The Kills, M83, Yeasayer, Ry X, Fear of Men, and lots more on this week’s Independent Music Monday
Are you new to our playlist? Welcome along if so.
What we do is make a playlist every Monday of the best new releases on Independent labels. It’s a bit like those New Music Friday playlists, but on a Monday, and with no major labels (except a few fall in the grey area of being distributed in some countries by major labels, but it all gets a bit complicated….).
The playlist consists of 50 songs hand-picked by the editor of Drowned in Sound, about 20 or so new additions each week. These are both tracks/singles added to streaming services in the past week or from albums which were just released. Expect everything from melacholic pianos to Scandi-pop bangers via gritty hip-hop and deathly metal riffs.
New Tracks from Forthcoming Albums
The Kills don’t appear to have lost that vampiric bite since they went away. ‘Doing It To Death’ slipped online last week alongside confirmation of the duo’s new album Ash & Ice (pictured above) on June 3rd through Domino Records. Watch the video and pre-order your copy here.
This week, Fear of Men’s haunting 'Island’ arrived from Jessica Weiss’s forthcoming album Fall Forever. Apt for this playlist, she described the track as an “anthem to independence”. The new album is out on the 3rd June, through the Kanine label. and you can order a special limited edition golden vinyl edition from her website.
Also this week we had the slighty bonkers first taste of the new album from M83, another teaser from the forthcoming Yeasayer album plus tracks from Joey Bada$$, El Perro Del Mar, Innerspace Orchestra, RY X, Explosions in the Sky, Hammock, Haelos, YILA, The Dandy Warhols, The Boxer Rebellion, Guy Andrews, Cate Le Bon, Aurora, Lonely The Brave, Junk Son, and Bodhi plus a Disclosure remix of Flume’s 'Never Be Like You’.
Friday March 4th saw the release of the following notable new albums, which you can sample a track from on this week’s playlist:
Wussy Forever Sounds (Damnably)
Anna Meredith Varmints (Moshi Moshi)
Låpsley Long Way Home (XL)
M. Ward More Rain (Bella Union)
Polica United Crushers (Memphis Industries/Mom+Pop)
Yndi Halda Under Summer (Burnt Toast/Big Scary Monsters)
Fatima Al Qadiri Brute (Hyperdub)
Wintersleep The Great Detachment (Dine Alone)
Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm Trance Frends (Erased Tapes)
The Coral Distance Inbetween (Ignition)
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P.S. A massive thank you to @TwitterMusicUK for their support of our initiative this week.