Indigo Fire have returned with a synth rock beauty entitled 'Gone Away.' Gone Away draws upon events that happened years ago. But it could have been yesterday. Or it could be tomorrow. The emotions would be the same… a mix of hurt, bewilderment, frustration and anger that comes with the loss of something important. Heavy on the synths and vocals with a punchy drum line and more subtle guitar, Indigo Fire has tried to craft a catchy but poignant song.
ndigo Fire was formed in 2025 when old school friends, Guy Martland and Pete Burdon, finally put their heads together and started writing and recording their own songs. Although they never pursued music professionally, they have both played in various orchestras and jazz/blues bands over the years.
With Indigo Fire, they are venturing into a new genre (for them) as they try to create their own sound, drawing upon the various bands and artists who influenced them growing up, such as Depeche Mode, The Cure, New Order and Pink Floyd. With mixing and post-production help from their friend, Dan Skinner, they released their first single, Lyrics for a Song, in May 2025. Gone Away is the second single from Indigo Fire's forthcoming debut album, Incipient.
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Wilder Maker have shared two more songs from The Streets Like Beds Still Warm before the full record is out next Monday. The two tracks are "The Moon Says" & "Darkness Leaning Like Water Against the Windows". Those who visit us even occasionally will have probably picked up on the fact that Beehive Candy loves original, creative and unpretentious new music, Wilder Maker have ticked all those boxes for us, we are very impressed.
Band member Gabriel Birnbaum tells us, “The Moon Says” is a love song for someone who begs for help and refuses it at the same time, for someone who can’t love themself. It contains a beautiful saxophone contribution from Joseph Shabason, rhythm guitar/piano parts that slowly warp and bend as the song progresses, and a title that references one of my all time poets, Frank Stanford.
Brooklyn band Wilder Maker’s principal songwriter, Gabriel Birnbaum says that the group’s latest full-length, The Streets Like Beds Still Warm follows “an overall formal asymmetry, like dream logic.” It is richly textured, moody, and deep and is as distinctly narrative as it is literally experimental. To call it a concept album, as big as that term is, would actually be to sell it short. It is, in fact, only the first part of a concept trilogy that tells the tale of one long night in the city, from dusk to dawn.
The Streets Like Beds Still Warm follows a lonely narrator as he drifts down avenues and in and out of bars and hospital rooms. He thinks on big questions and bigger questions, gets into some trouble, worries about his sick father, grapples with rivals and competitors who could be his friends but are not; he orders cocktails, dreams he is a genius, thinks about God and fate and so on. The record closes out at around 1:15am, leaving the story to be continued. If this sounds a bit noirish, that’s because it is. “Film noir detectives always start out looking immaculate, but by the end of the film they have a torn collar, a black eye, their slacks are stained, and they’ve started slapping people around in desperation,” Birnbaum says. “Are they the good guy anymore? I find this fascinating and I love the visual cues reflecting the internal landscape.” While there are no visual cues, per se, on The Streets Like Beds Still Warm, the record owes a great debut to cinematography.
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Winnipeg band Living Hour releases "Best I Did It" today, the third single from their new album Internal Drone Infinity, out October 17 via Keeled Scales. Lyricist Sam Sarty writes: "In the end, the song is about confronting a lot of dark feelings head-on, and not just driving by or looking for a distraction. I really like singing the line 'I’m just out here to try my medicine,' because that’s truly all I can do. All I can do is try to prioritize all the forms of medicine at my disposal."
Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Living Hour experiences long winter seasons characterized by thick, grey sky and a colourless cityscape. A lot of the lyrics in this song are built around this colour landscape, and how Sarty confronts these intensely grey feelings.
Despite the gloom giving birth to the song, Sarty says the chorus is a hopeful reminder to herself. "I imagine myself 10 years from now looking back at this song and thinking of all the ways I’ve tried to heal myself, and saying I did the best I could. I’m doing the best I can."
Living Hour worked with engineer/producer Melina Duterte (Jay Som), who previously worked with boygenius, Whitmer Thomas, and Lucy Dacus. Living Hour's combination of hushed lyrics and fuzzed-out guitar calls to mind artists like Squirrel Flower, Soccer Mommy, and Slow Pulp.
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