Johnny Fever's Not Pop Not Indie Shambhala 2014

Hmm, is this on the pop side of the topological saddle?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke0eU3Tl8DE

New eponymous album, m/f singers, consistently good singles - I can see where many who gave into Paramore last year will dig this.

Kind of reminds me of Metric mixed with something in a Hyundai commercial.

Apologies for not keeping this thread hopping. My usual rabid appetite for digging up new music isn't as rabid as its been in recent years.

French dream pop, with a side of Michael Jackson's dance moves:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzFYmz2lfT4

I was a big fan of her ep from last year.

I have a bunch of stuff I've been meaning to post - not sure if it fits the not-pop-not-indie in the right way but I'll give em a shot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk52XHSpmF4

Enjoying a few HAERTS tracks recently

Not massively gotten into iamamiwhoami, beginning to think that might've been a mistake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIr2SJlzXvc

Imagine this is classed purely as pop but wth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwS7o21DvHA

Sounds like a TV ad from the 80s crossed with 'Bette Davis eyes'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GjTue81Vk4

This has grown on me a bunch, also sounds a bit like an 80s TV ad, with Knife-style steel drums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHW1y-2YBlE

OK, one more, just discovered this today but another Swedish Knife-esque electro pop band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raqxctNC04k

Kate Boy has been my next big thing for the past year. They signed to Fiction records, finished the album a week ago, and it should be out later this year. They're probably more inspired by 80s Peter Gabriel or Kate Bush, but given Kate's inflections, end up in the Knife-alike category. I've been planning to carpetbomb a new thread once we have an album release date.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP2atECFIFs

Just found the 'rolling like The Knife' thread :)
Sure there was a witch-house one too but can't find it

Is Emm Gryner too poppy or too indie (she does run her own label) for Mr. Fever? She seems to get little play in either pop or indie circles, though I dunno if its because she's too obscure or because she's been around for so long, so I don't think she's at all out of place itt. Her latest single is a duet with a Canadian astronaut:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmBEl94JSOs

It's not my bag, but I get the appeal I guess.

just thought i would say that the kyla la grange album is really good and deserves to be talked about by a lot more people

emm gryner!

(the answer to your question, sadly, is that the sort of music she makes is covered by basically no one anymore, unfortunately, unless you're courtney barnett or whoever)

I haven't paid any attention to Little Daylight before because I just assumed they were a CHVRCHES clone (which they kind of are), but I heard this song "Mona Lisa" Saturday morning and it stayed in my head all weekend.

http://soundcloud.com/littledaylight/mona-lisa

just thought i would say that the kyla la grange album is really good and deserves to be talked about by a lot more people

A lot of it is more slow and samey than I'd hoped for, but I've only listened to it three times. Need to bond with it some more. Title track is still one of my favorite songs of the year, though.

Does Total Control fit this thread?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0jueiOZH4w

I like it. It seems maybe a little more like it's trying to recreate an old sound than draw from it in a new way, but it does a good job.

came across that HAERTS track listening to the Classixx Artist Radio station on Spotify and immediately bought it.

I love this HAERTS track, but it's still unofficially released anywhere: https://soundcloud.com/haertsmusic/call-my-name

This is pretty good. Not a million miles from St Etienne.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS5paNae-ss

The tragically named Mr. Little Jeans has won me over with this title from earlier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_2TR3p7Qkk

Lots of overlap between the things mentioned here and the things in this:

http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/75TlYFXWaDllyenFkbPMNp

although that list has no "not" agenda, and so definitely has lots of pop.

Thanks! I thought I hardly listened to any music any more but 80% of that stuff is in my regular rotation so bodes well..
Including Uh huh her, Savoir adore, Frankmusik, Sound of Arrows which I haven't listened to in a while

The MS MR needs to be the chvrches remix imo

You probably need to check out the Kitten album too

Big fan of Woman's Hour from previous singles. Glad their album doesn't disappoint in the slightest.

i was listening to a spotify station in the shower last week and that Mr. Little Jeans song came on and I went "wow, this is good!" so I looked to see who it was and when I saw the name my heart sank. Good song though.

glenn / seandalai / Johnny - thanks so much for your linking your Spotify playlists on various threads, found so many amazing jams through them.

In particular Fredi Michel 'Oye Poh!' on, I think, seandalai's playlist. Absolute fun party-Goat vibes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psbD2J1XaUY

^ dope

where is ms 51

Dessert - Player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C07Zm8EG4co
Better sound quality at soundcloud

Megan Washington (better known in Australia) is doing indie pop these days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8LsswiDj_o

I like that one a lot.

Ninsun Poli's Breaking Rules EP is great. Here's the title track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL3yWRczUhc

What the hell, this was winsome too, despite the movie tie-in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExeEG9ZODOE

New Haerts! Album due at the end of October, apparently.

https://soundcloud.com/haertsmusic/giving-up

Actually, upon giving this a listen, it's kind of disappointing. They've definitely got better songs and if this is how they want to introduce themselves to the public at large then they need better advisors. That said, I'm still optimistic about the album.

On the bright side, "Call My Name" is officially released now as the b-side to this single.

was thinking of plonking down $50 to see them at a festival in DC that also includes Future Islands and Tove Lo. Conflicted about it.

ha, that Bird & Bee one is nice but sounds too much like this alphabet learning tape we had for my little brother...
"we're the pixies from the wood.."

Really liking this: Kleerup + Susanne Sundfør

https://soundcloud.com/kleerup/kleerup-let-me-in-feat-susanne-sundfor/

although "“Let Me In” will be impossible to evade in the coming months as it leads a global H&M campaign which is complemented by visuals directed by the legendary Jonas Åkerlund" :(

that Hearts one sounds like 'Stop Whispering' by Radiohead

that new kleerup is really good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETGA2zZKDLE

Fully listened to that Thomas Barfod album today while driving around running errands and "Busy Baby" required repeated listens when I got to that wicked deep bass synth in the choruses.

That Tomas Barford album is really good but it's the Nina K collaboration tracks that are outstanding.

I predict Johnny Fever will dig this:

Bertie Blackman - Run For Your Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qczcJqyiRQ

Yep!

I've listened to some Bertie Blackman on soundcloud before, but had never heard this track before. So great!

definite kate-bush-in-her-quieter-moments sort of voice too

Claire Brentnall does little to dispel this comparison, even visually.

kyla la grange is apparently getting dance/rhythmic airplay?

Not pop not indie in a Curve-esque sense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-resx75xS6M

Yeah, that's good stuff. Looking forward to an album.

Suspect JF has heard this, but if not it seems in his wheelhouse:

Ballet School - Heartbeat Overdrive (from 2014 debut, The Dew Lasts an Hour)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GjTue81Vk4

I liked a couple songs on that record, but couldn't really get with the whole thing.

it's a great album!

i know it's an old song but i was ridiculously addicted to 'all things return at night' after i listened to that album. like play-it-five-times-in-a-row addicted

'ghost' was the other song i really liked iirc

Johnny Fever's Not Pop Not Indie Shambhala 2015

lol just catching up with this thread since I had a babba and didn't realise there's a whole new one!
Last music I downloaded was lullabye versions of The Smiths.

Congrats on babby.

Thanks. I posted that Ballet School song itt last year btw :)
Nearly went to see them live about a week before my baby was due but the start time was 11.30pm, which, no.