flakebelly

New Album - 2026

Out 15th May 2026

New Album

Built from drums outwards - each track's rhythm recorded before anything else was written. Warped pianos, guitars, loops, and fragments layered on top, pushed through dusty vintage gear, tape, and transistor until the sound collapsed into grit and decay. Vinyl fragments, ambient recordings, and sampled vocals folded into the fabric. The voice is deliberately de-centred - whispered, pitch-shifted, spoken, shouted, chanted, rapped - one element among many. Slow drone pieces sit alongside glitch-driven instability, shaped by texture and colour rather than convention. Experimental indie, psych-jazz, art-rock, tape collage, hip hop production. Deliberately irregular, defiantly human, almost lo-fi. It breathes, wobbles, distorts, and sometimes fails.

Details and pre-order coming soon.

Latest Release - 2025

The Boy In The Diving Bell

A raw voyage through psych alt-folk, fractured tape loops, and splintered acoustics. Shaped by hand and run through a 1960s reel-to-reel, where hiss and warped textures twist the songs into uneasy shapes. Lyrically, a reckoning with ghosts of the past and the weight of unfinished business - fragments of memory and surreal dispatches blurred into sound. Imperfections remain, first takes often final, capturing the frailty and persistence of a person making music in a room.

The first part of a sequence of three interconnected albums.

Bandcamp CD & Vinyl Streaming

About

From the windswept landscapes of the Outer Hebrides, flakebelly shapes songs that wander between psychedelic indie rock, folk-jazz, and the ever-changing soundscapes of imagination. His music evolves in style and texture with each project, guided by a self-contained ethos that allows sound, tone, and method to develop freely.

His track In Parks Of Tall Trees found its way to Tom Robinson's BBC 6 Music Introducing Mixtape. From first picking up a guitar in the late 90s and stumbling through formative songs in the early 2000s, flakebelly's path has been one of constant diversion and reinvention.

Early singles collections - The Orkney Tapes (2022) and The Christmas Morning Outcome (2023) - were restless, experimental documents of sound-searching, sketchbooks where ideas were tested, broken apart, and pieced together again in pursuit of a voice. Those experiments fed directly into the indie-folk EP Behaviours (2022), the rough-edged Lo Fidelity (2024), and the kaleidoscopic album Apprentice Green (2024).

True to his solitary instincts, flakebelly writes, records, and produces everything from his home studio in the Western Isles. The result is music that feels lived-in and handmade - always evolving, never fixed, and forever searching for new shapes in the sound.