Rolling right along with the best new DIY/indie tracks from our mailbox in this installment No. 3 of the Best New 2021 DIY Song Submissions, featuring artists and bands from Arizona to France, and Brazil to Israel. These are the best new DIY indie songs we’ve received via our mailbox.
Máquina Delírio – Florianopolis, Brazil
Rosesleeves – Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Breakup Films – Tel Aviv, Israel
Clint Slate – Paris, France
Victims of the New Math – Phoenix, Arizona
Máquina Delírio is an indie DIY duo from Florianopolis, Brazil. The duo’s new EP has just landed and it’s an interesting listen with a wonderful mixing of genres and influences. The opening track, “Cetacea,” is gripping and seductive, as well as timely, considering this is the year of the cetacea’s return.
Delírio adds and it “counts with the very special participation of a humpback whale, who kindly sang in the chorus.”
The duo features Erica Jung on drums and effects and Ricardo Marcin on vocals and strings. They’ve been playing and crafting songs together for four years.
After countless metamorphoses, the duo finally decided to record some of their tracks. The EP was recorded DIY after ‘countless metamorphoses.’ Major musical influences include Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Girl Band, Latin Music, IDLES, The Oh Sees.
Rosesleeves – “Growing Pains”
Rosesleeves is a 17-year-old experimental pop artist and producer from Buckinghamshire, England.
He delves into the boundaries between indie, alternative, EDM, and pop to create unique tracks full of feeling that take interesting new turns on tracks like his latest single, “Growing Pains.” The ambient pop-leaning track, Patel says, is based on a painful breakup with his best friend.
His musical influences, he says, are FKA Twigs, Bon Iver, Shrimp, Radiohead, and Purity Ring — as well as his friends and frequent collaborators Ezekiel and Noahh. Patel has also previously joined forces with upcoming artists such as Osquinn (formerly known as P4rkr), Midwxst, and Suckerpunk to create tracks that have been enjoyed by many.
About the track, he says: “The song doesn’t waste a second and starts with delicate vocals glistening against unorthodox piano samples and synths that bursts into a flood of alluring textures; thunder respresenting the storm of the last few days of friendship.”
Breakup Films – “Just Whenever”
Breakup Films‘ new single, ‘Just Whenever,” according to frontman vocalist and guitarist Ron Herscovici, “is a melancholic party song, incorporating musical themes borrowed from disco, dream pop and emo into an energetic ghost train, aspiring to create an atmosphere you can both dance and dissociate to.” That’s actually a great description that is evident after listening to the track a couple of times.
Breakup Films is a Tel Avi-based young band that formed in 2019 and have now released the debut EP My Head Is Always Somewhere Else .
The band infuses reverb-filled textures with straightforward, indie pop songwriting and has gradually gained a steady fanbase across the globe and nearly a half-million streams.
Major musical influences include Turnover, DIIV, The 1975, Neck Deep, The Smiths. Other band members are Hai Barbi – guitar, Shelly Reizis – vocals & bass, Noam Debel – drums. The band was founded in 2019.
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Clint Slate – “No Way Out”
The Paris-based indie musician Clint State has just released his latest single, “No Way Out.” The track blends a number of genres, including rock and folk, and is sweet and touching.
“Rock, pop, folk, electro and more fusion into a very personal recipe born out of guitar improvisations and spontaneous melodies,” Slate writes, adding that the new EP, The Silent Sea EP, “showcases a true team at work…to encapsulate all their influences and embark the listener on a unique and personal journey.”
Clint State was founded in 2015 after a Scottish nurse and a French musician meet by chance to write a song for a radio contest and things evolved from there. The duo’s musical influences are Queen, U2, Kate Bush, Clannad, NIN, among others. Clint Slate (vocals, instruments, production, songwriting) is backed by Iona James (vocals, piano, songwriting).
Victims of the New Math – “You’re Swimming”
The Phoenix-based lo-fi music of indie musician Thomas Young (vocals, guitars, bass and drums), aka Victims of the New Math, is greatly influenced by classic rock and indie rock, including artists like Guided By Voices, Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, and The Kinks. His memorable new single, “You’re Swimming,” is great for a summer afternoon.
The band writes about the track: “You’re Swimming’ is a song about trying to see the best in things, to have a better outlook. I tend to get bogged down in the melancholy, and really wanted to write something more positive and uplifting. It’s still got some melancholy, but it’s got a really encouraging message.
Young has been making music since his teenage years in the late 1980’s, and has been releasing music since 2006. Originally a duo, with Thomas being joined by his brother Joe, the band was formed with hopes of capturing the great AM rock sounds from their childhood. Never much for learning other people’s songs, the brothers almost immediately tried their hand at writing. And, with a few small gaps, pretty much never stopped.
His new album, Heading to the Suburbs, is out now.