Originally written by Sean Adams · 16 January 2017
The first Independent Music Monday of the year is a bumper edition featuring Laura Marling, Flaming Lips, Nine Inch Nails, Los Campesinos!, The xx, and lots more.
What is Independent Music Monday?
Every Monday, Sean Adams, the editor of Drowned in Sound compiles an alternative to #NewMusicFriday. The playlist celebrates the best new releases from Independent labels.
Subscribe on your platform of choice and every week you'll find 20-50 new releases from independent labels and independent artists. Some choices tracks arrived online in the past few days from brand new acts or forthcoming albums, whilst others are select cuts from new albums that were just released.
Your can learn more about this playlist and browse the archive at http://independentmusicmonday.tumblr.com
How to submit? You can submit tracks by emailing Spotify links to IMMplaylist@gmail.com.
Track of the Week
'Wild Fire' by Laura Marling
Proving that age ain't nothin' but a number, Laura Marling once again delivers something with the heft and heart of artists three times her years. This track is taken from Semper Femina, her first release since leaving the major label system, and with this newfound freedom you can hear her melodies and production fluttering into ever more exciting corners, leaving her gliding on that course to become the greatest living songwriter.
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This Week's New Additions
Laura Marling - Wild Fire Blaenavon - Orthodox Man Minus The Bear - Invisible All Them Witches - 3-5-7 Los Campesinos! - 5 Flucloxacillin Rose Elinor Dougall - Stellular R.Seiliog - Myopia The Flaming Lips - How?? Nine Inch Nails - Dear World, Anna Of The North - Oslo Matthew Dear - Wrong With Us - DJ-Kicks The xx - Lips Lydia Ainsworth - The Road Bonobo - Break Apart (feat. Rhye) Peter Silberman - New York Minor Victories - Scattered Ashes - Orchestral Variation Brian Eno - Reflection (Excerpt) A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Gare du Nord, Pt. 1 Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - We Forget Who We Are Soft Error - You Caught Up Alexis Taylor& Green Gartside - Repair Man - Blended Mix CUT_ - Undertow SOHN - Dead Wrong VÉRITÉ - Phase Me Out KLARA - Breathe Harlea - You Don't Get It Alice Jemima - No Diggity Flo Morrissey and Matthew E. White - Suzanne Johnny Flynn - Raising the Dead Julie Byrne - Follow My Voice Zooey - Time to Get Alone Diet Cig - Tummy Ache Cabbage - Free Steven Avery (Wrong America) You Me At Six - Take on the World Less Than Jake - Things Change Pissed Jeans - Ignorecam Ten Fé - Twist Your Arm Carson Cox & Sam York & Austin Brown - Fire Dance Mick Harvey & Channthy Kak - Contact The Balconies - Middle of the Night Black Star Riders - Testify or Say Goodbye Emptyset - Border The Gravity Drive - Kaleidoscope CHRISTON - Bonfire MALKA - Breakout Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Don't Fight Back Flume feat. Tove Lo - Say It (Illenium Remix) Hippo Campus - way it goes Tinariwen - Sastanàqqàm Turbostaat - Die Tricks der Verlierer The Raveonettes - PENDEJO
ICYMI - Listen to: Best of 2016 Spotify Playlist
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