This new indie rock songs playlist for October 2019 includes some creepy songs from Casino Garden, Chaser Eight, among others. Get spoooked.
Casino Garden – Wuppertal, Germany
Chaser Eight – New Haven, Connecticut
Audio For Gemini – Edinburgh, Scotland
GU¥ – Winchester, England
KYLO – Toronto, Ontario
Casino Garden – “Eternal Monster”
Just in time for Halloween, the grungy, shoegazed track, “Eternal Monster,” chugs along with a particularly spooky feel.
The song is from the Wuppertal, Germany indie rock band Casino Garden’s new album, Get Your Shit Together.
If you get a chance to listen to it (stream below), GYST is a real experience for fans of mixing indie rock, shoegaze, post-grunge and lo-fi-leaning post-punk.
The album is brimming with heavy, engaging shoegaze vibes created by multiple buzzing guitars, booming percussions, and gorgeous melodies.
The band’s fans and new followers – many of which are dedicated shoegazers online – started massing around the band last year after the release of Casino Garden’s debut album, Slide.
Another recent single from the album is the brash lo-fi, post-grunge track, “Clover,” which demonstrates a maturation in the band’s songwriting process since their debut.
One of the band’s fans wrote on their Bandcamp page of the new releases: “There are some really killer melodies like the ones in “Fallen Leaves in Summertime” or in “Sunrise in Jail,” which has a guarantee for goosebumps. But my highlight next to “The Devil Comes Home,” a perfect opener, is “Eternal Monster,” a real monster track with a [sic] exciting and stirring development and a very touching melody.”
Formed in 2016, Casino Garden, from Wuppertal, Germany, is Matthias Wiercinski (guitar, vocals); Oliver Kroker (bass); Helene Ballke (keys), and Alexander Alaimo Di Loro (drums).
The band members have a wide range of musical influences, including and most predominantly, Radiohead, Nirvana, Slowdive, Trail of Dead, Beatles, Tocotronic, and Ride.
Stream or Get A Copy of “Get Your Shit Together”
Chaser Eight – “Playing With Fire”
Not many indie rock bands can say they’ve opened for popular indie and rock bands like Panic! At The Disco and Local H. But New Haven’s Chaser Eight can because they did.
Known for their blistering alternative rock, Chaser Eight just released their latest album, Tell Me Lies, on October 18, 2019.
Their new thrashing, guitar blazing, and reverb-driven single, “Playing With Fire,” struts along with a big rock sound that is ready for a rock arena show.
The track sports a sinister vibe, and together with its dangerous title, comes off as an appropriate track for this Halloween season.
Chaser Eight has become a staple of the Connecticut rock scene and is known nationally thanks to a strong online following they’ve built up over the years.
The band members are *AUDRA* (vocals/guitar); Pat Walsh (guitar/vocals); Brennan DiLernia (bass); Eliav Nachmani (drums), and Jess Wolfer (backing vocals).
It’s great to see that there are still many kick-ass rock bands that are doing their thing.
Audio For Gemini – “The Red Tree”
Longtime ‘cosmic’ recording artist Nathan Allison, aka Audio For Gemini, writes and records dark pop guitar-oriented music that also ventures into the realms of rock, metal and acoustic.
On his newest single, “The Red Tree,” the Scottish musician purposely set out not to record the ordinary track.
“I went for a stripped-down organic rock band sound blended with heavily processed drums, bass, and guitars.”
The song is the fourth track from his latest E.P. that was recorded, he says, ‘post band’ and mixed ‘in the box.’
Allison programmed and performed all of the music on the E.P. with help from a close friend, producer and mix engineer MixedbySaw.
“The arranging process is distilled down to its basic components to achieve some clarity in as blunt a way as possible to avoid the predictable textures of rock production,” he says.
“That said, all of the elements on this E.P. exist in exaggeration.”
While his music is over the top in ways and experimental, it has an originality that helps it stand out from the ordinary fare.
GU¥ – “3 Word Lie”
Winchester, U.K. artist Guy Matthews, aka GU¥, returns with a new single, “3 Word Lie,” a summertime-like pop-oriented track with plenty of heat on it.
This alt-pop track is bristling with bright guitars, a catchy earworm chorus, bumbling bass line, energetic drums and a full-throttle dose of summer fun (even in the autumn; remember summer?).
GU¥ has been creating music on and off for the past decade as a member of a number of bands and music projects. During the same period, he has struggled with bouts of depression, weight gain and renewal.
His musical style blends pop, rock and punk music, drawing on influences ranging from Deftones and Arcane Roots to Raleigh Ritchie and Deaf Havana.
“After taking some time out from music to get depressed and fat and subsequently un-depressed and un-fat,” he says, GUY is back with a “song that came from a desire to write something in the vein of catchy 80s inspired pop.”
His debut album, Lies, Lies & Dirty Lies, drops November 1st.
KYLO – “Solace”
Hailing from the northern music city of Toronto, electro-pop artist KYŁO released her third E.P., Exit, on October 7th DIY-style.
While her music is more radio pop-leaning than we usually listen to, we are impressed with her talents and rapid growth of fans in just a few years.
Her music has sometimes been compared to artists such as Banks and Abra, and yet KYLO does manage to drive a stake in the genre with her own more emotive, dance-like sonics on songs like “Solace” from the new E.P.
The trend of her tracks from her beginning in 2016 follows a pattern of catchy, experimental tracks with “sultry harmonies that are steeped in synth and reverb amidst echoey layers.”
Since last fall, she has also released two other well-received singles, “Your Eyes” and “Sometimes.”
She has performed in venues across the city, including the Danforth Music Hall for NXNE, The Drake, and The Baby G.
