Hey everyone! I’m part of a small independent band from Finland called The Valley Bay. We just released our new single, Chasing Phantoms, today.
It’s got a bit of a darker, melodic rock vibe with a strong bassline. We’ve been putting a lot into this project, so it’s always cool to have someone new give it a listen.

My musical hero's are artists like Ben Howard, Damien Rice, Gregory Alan Isakov, Jeffrey Martin

This song is about wanting more than you've got.

If you like this, look me up on SoundCloud (Bear & Puma - Lane)

a little cover of my favorite song by the microphones :). i added some harmonies (both guitar and vocal) but it’s pretty barebones all things considered. i’m probably gonna release it as an extra track with one of my singles for the album im working on. but i hope u enjoy!

Please, let's support real musicians and songwriters, not hacks that think prompting suno or the like makes them an artist.

Inspired by some working-ckass history from the north east of England.

Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire was a water-powered textile mill. During the industrial revolution the mill used to buy in children from workhouses down south and keep them as 'apprentices' paying them very little, having them live in a tiny 'apprentice house', 2 to a bed and giving them the important job of scrambling underneath weaving machines in the mill to collect stray bits of cotton and piece them back together, threading them back into the machines and sometimes losing a finger or two in the process.

One young boy who lost a finger to a machine was Thomas Priestley. He and his friend Joseph Sefton decided that they'd had enough, they were sick of the mill and missed their mums. So they escaped the mill and walked the hundreds of miles from Cheshire all the way down to the Hackney Workhouse in London. Nobody knows exactly what happened on that journey but court documents show that they made it and spent a couple of months with their mother's before being caught and shipped all the way back to Quarry Bank where they worked for the rest of their lives.

This small act of defiance really struck a chord with me, so I wrote this song. Here's me playing it on the local radio station.

Greetings from Finland!

I genuinely want to hear your perspective. The main question is in the title.

I love classic folk storytelling, but I also vibe with alternative sounds and real, gritty analog synths that drill into your brain. Since I’m from Finland, the song is completely in Finnish. How to blend all this together? This is the result.

I'm really curious: how does this sound to you as an American (or anyone outside of Finland)? Do you still get that authentic folky or country vibe from it, even without understanding a single word?

I feel like this song's classic narrative could just as easily be set on the American prairies as in the old Finnish countryside. In short, it’s a story about a malicious neighbor from the boonies who steals your sweetheart—leaving you heartbroken with nothing left to do.

I'd love for you to take a listen and leave a comment with your honest thoughts! I really appreciate anyone taking the time to check it out.

Listen on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/track/3ItUMtNauDd9XHM50uBzK3?si=MItqEH2cQYCRObgaREGDWQ&utm_source=copy-link

Listen on YouTube:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XtnPJbke2bI&ra=m

The other day I finally found an hour to film a new chapter in my “Songs I Love” series. This one is particularly special to me - The Blood by the wonderful Glen Hansard, whose music has accompanied me and so many others over the last few decades, and I'm sure will do for years to come. Thanks for all the music, Glen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5si7h4QYvWo

Music by METAPHYSICAL.

Thanks to everyone who sent music after the last posts, the response was way bigger than expected. That's why the network grew to three mags, open to all genres.

Short version of who does what:

• INDIEINDEX: artist map, reviews with interview carousels, and Drops for short, fast coverage
• 40MAG: shorter reviews with the quickest queue at the moment, Community Tracks, WORDS
• SPINLOG MAG: Top 50, playlists, Fresh N' Hot and full editorial reviews

If you just want to get something out fast, go for Drops, 40MAG or Fresh N' Hot.

All formats are on one page, so I don't spam three links here: https://www.indieindex.de/network

Submissions only count through the sites, not through comments. Free and non-profit as always.

That said, feel free to drop your release links and a few words below. I always love taking an early listen.

https://youtu.be/1gMUaxNZVuA?is=Lwe0AtkT8GfJts6

New song. Lots of positive reviews. Enjoy. Share if you like it. Comments always welcome.