flakebelly
From the windswept landscapes of the Outer Hebrides, flakebelly creates music that moves between psychedelic indie rock, folk-jazz, and imagined soundworlds. Each project explores new approaches, allowing sound, tone, and method to develop freely.
Releases include The Orkney Tapes (2022), The Christmas Morning Outcome (2023), EPs: Behaviours (2022) and Lo Fidelity (2024), the kaleidoscopic album Apprentice Green (2024), and the 17-track psych alt-folk record The Boy In The Diving Bell. His track In Parks Of Tall Trees featured on Tom Robinson’s BBC 6 Music Introducing Mixtape.
Working alone, flakebelly records with analogue gear that is often broken, dusty, and unstable, using glitches, wear, and imperfection as deliberate musical material. A new project, due mid 2026, pushes further into abstraction, building tracks from rhythm outward using tape machines and degraded sound.
All music is written, recorded, and produced at Flaming Jangle Studios.
All socials: @flakebelly
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The Boy In The Diving Bell is out now.
17 tracks of psych alt-folk, fractured tape loops, acoustic laments, and splintered dreamscapes. Made with a 1960s reel-to-reel, first takes preferred, mistakes left in, no quantised perfection, no AI interference. A fight back for humanity - warts, bed-hair, yesterday’s breath.
It sounds like:
• A water-logged love letter, undelivered in a river-dragged corpse’s pocket
• A jungle soldier left behind years after all the bullets are spent
• The newspaper you find behind your wallpaper
• A deep-creased wallet polaroid
Written, recorded, and mixed at Flaming Jangle Studios: flakebelly.com/flaming-jangle-studios
Mastered by Grim17 at Drunk Old Lady Studios: www.instagram.com/drunkoldladystudios/
This album is not on Spotify, Apple Music, or any other major streaming service. If you must stream, the only place is SoundCloud. Otherwise, it’s available on CD, vinyl, and digital download.
Listen / buy here:
Digital: flakebelly.bandcamp.com/album/the-boy-in-the-divin…
CD & Vinyl: elasticstage.com/flakebelly/releases/the-boy-in-th…
Stream (SoundCloud only): on.soundcloud.com/OL0oUGE9ta1CqR6W48
Full details: flakebelly.com/boy-in-the-diving-bell
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Bandcamp Friday is here — for the next 24 hours, my entire discography is 50% off. It’s a good moment to pick up anything you missed.
You can also pre-order the new single, At The Prow Of The Lifeboat. It’s a quiet and strange one, about absence and devotion.
All at: flakebelly.bandcamp.com/
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We here at flakebelly inc would be most grateful if you found the time to pre-save our next single Dandelion. Out 27.06.23. Clickers of links and followers of the hyper are encouraged to visit the URL below. Cheers and good day to yous all.
Pre-Save: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/flakebelly/dandelion
2 years ago | [YT] | 2
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Have you heard my latest single, TimeBomb? And if not, why on earth not? Shame on you. songwhip.com/flakebelly/timebomb
3 years ago | [YT] | 1
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It's release day!! Stream 'Ordinary Treasure Chest' wherever streamers do.
Or here:
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Enjoy!
4 years ago | [YT] | 2
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'Ello, you lovely people.
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