarr turns a deceptively simple question into an increasingly unsettling meditation on excess with “Enough.” The song circles around the idea of having everything you supposedly need and still being left wondering whether any of it actually satisfies. Its accompanying music video pushes that question even further,…

“Light of Blue” from The Mess:Age’s second album AGE OF MESS arrives as a sun-soaked pop-rock number with a surprisingly weighty idea beneath its breezy exterior. Built around images of summer, oceans and blue skies, the song turns its central colour into a symbol of hope, freedom and spiritual awakening.…

Love Rock’s “Flash of an Instant” lives in the delicious space between attraction and uncertainty, capturing the rush of a fleeting connection. The music project of Pétur Blöndal Magnason and Sveinung Fossan Bukve, Love Rock, blends organic instrumentation with electronic touches, turning memory, longing and brief encounters into something warm…

Whimsical alt-pop artist Amy Aytchi turns up the storm volume with her debut concept album, Cyclosis. Written between Glasgow and Stirling and produced independently, the record weaves a dark fairy tale about a girl crushed by life who runs into a tempest, catching a mysterious illness that turns her into…

Music by Jeremy makes a striking entrance with Scenes from a Well Worn Path – Side One, the first instalment of an ambitious 24-track double album rolling out across four sides from August to November. A debut in name but hardly in spirit, the Banbury singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist arrives with…

Finnish electronic alt-pop artist Conchis turns stillness into sound on “Under Your Feathers,” the second preview of her forthcoming album Gravity. Following 2024’s Chapters and the recently released “Streetlights,” the August 21 single arrives as an intimate plea for shelter, shaped by a period when Conchis was forced into profound…

After a 19-year self-imposed hiatus, Southern California indie singer-songwriter Brendan Ranney is striking while the iron is hot with his debut solo album, Slightly Out of Focus. Having cut his teeth in the mid-90s indie scene, Ranney walked away from music to navigate the rat race of life. But when…

Multidisciplinary indie pop-rock artist Lee Miller Matsos closes out his powerful trilogy with Metamorphosis, Pt. 3, an intimate, soul-searching project that swaps heavy theatricality for deep emotional authenticity. Drawing inspiration from vintage analog sounds and alternative rock, the Berklee-trained songwriter views growth not as a quick fix, but as a…

Swiss experimental art-rock duo DIE DIE BE, the brainchildren of Liliane Bürli and Bujar Berisha, are back to ruffle some feathers with their haunting single, “Erased Faces.” Featuring Dimitri Barbati, this industrial-tinted post-punk track pulls no punches as it dissects conformity, power structures, and the total loss of the self.…