We don’t usually feature videos on BestNewBands.com unless they are brand-spankin’-new, but we decided to make an exception for thatwasthen’s “Angel Gabrielle.” Though the video was released only earlier this month, it has already garnered an impressive 39,000+ views (and counting) on YouTube. And rightfully so. The band self-produced and self-directed the video near Malibu, CA at the end of 2012—all in one take. Though the concept is modest—the camera doesn’t move for the whole 4 and-a-half minutes and features…

Leave it to a guy/girl duo to create a new type of seductive, lucid dream pop. Love Echo has self-described its music as “post-dreampop, post-chillwave, post-electroindiepop, post-post-twee, post traumatic stress disorder,” and oddly enough, that’s not far off. Consisting of producer Vic Miranda and vocalist Vicki Glass, the two-piece strives to make goosebump-inducing music and may have managed just that in its latest single, “Control.” Today, we are excited to premiere this latest offering, which appears on the collective’s forthcoming…

The Winter Sounds is a dedicated band, to say the least. The quartet has been making music together since 2007, and in that short amount of time has played 500 shows and released five records, three of which were full-length LPs. In November, the indie pop collective dropped its latest album, Runner , and today we are excited to premiere the music video for its latest single, “Shoulders Above.” The song’s story is an interesting one. It was written for…

  Glasgow, Scotland has birthed a slew of buzz bands—the most recent being Frightened Rabbit, The Twilight Sad and The Vaselines—and Olympic Swimmers hope to be next on the list. The quintet has been creating beautifully melancholic indie rock since 2009 and released its debut full-length, No Flags Will Fly, in June. Today, we are excited to premiere “Fallen Trees,” the latest single off the album. Led by Susie Smillie’s balmy vocals, the song marches forth with the help of…