This is the second volume of our favorite 2021 indie music video series from artists and bands across the globe. Not by design, there are two videos below that have seizure warnings for people who react to strobes and blinking lights.
Don’t miss the first volume of 2021’s best new indie music videos.
Arctic Lights – Cork, Ireland
The Melting Minds – Jakarta, Indonesia
Saint Vice – Raubling, Germany
Bradley Coomes – Louisville, Kentucky
Orion Vincent & Danny Schultz– Vancouver, British Columbia
Arctic Lights: “King of America”
Released: 1/15/2021
CORK, Ireland
Genre(s): Indie rock
SEIZURE WARNING: This video contains STROBE LIGHTING effects
Arctic Lights is a new music project by Liam O’Callaghan (Bulkhead) and Edward Butt (Emperor of Ice Cream), two Cork, Ireland who once opened for Manic Street Preachers. The duo’s debut EP, Tabula Rasa was released in January along with the ragging single cut, “King of America.” Butt is a bassist while O’Callaghan handles vocals, guitar and drums.
The Melting Minds – “The Snake”
Released: 1/28/2021
JAKARTA, Indonesia
Genre(s): Psychedelic Rock
Influences: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
SEIZURE WARNING: This video contains STROBE LIGHTING effects
Indonesia-based indie band The Melting Minds creates “musical experiments of imagination” by a guy known only as Slinky Bones. The musical project, formed in the ‘the apocalyptic year of 2020’, was spawned on the initiation of his long-term friend, Dhandy Satria (a.k.a Aamaga), through a long-distance connection between two major cities in Indonesia: Jakarta and Yogyakarta. Later guitarist Ahmad Tubagus joined along with bassist Restu Prabawa; synth/singer Yafet Yerubyan, and dual drummers Christian Gratia and Wawa Kzk to fulfill the “fractal-chaotic and sonic-synergies” aspirations of the Slinky Bones guy.
Saint Vice – “Calling For Backup”
Released: 02/03/2021
RAUBLING, Germany
Genre(s): Indie Pop
Influences: Justin Timberlake, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Keys
The fresh single, “Calling For Backup”, is the debut single from the German band Saint Vice. Spearheaded by guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Nick Reitmeier, the band also includes musicians Tim Buchanan (drums), Elias Herb (bass), and Phil Maze (guitar).
Reitmeier’s background includes solo albums that made the German album charts as well as his songs that appeared in television and film. He sang with Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music), supported inter alia Thees Uhlmann, The BossHoss, and worked with U.S. producer Damien Lewis (Katy Perry, Rihanna).
Bradley Coomes – “Are We Fast Enough?”
Released: 01/29/2021
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky
Genre(s): Instrumental, shoe gaze, post-rock
Influences: My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Cocteau Twins, Michael Rother, Dino Jr.
Solo songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Bradley Coomes is a veteran of the Louisville music scene. During the past two decades, he has opened for bands like Spoon, Brian Jonestown Massacre, and My Morning Jacket. His terrific debut single as a solo artist, “Are We Fast Enough?” is from his debut album The Work. Coomes played, recorded, and mixed all of the guitar, bass, synths, and vocals.
Orion Vincent ;amp Danny Schultz
Released: 2/7/2021
VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Genre(s): rap, rock, ska, hiphop
Influences: Linkin Park, Fort Minor, Limp Bizkit
Long-time Vancouver musicians Orion Vincent and Danny Schultz met on a gig and realized their similar tastes and goals with music. Vincent, a 20-year rapper, and Schultz, a vocalist in ska and rock bands for a decade, each grew up heavily into bands like Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit.
Therefore, the duo decided to combine the two genres of rap and rock on the LP Toxic Wasteland, featuring the track and video, “Alone”. They’ve opened previously for bands like Onyx, Merkules, DJ Roc Raida, Snak The Ripper
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