It’s Friday, time to get the weekend started. You’ll need some good tunes to get through the next few days, which is obviously why you came to Reverb Raccoon: to find the best new music from independent musicians. Today’s feature comes to us from London, a nice place to enjoy a steak and kidney pie washed down with a pint of room temperature ale. It’s also a nice place to discover new music like “Jewels of the City” by River Fury.

“Jewels of the City” has an interesting 80’s-pop-meets-indie-rock feel. The echoing vocal harmonies – with plenty of overdubs – give the track a sheen over the grittier guitar and rhythm track. It’s an adventurous, compact glow of energy coming in at less than three minutes and ending with a jazzy piano.

“Jewels of the City” is the first single from River Fury’s debut album, Five Year Plan, due to arrive in April. River Fury is Patric Nutton (vox/guitars), Dan Howe (vox/guitars), Callum Hayes (bass/vox), and Andrew Gallop (drums). On their Bandcamp page, they describe themselves as “London based (but partly Melbourne grown),” and list as their influences bands as diverse as The Cure, Joy Division, and Queens of the Stone Age.

We “met” guitarist Dan Howe a couple of weeks ago (through emails) when we featured “Winter Seasons In My Mind” by Blue Collar Romantics. Dan is the principal songwriter and rhythm guitarist for Blue Collar Romantics, with Callum Hayes contributing backing vox in the studio. Dan and Callum were previously in Sweetheart of the Rodeo, a band with a more rootsish, Southern American sound than River Fury.

“Jewels of the City” is available for download on River Fury’s Bandcamp page, as well as on all major streaming sites including Soundcloud. Unlike many of the artists we write about, who rarely surface from the bedroom in their mom’s basement, River Fury makes themselves easy to find. You can visit their website, and you can follow them on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

 Bonus Track: “Heart of Mine,” by Sweetheart of the Rodeo, from 2013.