Sounds like: The Beatles, The Lemon Twigs, Ratboys

What's so good?

This one goes out to the romantics, the hopefuls, the hopeless, the ones who opens their heart to the ones they love and trust. "For The First Time, Again" is an emotional, acoustic ballad perfect for reminiscing under your favorite tree. There's nothing boundary pushing or too exotic about this song, but it's a beatiful song that cuts straight to your soul which houses all of the feels. Hell, I might throw this on my wedding playlist. 

1. Original post: Tyler Ballgame - For The First Time, Again

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Sounds like: Thievery Corporation, Kid Loco, Nightmares On Wax, Eric Hilton

What's so good?

The world seems to be getting crazier by the year. If you are on Indie Shuffle, that means music is your pleasure, your escape. Let us introduce you to the song "Unlimited Dreams Corporation," a tune off of their latest album Unlimited Dreams Corporation. It's the opening track to the LP, setting a calming, meditative mood for your busy mind. 

They include excerpts of mindfulness monologues, while smooth and buttery grooves resonate in the background. We encourage you to use the song to next time you are becoming overstimulated and anxious. Go ahead and release the tension. 

1. Original post: Brigade - Unlimited Dreams Corporation

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Sounds like: Still Woozy, Joji, Jean Dawson

What's so good?

Asal meets us at the intervention with a delicate, stylish, and powerful confession with "Tolerance."  

"I've built the tolerance of a hippopotamus " is a line that will replay in my head for weeks. it's fun, earwormy, and that is where Asal has achieved something great . They have designed a song around a serious theme in a way that keeps me coming back for more while also understanding the heavy themes within its space. "Tolerance" is Asal opening their heart to us, but they can't help but do it in the most stylish way possible. 

1. Original post: Asal - Tolerance

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Sounds like: Cosmo Sheldrake, Andy Shauf, Khruangbin

What's so good?

Tom Misch slows down the world with "Echo From The Flame," a warm and calm midnight track. 

"Echo From The Flame" is a lonely room in a big house, and you only have the heat of the fire keeping you company. Their soft track from their now-released album, Full Circle, feels intimate, soft-spoken, and honest. Far removed from Tom Misch's charm, it feels more like a beautiful elegy: a montage of magic and calm. Tom Misch has given in to his soft solo energy and "Echo From The Flame" makes me hungry for more, more soft spoken power and earnest yearning.

1. Original post: Tom Misch - Echo From The Flames

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Sounds like: Love Spells, Mac Miller, MINOVA

What's so good?

From Joji's new album, it's "Hotel California" that has my heart. 

It's simple and sweet but makes you feel something deep, but if you so wish to feel nothing at all, it's beauty will delight and distract. 

For the deep feelers or the numb, this one has you covered. 

1. Original post: Joji - Hotel California

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Sounds like: Anyma, Tree Giants, Scoobert Doobert

What's so good?

Like a respectful director, BUNT takes the beauty of Temper Trap's original "Sweet Disposition" and remixes it for a new age with "What If You Fly," and the two minds mold into a beautiful experience. 

BUNT's reimagining of Temper Trap's classic feels more like a tribute than anything; it feels like a love letter to a sound we all miss, an old family member that had gone and left, and now we all just sit with the memories. "What If You Fly" is hopeful and powerful and a beaming electro dance track that gripped my soul.

1. Original post: The Temper Trap - What If You Fly (Sweet Disposition) (BUNT Remix)

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Sounds like: Santigold, Arctic Monkeys, The Neighbourhood

What's so good?

Temper City's "Self Aware" is one for the homepage. It captures attention with every spin and so I trust it will capture yours too. 

It's got that indie rock and alt rock edge. It plays it cool and let's you come to it. 

Safe to say I gave in! 

1. Original post: Temper City - Self Aware

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Sounds like: My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive

What's so good?

I don't know where you're reading this from, but I'm in the middle of a torrential downpour at the time of writing this. It couldn't have been more perfect timing because "Spider Song" is a track that really shines during intense, inclement weather. 

The songs gently lets you into flyingfish's world with nice, clean guitaring and airy vocals. Then, suddenly, you get sucker punched with a wave of reverb and distortion, the special sauce for any Shoegaze fan. The heavy lyrics also add a ton a bricks to the already emotional instrumentation. Settle in, and let the storm of sounds take you. 

1. Original post: flyingfish - Spider Song

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Sounds like: Teebs, Lapalux

What's so good?

It's not every day that you stumble across a song of genuine hit quality before it's even registered a few thousand streams. There are a few categories that come to mind. There are tracks sitting in the four-digit range that are good, but whose relative anonymity is probably warranted. Then there are others, also in that range -- around 5k streams or so -- that simply haven't been discovered yet but are almost certain to blow up. Kind of like Fcukers when Jason and I first heard them, to give a more recent example. Most of the time, though, you find solid tracks already sitting somewhere between 10k and 100k+ listens.

So why lay all this out? Because "stickman" doesn't seem to have any registered plays on Spotify yet. And beyond that, it's of the highest quality, with serious potential. It's the kind of discovery you only make when you wander deep into the indie music maze. I found this one buried in a playlist by Alice Costelloe, who popped up on my radar at The Great Escape -- a grassroots music conference and festival held annually in Brighton.

ryan malcs is a London based musician who is also a producer, songwriter, and occassional keys player for the massive Wolf Alice . I'm not surprised the song is this good and has had so little promotion. I would consider that the Digital Age's version of humility. I'm genuinely revved up to dig in to his EP, go slowly.

1. Original post: ryan malcs - stickman

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Sounds like: Vince Staples, Mac Miller, Kevin Abstract

What's so good?

If you are looking for the perfect song to cruise right into the summer, look no further. Isaiah Rashad delivers his feel good tune "CAMERAS," off of his latest album IT'S BEEN AWFUL. His infectious flow and vulnerability brings us to the open roads with our closest friends keeping you company in your beat up slab. 

And to send you from the open roads into the stratosphere's fresh air, none other than Dominic Fike comes in and opens the rest of the world to you. Breathe in, breathe out. 

1. Original post: Isaiah Rashad - CAMERAS

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Sounds like: Portishead, Radiohead, Massive Attack

What's so good?

Puma Blue brings us a hypnotic song aptly named "Hold You." It's an emotional sledgehammer to the soul via airy, lingering vocals and haunting sonic ambience. It's one of the songs to listen to during a torrential downpour while you get lost in your own thoughts. His signature crooning caresses you like a gentle bear hug with a dark, gloomy cloud hanging above. But in the end, you are only hugging yourself. It's beautifully melancholic.

1. Original post: Puma Blue - Hold You

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Sounds like: Durand Jones & The Indications, Thee Sacred Souls, Pale Jay

What's so good?

"Boru" is one of the latest rips from the Indonesian groove armada called Thee Marloes. This song takes you back to those warm memories of barbeques on a hot summer day, or that elusive glory nap on the side of a grassy hill those many years ago, stress free. They sing in both English and Indonesian, but you don't need to know Indonesian to understand where they're coming from. "Boru" is an absolute heart warmer.  

1. Original post: Thee Marloes - Boru

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Sounds like: Rufus Du Sol, laum

What's so good?

Step 1: Have "Find My Way" by maybe m... ready at hand.

Step 2: Light candles and put on a good pair of headphones.

Step 3: Dance, release, give energy back into the world, and rid it of any negativity through your movement.

Step 4: Arrive at the present moment.

Step 5: Stay a while. You’ve found your way.

1. Original post: maybe m... - find my way

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What's so good?

1. Original post: Goose Down - Privatefile

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What's so good?

1. Original post: Lullabies - Quarter Till

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What's so good?

1. Original post: Supermarket Sunset - it could be worse

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What's so good?

1. Original post: IMAGINEA - Néon Totem (Tribal Mix)

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Sounds like: Mac DeMarco, Dominic Fike

What's so good?

I’ve heard two stories recently from people whose relationships ended abruptly. After a reunion for closure, the former loved one on the other end of the table seemed like a stranger. They both expressed how it felt like they had to mourn someone who was still alive, as the person they knew had essentially died.

Hotel Ugly’s "Shut Up My Mom’s Calling" is a sonic snapshot of this experience, with lyrics like, "You got me feeling so lonely / Even when you come through / I can tell that it isn’t you." The chorus is a heartfelt plea for the loved one to come home.

To be human is to take our mental hooks and latch them onto people, places, and things that hold fast for only a limited time. How we deal with the object turning to smoke and our hook coming loose is what captures my attention. May we all find pathways to our own inner strength.

1. Original post: Hotel Ugly - Shut up My Moms Calling

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Sounds like: David Guetta, Cobrah, AYYBO

What's so good?

SOFI TUKKER bubbles up our basic lives with "Boba," a bombastic, eccentric, and downright fabulous jam. 

"Boba" is the pinnacle of montage tracks ; it feels like a tennis match at max speed, energy thrown everywhere, sweat dripping, the sun hitting, and all around people cheering. It's match point, and I need to get some "Boba. " Auteurs of the electronic space, SOFI TUKKER aren't strangers to fun jams, but "Boba" is different ; "Boba" feels fun and cinematic at the same time. 

It's bubbly, it's joyful, and it's a perfect jam.

1. Original post: SOFI TUKKER - Boba

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Sounds like: Broken Bells, Electric Guest

What's so good?

Oh geez, I like this. My hopes were really high going into it, so I was quite worried that I'd be let down. But I wasn't.

The Neighbourhood used to be regulars on Indie Shuffle, so it's probably little surprise that we're here to deliver their newest single "Devil's Advocate."

The song is set to be included on an upcoming album titled Chip Chrome & The Mono-Tones, available for pre-order here.It's shipping some time in October, and hopefully there'll be one or three more singles to digest before then.

1. Original post: The Neighbourhood - Devil's Advocate

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Sounds like: NEIL FRANCES, Wallners, NAYAD

What's so good?

Zimmer90’s “Summer Rain” has been sitting with me in a really easy way. It’s one of those tracks that slips into your day with ease. 

There’s a steady rhythm to it that feels grounding, like something you can just exist alongside. I’ve been putting it on during slower moments and letting it play through without overthinking.

It’s simple, and that’s more than enough.

1. Original post: Zimmer90 - Summer Rain

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Sounds like: The Prodigy, LCD Sounsystem, Black Beach

What's so good?

Jasper Dean crashes into the bank on the back of a giant monkey with "TELEMONKEY" and destroys everything in beautiful chaos. 

With their debut LP, TOY COLLAGES, just around the corner, Jasper Dean has wasted no time with introductions; their sound is manic, beautiful, and grungy. The cutting synths and the booming VHS- era vocals can't help but leave a smile on your face. There is nowhere to run while this monkey is raging through the building. Best to just stand back and enjoy the show, and what a show it is. 

1. Original post: Jasper Dean - TELEMONKEY

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Sounds like: warner case, veggi, Butch

What's so good?

Hello Indie Shuffle, I haven't written in a long time, but I do still exist. My brain still works, so, I can still write. I listen to music, of course, which means I've obviously stumbled on lots of good music that should be on the blog. There's a lot for me to catch you up on. But, you see, I drifted off into the ether somewhere, perhaps it was a land called "Me no bloggy music Land." It's just west of Germany, but I won't bore you with those details.

Anyways, on my journey I found this beautiful remix by kryptogram. The Serbian has offered Night Tapes' song a fabulous, synth-laden skip -- and my word is it skippy. 

It's been danced to, in my underwear, often. It's been with me in good moments, and some bad ones too, and now it has a home here on Indie Shuffle. 

Geniet ervan allemaal! 

1. Original post: Night Tapes - drifting (kryptogram Remix)

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Sounds like: Gorillaz, Tame Impala, Keshi

What's so good?

Joji frankensteins his own heart and identity on “Last of a Dying Breed.” There’s a sense of self-destruction and self-release running through the track. It plays like a cry for help wrapped in acceptance, as though the damage has already been done and all that’s left is surrender.

Joji emerged alongside the strange, rapid evolution of internet culture, and “Last of a Dying Breed” carries the weight of someone trying to stay emotionally intact while the world speeds up around them. There’s something almost overwhelming about how much Joji gives of himself here. And by the end of it, all I wanted to do was hold him for a second and say thank you.

1. Original post: Joji - Last of a Dying Breed

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Sounds like: Rohne, Nuage, Pecq

What's so good?

I didn’t expect trashlagoon’s “Feel” to land the way it did. It starts off unassuming, almost like background noise, and then somewhere along the line it just… clicks.

There’s a warmth to it that feels easy to sit in. Nothing is trying too hard, nothing is overexplained. It just moves at its own pace, and if you’re in the right headspace, it pulls you along without asking.

I’ve found myself going back to it more than I thought I would. It’s a quiet one, but it sticks.

1. Original post: Trashlagoon - Feel

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Sounds like: Cosmo Sheldrake, Andy Shauf, Retro Kid

What's so good?

Modern Diet invites us to a reading of their latest novel, "Maria," and I am so excited to get an autograph. 

Sometimes you take a book off the shelf, open up the pages, and read whatever line catches your eye, and you are sucked in forever. "Maria" by Modern Diet is the sound of modern literature ; it's quirky, it's strange, it's heartfelt, and it is wildly creative. Modern Diet plays with the typography of its story and sound the way a kid plays with unmatched Legos. 

"Maria" is intimate and contains so many little corners of magic. 

1. Original post: Modern Diet - Maria

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What's so good?

Okay, the original version of this song by Radiohead one of my favorite of all time. And by no coincidence, Kid A, the album it opens, is also one of my favorite albums of all time.

I actually wasn't expecting this remix when it came on - I was just playing Spotify's Release Radar in the background. But holy shit, once it kicked in, I felt I had an obligation to rush over and blog it.

Gigamesh has a really cool backstory about this song, which you can read here .

1. Original post: Gigamesh & Elohim & Thomas Adagio - Everything In Its Right Place (Radiohead Cover)

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Sounds like: Chelou, Labrinth,

What's so good?

There’s something quietly intentional about “BLUE SASHIKO” from Lucy Park. 

“BLUE SASHIKO” settles into its own rhythm, creating a space that feels both meditative and quietly emotional. 

Sit with this one. Let it loop. The pattern only gets clearer the longer you stay.

1. Original post: Lucy Park - BLUE SASHIKO

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Sounds like: Ariel Pink, Dirty Beaches,

What's so good?

It’s been a hot minute since I’ve obsessed over a song, but every time I open Spotify these days, I find myself pulled back to one track: John Maus’ “Do Your Best.”

It feels like a quiet night drive through the city, the wind low and the volume turned up. The kind of song that stays on repeat until something shifts, until a new chapter begins. And most fittingly, it’s one worth sharing on Indie Shuffle.

1. Original post: John Maus - Do Your Best

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Sounds like: Bibio, Kaki King

What's so good?

If someone came along and asked me "what does folktronica sound like?" I'd probably have to give them a Bibio song. 

... or this one by Ghost City.

I guess there's still a strong underlying Kaki King-esque guitar, but if you were to ask me this one fits the deifnition of folktronica pretty well.

1. Original post: Ghost City - Portrait

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What's so good?

1. Original post: Lullabies - Left In The Dust

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Sounds like: Gryr, Mounika, Passion Coco

What's so good?

Terror/Cactus twists the kaleidoscope of our mind and creates a beautiful garden of sound with "Transmisión Clandestina."

"Transmisión Clandestina" is a spinning dial of colors and feelings; like a colorful cloth in the wind, it beats and swishes in the calm breeze. It is the track that plays as a rainbow gains life, a slow bubbling of color , character, and charm all rubbing together until they fire off over the sky for all to see.

Terror/Cactus packs our bags for us and sends us off to lands of color and charm. 

1. Original post: Terror/Cactus - Transmisión Clandestina

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Sounds like: O'Flynn, Bonobo

What's so good?

We’ve been sitting on this one for a bit. “Pulsars” from Ardisia isn’t a quick fix or a blazing fire. It’s my perfect rhythm: slow, with a sense of peace and deeper emotion.

The song is beauty in sonic form. It takes its time while still letting you know to pay attention right from the start.

“Pulsars” does not demand your attention, it earns it, gently and completely.

1. Original post: Ardisia - Pulsars

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Sounds like: Quantic, Dave Nulty, Mounika

What's so good?

"Drift" from Gryr is a foggy, fast-moving ambient track built for the view.

The song feels like a low cloud of sound and hymns that build upon each other as they move through a valley. "Drift" pulses with a sense of fun and ease that could be mistaken for a lack of complexity. However, after a few more loops, it reveals itself for what it really is: a passionately crafted electronica track that comes from the heart.

1. Original post: Gryr - Drift

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Sounds like: Caribou, Mount Kimbie, Bibio

What's so good?

I’ve recently been stuck (happily) in a Nuage and Ishome rabbit hole, so it comes as no surprise that Sunrom’s “I Just Try” is currently catching my ears and heart. While most of my recent listening has been instrumental, a unique feature of Sunrom’s latest EP, Everlight, is that each track is marked by the Parisian artist’s vocals.

“I Just Try” is emotive from the outset, and as the track unfolds, the listener’s emotional pull deepens and intensifies. It’s a song that accompanies you on a journey, and it is equally a journey in and of itself.

1. Original post: Sunrom - I Just Try

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Sounds like: Leifur James,

What's so good?

1. Original post: Fugue State - So What Is There?

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Sounds like: Jungle, Maribou State

What's so good?

I was all over Slowdaze back in 2019/2020, picking up 3 songs in quick succession for the blog. Turns out it wasn't a fluke, beause flash forward 6+ years and he's still able to pique my interest.

"Opals" is a bit less vocal-focused and a bit more groove-focused. It's still recognizably Slowdaze, but there are major hints of acts like Jungle and Maribou State in there as well. The slow build up hits all the right notes and culminates wonderfully. Pretty sure it's going to be an easy-pleaser for most indie rock fans.

1. Original post: Slowdaze - Opals

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Sounds like: Gidge, Rival Consoles, Moderat

What's so good?

"Time can go

Time can go

Fast"

Weval's "Time Goes" is a reminder of a not-so-hidden secret: time marches ever forward. Thankful for any reminder that rids one of the forgetting, this sonic semblance is much appreciated. I hope you enjoy it too. 

1. Original post: WEVAL - Time Goes

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Sounds like: Trashlagoon, Good Kid, Tom Misch

What's so good?

Retro Kid lights up the night with "Found You," a strobing beam of joy.

It's quite astonishing how much joy I felt loading up " Found You " on my speakers. It hit like a shot of sugar into the bloodstream, glistening and crystalline, leaving me in a state of fizz and pop, like a well-timed sip of an orange-flavored soft drink . The track brings a smile and comfort to my face that I missed. 

"Found You" is the feeling of a brightly colored beach ball concentrated into a drink and served ice cold.

1. Original post: Retro Kid - Found You

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Sounds like: Keaton Henson, Bon Iver,Edwin Raphael

What's so good?

Jose Gonzales graces our souls again with "A Perfect Storm," a whirling wind of a track from his latest album, Against The Dying of The Light.

Jose Gonzales has always been a wailing ghost amongst the spirits and sounds of the indie space . With melancholic ballads like "Far Away" and beaming epics like "Stay Alive," he has always been like water, flowing and adjusting to the world's heart .

 With "A Perfect Storm," those waters are getting restless. "A Perfect Storm" flows and curves around itself in the wind of its aforementioned name; it builds and builds until the wave can't hold anymore and cracks under the pressure.

1. Original post: Jose Gonzalez - A Perfect Storm

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