Obscure Sound: Indie Music Blog

Australian composer and producer Dan Webb draws on Taoist and Buddhist ideas of death and rebirth for his fifth album, Lion Dance, an instrumental collaboration with musicians whose credits span work with Prince, David Bowie, Radiohead, Thundercat, and the Rolling Stones. Written following Webb’s move from Melbourne to Singapore, the record m...

The excellent debut album from Haikunika, Veronica Polo’s electronic project, Ludorigen draws on decades of experimentation with technology and sound, moving between downtempo electronica, ambient composition, and experimental pop. A former member of Pittsburgh’s experimental electronic collective Operation Re-Information, Polo composed, prod...

Bristol, UK-based five-piece Claudine brings together members of several local projects for its debut EP, Live In The Garage, a three-song introduction to the group’s soft-psych folk-pop sound. The release follows a year of live activity around the city, with “Playlist” earning BBC Introducing in the West’s Weekly Earworm selection in Septemb...

Helsinki-based electronic alt-pop artist Conchis composed her second album, Gravity, entirely in her mind during a prolonged period of illness that left her unable to make music in the usual way. Imagining every melody, rhythm, chord, and lyric before eventually bringing the material into the studio, she shaped a record concerned with disrupt...

London-based queer solo project Strange DNA uses horror imagery while exploring identity, transformation, and the experience of feeling like an outsider on new single “Reanimate.” That approach takes a pointedly personal direction here, using the idea of things that refuse to stay buried to address the lingering weight of racism, homophobia, a...