flakebelly
@flakebelly.bsky.social
Indie, Acoustic & Psychedelic music from The Western Isles of Scotland.
"Extensive and wildly eclectic sonic adventures" - Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music
The Boy In The Diving Bell: out NOW - https://flakebelly.bandcamp.com/
"Extensive and wildly eclectic sonic adventures" - Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music
The Boy In The Diving Bell: out NOW - https://flakebelly.bandcamp.com/
Solipsism. Bandcamp subscriber-only track, the 6th for the album. My Genesis, my Popol Vuh, my creation myth. An interlude at the album’s centre: planetarium visions, computer voice, jazzy drums and sonic painting. Music as sensory transmission. Link in bio.
#music #jazz #orchestral #poetry #indie
#music #jazz #orchestral #poetry #indie
October 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Solipsism. Bandcamp subscriber-only track, the 6th for the album. My Genesis, my Popol Vuh, my creation myth. An interlude at the album’s centre: planetarium visions, computer voice, jazzy drums and sonic painting. Music as sensory transmission. Link in bio.
#music #jazz #orchestral #poetry #indie
#music #jazz #orchestral #poetry #indie
Impulse Control. 2nd Bandcamp subscriber-only track this week, 7th for the album. Funky, simple. Drums like cardboard boxes under tea-towels. Weird beat-poem lyric. I follow my nose & own the bit. Odd things happen. Subscribe for more. Link in bio.
#music #newmusic #indie #funk #hiphop
#music #newmusic #indie #funk #hiphop
October 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Survival Exhaustion, new subscriber-only track on Bandcamp: flakebelly.bandcamp.com
5th track of this batch. Built on a loop, backwards piano, Rhodes, guitars, woodwinds, strings, and 12-string Danelectro. Vocals whispered partly for the demented sound, partly after Covid.
#music #indie #bandcamp
5th track of this batch. Built on a loop, backwards piano, Rhodes, guitars, woodwinds, strings, and 12-string Danelectro. Vocals whispered partly for the demented sound, partly after Covid.
#music #indie #bandcamp
October 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Survival Exhaustion, new subscriber-only track on Bandcamp: flakebelly.bandcamp.com
5th track of this batch. Built on a loop, backwards piano, Rhodes, guitars, woodwinds, strings, and 12-string Danelectro. Vocals whispered partly for the demented sound, partly after Covid.
#music #indie #bandcamp
5th track of this batch. Built on a loop, backwards piano, Rhodes, guitars, woodwinds, strings, and 12-string Danelectro. Vocals whispered partly for the demented sound, partly after Covid.
#music #indie #bandcamp
Hello world. When I’m not modelling typewriters or polishing a gingery, salt and pepper beard, I make musics. One feller said “lyrics straight out of the Unabomber’s diary.” Another called me “a genuine weirdo-auteur.” Have a listen: flakebelly.bandcamp.com
#music #folk #indie #bandcamp #ukmusic
#music #folk #indie #bandcamp #ukmusic
October 10, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Four albums + three EPs free if you want them. Or pay what you like. Entire discography £9.60. Includes The Boy In The Diving Bell, Apprentice Green, singles & EPs for the discerning listener.
flakebelly.bandcamp.com
#bandcampfriday #independentmusic #indiemusician #artrock #folk #indie #acoustic
flakebelly.bandcamp.com
#bandcampfriday #independentmusic #indiemusician #artrock #folk #indie #acoustic
October 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Four albums + three EPs free if you want them. Or pay what you like. Entire discography £9.60. Includes The Boy In The Diving Bell, Apprentice Green, singles & EPs for the discerning listener.
flakebelly.bandcamp.com
#bandcampfriday #independentmusic #indiemusician #artrock #folk #indie #acoustic
flakebelly.bandcamp.com
#bandcampfriday #independentmusic #indiemusician #artrock #folk #indie #acoustic
New subscriber-only track A Balloon Man from our ever-unspooling project. £20/year gets 57 songs: 4 new from this project, 4 unreleased singles, my new #album The Boy in the Diving Bell, 2 EPs & 3 albums. Subscribe: flakebelly.bandcamp.com/subscribe
#independentmusic #Bandcamp #newmusic #music
#independentmusic #Bandcamp #newmusic #music
September 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
New subscriber-only track A Balloon Man from our ever-unspooling project. £20/year gets 57 songs: 4 new from this project, 4 unreleased singles, my new #album The Boy in the Diving Bell, 2 EPs & 3 albums. Subscribe: flakebelly.bandcamp.com/subscribe
#independentmusic #Bandcamp #newmusic #music
#independentmusic #Bandcamp #newmusic #music
It’s Bandcamp Friday, a fine time to dive into new sounds. The Boy In The Diving Bell drifts between #indie, #acoustic and #psychedelic with an experimental edge. Today only: the full flakebelly discography is 60% off. flakebelly.bandcamp.com
#BandcampFriday #IndieMusic #IndependentArtist #NewMusic
#BandcampFriday #IndieMusic #IndependentArtist #NewMusic
September 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
It’s Bandcamp Friday, a fine time to dive into new sounds. The Boy In The Diving Bell drifts between #indie, #acoustic and #psychedelic with an experimental edge. Today only: the full flakebelly discography is 60% off. flakebelly.bandcamp.com
#BandcampFriday #IndieMusic #IndependentArtist #NewMusic
#BandcampFriday #IndieMusic #IndependentArtist #NewMusic
Here's my entire #album The Boy In The Diving Bell, totally free. From me to you. Gratis. Falas. Lìbaro. It has been sped up 512 times to almost the speed of light but that's a you problem. You're welcome. flakebelly.com/boy-in-the-d...
#acoustic #indiefolk #outsidermusic #indie #altfolk #folk
#acoustic #indiefolk #outsidermusic #indie #altfolk #folk
September 2, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Here's my entire #album The Boy In The Diving Bell, totally free. From me to you. Gratis. Falas. Lìbaro. It has been sped up 512 times to almost the speed of light but that's a you problem. You're welcome. flakebelly.com/boy-in-the-d...
#acoustic #indiefolk #outsidermusic #indie #altfolk #folk
#acoustic #indiefolk #outsidermusic #indie #altfolk #folk
“flakebelly is ultimately the sort of the artist we need more of - a genuine weirdo-auteur carving his own path purely for the love of the game.”
Lewis Wade, Is This Music?
The Boy In The Diving Bell - seventeen tracks of psych #alt-folk, warped tape & ghosts.
Links in bio.
#PsychFolk #acoustic
Lewis Wade, Is This Music?
The Boy In The Diving Bell - seventeen tracks of psych #alt-folk, warped tape & ghosts.
Links in bio.
#PsychFolk #acoustic
August 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
“flakebelly is ultimately the sort of the artist we need more of - a genuine weirdo-auteur carving his own path purely for the love of the game.”
Lewis Wade, Is This Music?
The Boy In The Diving Bell - seventeen tracks of psych #alt-folk, warped tape & ghosts.
Links in bio.
#PsychFolk #acoustic
Lewis Wade, Is This Music?
The Boy In The Diving Bell - seventeen tracks of psych #alt-folk, warped tape & ghosts.
Links in bio.
#PsychFolk #acoustic
My new album, The Boy In The Diving Bell, is best described as:
confessions of an English tape machine tweaker.
Seventeen uneven tracks of alt-folk and fractured psychedelia.
flakebelly.com/boy-in-the-d...
#PsychFolk #acoustic #folk #music #album #indiefolk #altfolk
confessions of an English tape machine tweaker.
Seventeen uneven tracks of alt-folk and fractured psychedelia.
flakebelly.com/boy-in-the-d...
#PsychFolk #acoustic #folk #music #album #indiefolk #altfolk
August 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
My new album, The Boy In The Diving Bell, is best described as:
confessions of an English tape machine tweaker.
Seventeen uneven tracks of alt-folk and fractured psychedelia.
flakebelly.com/boy-in-the-d...
#PsychFolk #acoustic #folk #music #album #indiefolk #altfolk
confessions of an English tape machine tweaker.
Seventeen uneven tracks of alt-folk and fractured psychedelia.
flakebelly.com/boy-in-the-d...
#PsychFolk #acoustic #folk #music #album #indiefolk #altfolk
Mucking about with feedback loops @flamingjangle.bsky.social Danelectro forced into being a bass, WEM Copicat patched through a Tascam 106, pushed into self-oscillation. I like to destroy sound through every wire and circuit I can, hiss and hum included.
#music #recording #analogue #studios
#music #recording #analogue #studios
August 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Mucking about with feedback loops @flamingjangle.bsky.social Danelectro forced into being a bass, WEM Copicat patched through a Tascam 106, pushed into self-oscillation. I like to destroy sound through every wire and circuit I can, hiss and hum included.
#music #recording #analogue #studios
#music #recording #analogue #studios
1. One week ago today, I released The Boy In The Diving Bell.
It took a year to make - but really it’s been decades in the making. A lifetime of threads stitched into sound, a long reckoning pulled into seventeen pieces of music.
#IndieFolk
It took a year to make - but really it’s been decades in the making. A lifetime of threads stitched into sound, a long reckoning pulled into seventeen pieces of music.
#IndieFolk
August 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
1. One week ago today, I released The Boy In The Diving Bell.
It took a year to make - but really it’s been decades in the making. A lifetime of threads stitched into sound, a long reckoning pulled into seventeen pieces of music.
#IndieFolk
It took a year to make - but really it’s been decades in the making. A lifetime of threads stitched into sound, a long reckoning pulled into seventeen pieces of music.
#IndieFolk
MY NEW ALBUM, THE BOY IN THE DIVING BELL, IS BEST DESCRIBED AS:
the chest rattle of a dying man.
Out now on Bandcamp, CD/vinyl via ElasticStage, and streaming only on SoundCloud. Links in bio.
#IndieFolk #PsychFolk #OutsiderMusic #acoustic #music #indie
the chest rattle of a dying man.
Out now on Bandcamp, CD/vinyl via ElasticStage, and streaming only on SoundCloud. Links in bio.
#IndieFolk #PsychFolk #OutsiderMusic #acoustic #music #indie
August 21, 2025 at 6:23 AM
MY NEW ALBUM, THE BOY IN THE DIVING BELL, IS BEST DESCRIBED AS:
the chest rattle of a dying man.
Out now on Bandcamp, CD/vinyl via ElasticStage, and streaming only on SoundCloud. Links in bio.
#IndieFolk #PsychFolk #OutsiderMusic #acoustic #music #indie
the chest rattle of a dying man.
Out now on Bandcamp, CD/vinyl via ElasticStage, and streaming only on SoundCloud. Links in bio.
#IndieFolk #PsychFolk #OutsiderMusic #acoustic #music #indie
Have you heard the news? My album The Boy In The Diving Bell is out. A psych alt-folk soup of fractured tape loops and jangled flamings - flawed, human, alive. Download on Bandcamp, order CD/vinyl on ElasticStage, or stream only on SoundCloud. Links in bio.
#IndieFolk #PsychFolk #IndependentMusic
#IndieFolk #PsychFolk #IndependentMusic
August 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Have you heard the news? My album The Boy In The Diving Bell is out. A psych alt-folk soup of fractured tape loops and jangled flamings - flawed, human, alive. Download on Bandcamp, order CD/vinyl on ElasticStage, or stream only on SoundCloud. Links in bio.
#IndieFolk #PsychFolk #IndependentMusic
#IndieFolk #PsychFolk #IndependentMusic
A right red herring of a thing. The portrait in the attic’s portrait in the attic.
flakebelly.com/boy-in-the-d...
#acoustic #LoFidelity #IndieFolk #PsychFolk #music
flakebelly.com/boy-in-the-d...
#acoustic #LoFidelity #IndieFolk #PsychFolk #music
August 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
A right red herring of a thing. The portrait in the attic’s portrait in the attic.
flakebelly.com/boy-in-the-d...
#acoustic #LoFidelity #IndieFolk #PsychFolk #music
flakebelly.com/boy-in-the-d...
#acoustic #LoFidelity #IndieFolk #PsychFolk #music
Thanks to everyone who’s already listened to The Boy In The Diving Bell. Your ears & your time mean everything.
If you haven’t yet, it’s waiting for you - CD and vinyl via ElasticStage, download on Bandcamp, or stream only on SoundCloud. Links in bio.
#acoustic #LoFidelity #IndieFolk #PsychFolk
If you haven’t yet, it’s waiting for you - CD and vinyl via ElasticStage, download on Bandcamp, or stream only on SoundCloud. Links in bio.
#acoustic #LoFidelity #IndieFolk #PsychFolk
August 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Thanks to everyone who’s already listened to The Boy In The Diving Bell. Your ears & your time mean everything.
If you haven’t yet, it’s waiting for you - CD and vinyl via ElasticStage, download on Bandcamp, or stream only on SoundCloud. Links in bio.
#acoustic #LoFidelity #IndieFolk #PsychFolk
If you haven’t yet, it’s waiting for you - CD and vinyl via ElasticStage, download on Bandcamp, or stream only on SoundCloud. Links in bio.
#acoustic #LoFidelity #IndieFolk #PsychFolk
Thanks to everyone who’s listened, downloaded, ordered, or shared The Boy In The Diving Bell. Deliberately uneven, defiantly human. No quantisation. No AI gloss. Mistakes stay in. First takes only. Creaks in the chair, breath between notes.
Links in bio.
#LoFidelity #IndieFolk #PsychFolk #acoustic
Links in bio.
#LoFidelity #IndieFolk #PsychFolk #acoustic
August 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Thanks to everyone who’s listened, downloaded, ordered, or shared The Boy In The Diving Bell. Deliberately uneven, defiantly human. No quantisation. No AI gloss. Mistakes stay in. First takes only. Creaks in the chair, breath between notes.
Links in bio.
#LoFidelity #IndieFolk #PsychFolk #acoustic
Links in bio.
#LoFidelity #IndieFolk #PsychFolk #acoustic
Recorded and mixed at Flaming Jangle Studios, The Boy In The Diving Bell runs through an Akai 4000D - one channel gone, mono. Hiss, delay, and glitches aren’t flaws - they’re the spine. Sometimes I played it for blurples. Link in bio.
#RecordingStudio #ReelToReel #LoFidelity #IndieFolk
#RecordingStudio #ReelToReel #LoFidelity #IndieFolk
August 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Recorded and mixed at Flaming Jangle Studios, The Boy In The Diving Bell runs through an Akai 4000D - one channel gone, mono. Hiss, delay, and glitches aren’t flaws - they’re the spine. Sometimes I played it for blurples. Link in bio.
#RecordingStudio #ReelToReel #LoFidelity #IndieFolk
#RecordingStudio #ReelToReel #LoFidelity #IndieFolk
The Boy In The Diving Bell, out today. 17 tracks of psych alt-folk, tape loops, and acoustic laments. Made with a 1960s reel-to-reel, first takes, mistakes left in. Warts, bed-hair, yesterday’s breath.
On CD, vinyl, and download. Links in bio.
#AltFolk #IndieFolk #PsychFolk #ExperimentalFolk
On CD, vinyl, and download. Links in bio.
#AltFolk #IndieFolk #PsychFolk #ExperimentalFolk
August 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The Boy In The Diving Bell, out today. 17 tracks of psych alt-folk, tape loops, and acoustic laments. Made with a 1960s reel-to-reel, first takes, mistakes left in. Warts, bed-hair, yesterday’s breath.
On CD, vinyl, and download. Links in bio.
#AltFolk #IndieFolk #PsychFolk #ExperimentalFolk
On CD, vinyl, and download. Links in bio.
#AltFolk #IndieFolk #PsychFolk #ExperimentalFolk
New #Bandcamp subscriber track: The Gunpowder Cinnamon Plot - plus an exclusive YouTube video (watch a man plug cables into mixers at high speed).
£20/year gets 3 new tracks, 4 older singles, my back catalogue, and 2 exclusive videos.
flakebelly.bandcamp.com/subscribe
#indiemusic #newmusic
£20/year gets 3 new tracks, 4 older singles, my back catalogue, and 2 exclusive videos.
flakebelly.bandcamp.com/subscribe
#indiemusic #newmusic
August 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
New #Bandcamp subscriber track: The Gunpowder Cinnamon Plot - plus an exclusive YouTube video (watch a man plug cables into mixers at high speed).
£20/year gets 3 new tracks, 4 older singles, my back catalogue, and 2 exclusive videos.
flakebelly.bandcamp.com/subscribe
#indiemusic #newmusic
£20/year gets 3 new tracks, 4 older singles, my back catalogue, and 2 exclusive videos.
flakebelly.bandcamp.com/subscribe
#indiemusic #newmusic
The 17th & final song on my new #album is What In The World You Gonna Do Now?
A raggedy, fingerpicked, folksy tune about words and stuff, recorded live in the studio
The Boy In The Diving Bell is out 15 Aug on #Bandcamp, #CD & #Vinyl
flakebelly.com/boy-in-the-d...
#music #acoustic #folk
A raggedy, fingerpicked, folksy tune about words and stuff, recorded live in the studio
The Boy In The Diving Bell is out 15 Aug on #Bandcamp, #CD & #Vinyl
flakebelly.com/boy-in-the-d...
#music #acoustic #folk
August 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Track 15 from my new album is You Me Holiday - tape loops, stitched back together on a computer for no reason but it sounds like a patchwork quilt. which is nice.
The Boy In The Diving Bell is out 15 Aug on Bandcamp, CD & Vinyl. No streaming.
Links in bio.
#music #bandcamp #folk #independentartist
The Boy In The Diving Bell is out 15 Aug on Bandcamp, CD & Vinyl. No streaming.
Links in bio.
#music #bandcamp #folk #independentartist
August 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Track 15 from my new album is You Me Holiday - tape loops, stitched back together on a computer for no reason but it sounds like a patchwork quilt. which is nice.
The Boy In The Diving Bell is out 15 Aug on Bandcamp, CD & Vinyl. No streaming.
Links in bio.
#music #bandcamp #folk #independentartist
The Boy In The Diving Bell is out 15 Aug on Bandcamp, CD & Vinyl. No streaming.
Links in bio.
#music #bandcamp #folk #independentartist
Track 14 on my new album is 'It's Your Birthday' - psych-y indie rock with electric guitar, organ, reel-to-reel slap-back and tape glitches.
'The Boy In The Diving Bell' 15 Aug
CD & Vinyl.
elasticstage.com/flakebelly/r...
Bandcamp
flakebelly.bandcamp.com
#music #folk #vinyl #bandcamp #ukmusic
'The Boy In The Diving Bell' 15 Aug
CD & Vinyl.
elasticstage.com/flakebelly/r...
Bandcamp
flakebelly.bandcamp.com
#music #folk #vinyl #bandcamp #ukmusic
August 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Track 14 on my new album is 'It's Your Birthday' - psych-y indie rock with electric guitar, organ, reel-to-reel slap-back and tape glitches.
'The Boy In The Diving Bell' 15 Aug
CD & Vinyl.
elasticstage.com/flakebelly/r...
Bandcamp
flakebelly.bandcamp.com
#music #folk #vinyl #bandcamp #ukmusic
'The Boy In The Diving Bell' 15 Aug
CD & Vinyl.
elasticstage.com/flakebelly/r...
Bandcamp
flakebelly.bandcamp.com
#music #folk #vinyl #bandcamp #ukmusic
Haven’t used a #guitar amp in months. Lately I’ve been patching random bits of gear together just to see what kind of nasty, overloaded sounds come out.
I like committing early and letting the recording shape the mix.
Here’s a rough one from today.
Also: buy my #album
#music #indie
I like committing early and letting the recording shape the mix.
Here’s a rough one from today.
Also: buy my #album
#music #indie
August 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The test #CD just landed - looking lovely.
The Boy in the Diving Bell is now up for pre-order on CD & #vinyl via #ElasticStage.
A salt-encrusted alt-folk time capsule of tape hiss, first takes, and bad dreams.
Out 15 August
elasticstage.com/flakebelly/r...
#acoustic #altfolk #psychfolk #music
The Boy in the Diving Bell is now up for pre-order on CD & #vinyl via #ElasticStage.
A salt-encrusted alt-folk time capsule of tape hiss, first takes, and bad dreams.
Out 15 August
elasticstage.com/flakebelly/r...
#acoustic #altfolk #psychfolk #music
August 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The test #CD just landed - looking lovely.
The Boy in the Diving Bell is now up for pre-order on CD & #vinyl via #ElasticStage.
A salt-encrusted alt-folk time capsule of tape hiss, first takes, and bad dreams.
Out 15 August
elasticstage.com/flakebelly/r...
#acoustic #altfolk #psychfolk #music
The Boy in the Diving Bell is now up for pre-order on CD & #vinyl via #ElasticStage.
A salt-encrusted alt-folk time capsule of tape hiss, first takes, and bad dreams.
Out 15 August
elasticstage.com/flakebelly/r...
#acoustic #altfolk #psychfolk #music