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/
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flakebelly
@flakebelly.bsky.social
· Aug 15
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
Newspaper Stairs is the 5th track from The Boy In The Diving Bell. One of my favourites. Weird, analogue-leaning experimental funk with an outsider pop edge. Sounds like running down a flat 80s Amiga corridor with tape wobble and cheap synth bass.
#experimentalmusic #independentmusic #outsiderpop
#experimentalmusic #independentmusic #outsiderpop
January 13, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Newspaper Stairs is the 5th track from The Boy In The Diving Bell. One of my favourites. Weird, analogue-leaning experimental funk with an outsider pop edge. Sounds like running down a flat 80s Amiga corridor with tape wobble and cheap synth bass.
#experimentalmusic #independentmusic #outsiderpop
#experimentalmusic #independentmusic #outsiderpop
Just started it, great so far!
January 12, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Just started it, great so far!
Finishing off the last 2 songs for my next album. Out spring/summer. Scheming the next one. Compiling study material. I'm thinking long, long songs that flow into each other, no gaps, one continuous piece. The 3rd arc of a cycle, The Boy In The Diving Bell being the first. Stay tuned for part 2!
January 12, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Finishing off the last 2 songs for my next album. Out spring/summer. Scheming the next one. Compiling study material. I'm thinking long, long songs that flow into each other, no gaps, one continuous piece. The 3rd arc of a cycle, The Boy In The Diving Bell being the first. Stay tuned for part 2!
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If you go on @kickstarter.com you'll quickly see that there is a choice between funding our latest LP/book, and funding a new Thundercats role-playing game. I know where my money's going, Lion-O.
In all seriousness - its the last few days, so please share!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/daa...
In all seriousness - its the last few days, so please share!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/daa...
The Talking Castle: Gothic novel and Vinyl LP soundtrack
A very English children's story about death: DAAM present A.C. Fayler's novel and an accompanying electronic OST by Near Minerals.
www.kickstarter.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:31 PM
If you go on @kickstarter.com you'll quickly see that there is a choice between funding our latest LP/book, and funding a new Thundercats role-playing game. I know where my money's going, Lion-O.
In all seriousness - its the last few days, so please share!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/daa...
In all seriousness - its the last few days, so please share!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/daa...
Attachment Catastrophe, 8th track from the new album, out now for Bandcamp subscribers: flakebelly.bandcamp.com
Modal drones, backwards vocals, three bass guitars, dual lyrics, and a crunchy analogue mix. The sound of the end of your world.
#NewMusic #ExperimentalMusic #AmbientRock
Modal drones, backwards vocals, three bass guitars, dual lyrics, and a crunchy analogue mix. The sound of the end of your world.
#NewMusic #ExperimentalMusic #AmbientRock
January 6, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Attachment Catastrophe, 8th track from the new album, out now for Bandcamp subscribers: flakebelly.bandcamp.com
Modal drones, backwards vocals, three bass guitars, dual lyrics, and a crunchy analogue mix. The sound of the end of your world.
#NewMusic #ExperimentalMusic #AmbientRock
Modal drones, backwards vocals, three bass guitars, dual lyrics, and a crunchy analogue mix. The sound of the end of your world.
#NewMusic #ExperimentalMusic #AmbientRock
The 4th track from my album The Boy In The Diving Bell is All About Her.
An acoustic folk song with guitar and vocals double tracked live. It’s really hard to keep both performances in time. This is the closest I’ve got. The intro drifts into bluegrass somehow.
#folkmusic #singersongwriter
An acoustic folk song with guitar and vocals double tracked live. It’s really hard to keep both performances in time. This is the closest I’ve got. The intro drifts into bluegrass somehow.
#folkmusic #singersongwriter
January 5, 2026 at 10:11 AM
The 4th track from my album The Boy In The Diving Bell is All About Her.
An acoustic folk song with guitar and vocals double tracked live. It’s really hard to keep both performances in time. This is the closest I’ve got. The intro drifts into bluegrass somehow.
#folkmusic #singersongwriter
An acoustic folk song with guitar and vocals double tracked live. It’s really hard to keep both performances in time. This is the closest I’ve got. The intro drifts into bluegrass somehow.
#folkmusic #singersongwriter
The third track from The Boy In The Diving Bell is A Spy In The Ointment. It began as an #acoustic guitar sketch, then spread across a #keyboard #orchestra and finished by a #jazz drummer. The #drum solo still makes my toe curl up in my boot.
flakebelly.bandcamp.com/album/the-bo...
#music #indie
flakebelly.bandcamp.com/album/the-bo...
#music #indie
December 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The third track from The Boy In The Diving Bell is A Spy In The Ointment. It began as an #acoustic guitar sketch, then spread across a #keyboard #orchestra and finished by a #jazz drummer. The #drum solo still makes my toe curl up in my boot.
flakebelly.bandcamp.com/album/the-bo...
#music #indie
flakebelly.bandcamp.com/album/the-bo...
#music #indie
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Hear the teaser single from our forthcoming soundtrack by Near Minerals:
We are an astonishing 85% funded, so please consider backing to get us over the line: it's an incredible release!
difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/animal...
We are an astonishing 85% funded, so please consider backing to get us over the line: it's an incredible release!
difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/animal...
Animal / Mitzi (Kickstarter teaser), by Near Minerals
2 track album
difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Hear the teaser single from our forthcoming soundtrack by Near Minerals:
We are an astonishing 85% funded, so please consider backing to get us over the line: it's an incredible release!
difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/animal...
We are an astonishing 85% funded, so please consider backing to get us over the line: it's an incredible release!
difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/animal...
I think I might start documenting my incredible weight gain journey.
December 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I think I might start documenting my incredible weight gain journey.
It’s almost Christmas. Had enough already? Me too.
Come listen to my alt-rock / punk anti-Christmas single. Let’s Bah that Humbug together.
song.link/flakebelly-M...
#newmusic #alternativerock #punkrock
Come listen to my alt-rock / punk anti-Christmas single. Let’s Bah that Humbug together.
song.link/flakebelly-M...
#newmusic #alternativerock #punkrock
December 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
It’s almost Christmas. Had enough already? Me too.
Come listen to my alt-rock / punk anti-Christmas single. Let’s Bah that Humbug together.
song.link/flakebelly-M...
#newmusic #alternativerock #punkrock
Come listen to my alt-rock / punk anti-Christmas single. Let’s Bah that Humbug together.
song.link/flakebelly-M...
#newmusic #alternativerock #punkrock
I do sometimes! Sometimes cassette, sometimes reel to reel. Often I'll bounce sounds through tape and edit on the pc. Whatever it takes!
December 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I do sometimes! Sometimes cassette, sometimes reel to reel. Often I'll bounce sounds through tape and edit on the pc. Whatever it takes!
The 2nd song from my album The Boy In The Diving Bell is At The Prow of The Lifeboat. Acoustic guitar, strings, words, music, stuff. A lifetime of social missteps and unseen struggles. I suppose you could call it alt-folk. Or something.
#newmusic #singersongwriter #folk #independentmusic
#newmusic #singersongwriter #folk #independentmusic
December 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The 2nd song from my album The Boy In The Diving Bell is At The Prow of The Lifeboat. Acoustic guitar, strings, words, music, stuff. A lifetime of social missteps and unseen struggles. I suppose you could call it alt-folk. Or something.
#newmusic #singersongwriter #folk #independentmusic
#newmusic #singersongwriter #folk #independentmusic
Has anyone seen my hat?
December 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Has anyone seen my hat?
Name your price!
UK's @flakebelly.bsky.social is angry about Christmas but still calls his new single "Merry Christmas", so maybe he isn't? No, he is.
Name Your Price at @bandcamp.com!
Name Your Price at @bandcamp.com!
Merry Christmas, by flakebelly
track by flakebelly
flakebelly.bandcamp.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Name your price!
Humbug! And thanks too. 🙏
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Humbug! And thanks too. 🙏
Can I interest anyone in a large box of meat?
December 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Can I interest anyone in a large box of meat?
It's WAAYY too early to be alive. This is all.
December 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
It's WAAYY too early to be alive. This is all.
Now that's my kind of kooky!
December 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Now that's my kind of kooky!
It's impossible to stay in tune!
December 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
It's impossible to stay in tune!
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Big thanks to @untidyradio.com @untidymusic.com for giving this a spin this morning and for spotlighting the lyrics of this and other songs on a great list.
December 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Big thanks to @untidyradio.com @untidymusic.com for giving this a spin this morning and for spotlighting the lyrics of this and other songs on a great list.
It sounds cool but it's really hard where you've held a note with a little drop in pitch at the end of a line.
December 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It sounds cool but it's really hard where you've held a note with a little drop in pitch at the end of a line.
Sometimes my arms bend back
December 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Sometimes my arms bend back
Today's mission: sing my vocals, flip them backwards, learn and sing the backwards vocals, flip those forwards again. Delete original vocals. Why? Why not. Gotta do something with your life.
#music #vocals #singer #musicproduction
#music #vocals #singer #musicproduction
December 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Today's mission: sing my vocals, flip them backwards, learn and sing the backwards vocals, flip those forwards again. Delete original vocals. Why? Why not. Gotta do something with your life.
#music #vocals #singer #musicproduction
#music #vocals #singer #musicproduction
Rotten, from my recent album The Boy In The Diving Bell. Backwards guitar, doom laden piano as a bass and double tracked acoustics. My ancient Akai tape machine added warbles, blurples, wownesss and indeed, flutterering.
flakebelly.bandcamp.com/album/the-bo...
#psychfolk #acoustic #altfolk #music
flakebelly.bandcamp.com/album/the-bo...
#psychfolk #acoustic #altfolk #music
December 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Rotten, from my recent album The Boy In The Diving Bell. Backwards guitar, doom laden piano as a bass and double tracked acoustics. My ancient Akai tape machine added warbles, blurples, wownesss and indeed, flutterering.
flakebelly.bandcamp.com/album/the-bo...
#psychfolk #acoustic #altfolk #music
flakebelly.bandcamp.com/album/the-bo...
#psychfolk #acoustic #altfolk #music