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With Twenty-First Century Blues, The Foothills - band have taken another step in refining their pastoral impulses, drawi...
22/09/2023

With Twenty-First Century Blues, The Foothills - band have taken another step in refining their pastoral impulses, drawing upon hundreds of years of music in an effort to get at the heart of what made these sounds so mesmerizing in the first place.

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With Twenty-First Century Blues , The Foothills have taken another step in refining their pastoral impulses, drawing upon hundreds of years of music in an effort to get at the heart of what made these sounds so mesmerizing in the first place.

A microcosm of energetic reactions, emotional association, and thoracic anatomy, Euglossine’s Bug Planet is the Current ...
21/09/2023

A microcosm of energetic reactions, emotional association, and thoracic anatomy, Euglossine’s Bug Planet is the Current Timeline is a singular statement of intent from an artist fully vested in the world he has created.

Out now on Hausu Mountain

A microcosm of energetic reactions, emotional association, and thoracic anatomy, Bug Planet is the Current Timeline is a singular statement of intent from an artist fully vested in the world he has created.

Magic Birds’ latest collection, the rumbling and restless Twenty-Three, is both an homage to their rural inspirations an...
19/09/2023

Magic Birds’ latest collection, the rumbling and restless Twenty-Three, is both an homage to their rural inspirations and a treatise on how to successfully adapt those same influences into a unique and reverent statement on musical affections.

Magic Birds’ latest collection, the rumbling and restless Twenty-Three , is both an homage to their rural inspirations and a treatise on how to successfully adapt those same influences into a unique and reverent statement on musical affections.

With Life Anthems, Gentleforce bridges time and space, looking back to the unburdened emotions of his younger self and f...
15/09/2023

With Life Anthems, Gentleforce bridges time and space, looking back to the unburdened emotions of his younger self and finding freedom in letting go of the hardness of the present.

Out now on Oxtail Recordings

With Life Anthems , Gentleforce bridges time and space, looking back to the unburdened emotions of his younger self and finding freedom in letting go of the hardness of the present.

On “Run Away”, No Thank You John channels Daft Punk’s more minimalist sensibilities while simultaneously offering a more...
15/09/2023

On “Run Away”, No Thank You John channels Daft Punk’s more minimalist sensibilities while simultaneously offering a more concise take on Twin Shadow’s euphoric pop.

No Thank You John’s debut LP, Time I’ve Wasted, is due out sometime soon.

No Thank You John channels Daft Punk’s more minimalist sensibilities while simultaneously offering a more concise take on Twin Shadow’s euphoric pop.

On and Off from Shane Parish and Michael Potter is a psychedelic maelstrom of droning tones and fractured rhythms, an od...
13/09/2023

On and Off from Shane Parish and Michael Potter is a psychedelic maelstrom of droning tones and fractured rhythms, an oddly beautiful collage of emotional revelation and reciprocal imagination.

Out now on \\NULL|ZØNE//

On and Off is a psychedelic maelstrom of droning tones and fractured rhythms, an oddly beautiful collage of emotional revelation and reciprocal imagination.

Lane Lines’ Lucid Dreaming is a gorgeous and hazy collection of familiar synth-pop sounds turned inside out, reconstruct...
08/09/2023

Lane Lines’ Lucid Dreaming is a gorgeous and hazy collection of familiar synth-pop sounds turned inside out, reconstructed and reassembled while still maintaining a reverence for their nostalgic source material.

Out now on Den Tapes

Lucid Dreaming is a gorgeous and hazy collection of familiar synth-pop sounds turned inside out, reconstructed and reassembled while still maintaining a reverence for their nostalgic source material.

“Wasting Time (I Like It)” is the latest in a string of releases specifically designed to push Dylan Ireland beyond the ...
07/09/2023

“Wasting Time (I Like It)” is the latest in a string of releases specifically designed to push Dylan Ireland beyond the normative conventions of the hip-hop genre.

His new single is out now.

“Wasting Time (I Like It)” is the latest in a string of releases specifically designed to push Ireland beyond the normative conventions of the hip-hop genre.

On their self-titled debut album, Babytooth gather together bits and pieces of various decades, fashioning a familiar bu...
30/08/2023

On their self-titled debut album, Babytooth gather together bits and pieces of various decades, fashioning a familiar but compelling sound out of the resulting 1,000-piece puzzle.

Out now on Antiquated Future & Bud Tapes

On their self-titled debut LP, Babytooth gather together bits and pieces of various decades, fashioning a familiar but compelling sound out of the resulting 1,000-piece puzzle.

Blending synth-pop and surf rock with some well-placed funkified grooves, Astral Orchard capture the oscillating echoes ...
29/08/2023

Blending synth-pop and surf rock with some well-placed funkified grooves, Astral Orchard capture the oscillating echoes of sound running through their collective consciousness.

Their debut EP, Bliss, is out now via Suede Cave Records.

Blending synth-pop and surf rock with some well-placed funkified grooves, Astral Orchard capture the oscillating echoes of sound running through their collective consciousness.

Kissing the Drain by Painted Faces is a lost transmission from some distant planet, a fractured radio broadcast littered...
29/08/2023

Kissing the Drain by Painted Faces is a lost transmission from some distant planet, a fractured radio broadcast littered with moments of euphoric hiss, squiggly bloops, and eruptions of bleak dissonance.

Out now on Already Dead Tapes & Records

Kissing the Drain is a lost transmission from some distant planet, a fractured radio broadcast littered with moments of euphoric hiss, squiggly bloops, and eruptions of bleak dissonance.

The 10-track Escape Vessels from Brass Clouds is a relatively spacious affair, focused on softer rhythmic gravities rath...
29/08/2023

The 10-track Escape Vessels from Brass Clouds is a relatively spacious affair, focused on softer rhythmic gravities rather than denser melodic impulses – though there are a few exceptions.

Out now on Bathysphere Records

The 10-track Escape Vessels is a relatively spacious affair, focused on softer rhythmic gravities rather than denser melodic impulses – though there are a few exceptions.

“Silly Old Me” offers evidence that El Rocko isn’t merely treading water in his search for some sort of musical symmetry...
25/08/2023

“Silly Old Me” offers evidence that El Rocko isn’t merely treading water in his search for some sort of musical symmetry; he’s actively reshaping the soundtrack of his formative years.

Single out now via Yellow Racket Records

Silly Old Me” offers evidence that Waller isn’t merely treading water in his search for some sort of musical symmetry; he’s actively reshaping the soundtrack of his formative years.

Meadow Argus’ For the Birds is a cacophonous and immersive collection of sounds that cling to one another, sketches of c...
24/08/2023

Meadow Argus’ For the Birds is a cacophonous and immersive collection of sounds that cling to one another, sketches of chaotic musical associations and memories that have long since collapsed in the wake of our own chronology.

Out now via Tynan Tapes Temporal

For the Birds is a cacophonous and immersive collection of sounds that cling to one another, sketches of chaotic musical associations and memories that have long since collapsed in the wake of our own chronology.

The album functions as an analysis in how Darlene interacts with the world and with herself, giving us a glimpse into bo...
23/08/2023

The album functions as an analysis in how Darlene interacts with the world and with herself, giving us a glimpse into both the pain and the joy swirling around her at any given moment.

Out now via Municipal K7

DON’T LOVE YOU BUT WANT TO is an analysis in how she interacts with the world and with herself, giving us a glimpse into both the pain and the joy swirling around her at any given moment.

Scottish musician Joseph Blane returns with Nocturnal Woes, a trek into the melancholy night, a place where companionshi...
22/08/2023

Scottish musician Joseph Blane returns with Nocturnal Woes, a trek into the melancholy night, a place where companionship is brief in its proximity, and the world shakes off its physicality.

Out now on Submarine Broadcasting Company

Nocturnal Woes is a trek into the melancholy night, a place where companions are brief in their proximity, and the world loses its physicality.

Hear Lip Parade wander through acres of roiling aesthetics on new EP, The Lucky.It comes on the heels of two new LPs rel...
22/08/2023

Hear Lip Parade wander through acres of roiling aesthetics on new EP, The Lucky.

It comes on the heels of two new LPs released last month.

Under the guise of Lip Parade, musician Matt Green has always tried to break down the barriers between genres rather than acquiesce to their inherent limitations. Across various EPs and LPS, he has documented the intersection of pop, indie rock, folk, and other less defined aesthetics. By balancing

Eldi Bee echo and smolder through gauzy rock atmospheres on “Untethered”The single was released earlier this year.
21/08/2023

Eldi Bee echo and smolder through gauzy rock atmospheres on “Untethered”

The single was released earlier this year.

Built around the twinned talents of singer-songwriter Lauren Derryberry and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Labor, the music of Eldi Bee inhabits a world of curious grooves, miles-long melodies, and subtle rock reflections. Guitars thrum and shiver while percussive rumblings carry us along. Derryberry’...

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