March is poor for many things but it turned out to be a great month for music discovery. I’ve been hanging out, waiting for Spring to arrive on something other than just the calendar. We’re almost to mid-April now, but it still seems worth sharing some music discovered in March. Add these to your Spring playlist for walking in the sunshine or sitting inside waiting for the showers to cease.
Highlighted Indie Releases
The playlist features 41 great tracks of mostly indie rock, punk and post-punk. It’s hard to pick highlights, but here’s a taste. Follow the links to their bandcamp pages to support them directly.
Onsloow – Nothing But a Memory: Combining elements of my fave all time band Superchunk and my obsession du jour The Beths, Onsloow deserves to be as well known as both of those two indie rock darlings. From Trondheim, Norway, this is “rousing and dreamy powerpop [with an] undercurrent of pop punk flair, with gritty edge on the guitars that hides behind fun and pop friendly choruses.” (bandcamp)
Weird Nightmare – Searching For You: Weird Nightmare is METZ’s Alex Edkins. This is the first song released in advance of a full length in May on SubPop, who describe it as “contain[ing] all of his main band’s bite with an unexpected, yet totally satisfying, sweetness.” It forms a good pair with the Onsloow track above, and showing similar influences, Weird Nightmare will be opening for Superchunk when they hit Toronto this June.
Horsegirl – Anti-Glory: Experimental, shoe-gazey rockers Horsegirl were featured previously on the 2021-a-Day blog about this time last year. The band has been buzzy on the indie music scene and are gearing up to release a full length called Versions of Modern Performance this June. This track is a sneak peek.
Yawners – Rivers Cuomo: Pop/rock from Madrid, Spain. From the forthcoming May Release Duplo, “Big riffs, big feelings, big tunes. Yawners high energy indie rock feels like a crush.” (Bandcamp)
Ex-Void – Churchyard: From the March released Bigger Than Before. “Ex-Vöid, formed by Joanna Gruesome singers Lan McArdle and Owen Williams, draw on guitar pop through the ages – The Byrds, Big Star, Teenage Fanclub – and attack it with the ferocity and economy of a hardcore punk band.” (bandcamp)
Loose Fit – Social Graces: My infatuation with Australian indie music continues. Post-punk/no-wave sounds, this is the title track from an album to be released later in April.
2021 a Day Indie Music Playlist 