By Adam Hamza
We are always thinking of new ways to allow you guys to enjoy music and help new artists get heard. What is our latest venture? Well, it’s nothing groundbreaking, but we hope you will enjoy it.
The Ultimate Indie and Alternative Playlist (yes we are trying to think of a shorter name) is our new playlist featuring the newest songs as well as some old favourites. It will be collated by the ICM team and updated each Thursday to keep it fresh.
At the moment, there are 20 songs next week there will be another 20 added to make 40 songs. Each week after that 20 songs will be added and removed alongside an article showcasing some of the new music that will be added.
It is currently on Spotify and SoundCloud, but we will expand to other platforms if the demand is there.
The first playlist published today features artists big and small, across the indie spectrum. The small indie band Those Handsome Animals are included with their song, ‘Doing Fine’. It’s an excellent example of the amazing new indie that comes from London.
More indie comes from Lisbon, a band that creates songs that are energetic and lively, the track we have included ‘I Don’t Know’ is no exception. If you like this, you should love Model Aeroplanes track ‘Deep In The Pool’.
We had to put some Swiss Lips in there too after their new album, with ‘Got it Bad’, this is accompanied by another indie pop song from Powers, ‘Beat of My Drum. It shares some of it’s characteristics with Maroon 5.
We also have an alt-pop song from The Watermelons, with the main song from their new EP, ‘Best of you’.
We have only just scratched the surface here, so go ’n’ have a listen for yourself!
Follow the playlist on Spotify and SoundCloud to keep up to date!
