[streaming] Sea Glass – Splicing Shadows

“Splicing Shadows” is the first track out of “Shifts”, the debut album by Sea Glass, a new band featuring The Leaf Library’s Matt Ashton with Melinda Bronstein, due out on Friday 14 August via Where It’s At Is Where You Are. This is a set of ten spectral, melancholy songs that combine the minimalism of…

[streaming] The Cradle – One Too Many Times

The Cradle, the solo project of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Paco Cathcart (Big Neck Police, Eyes of Love, Shimmer), just announced his upcoming 21-track album, “Laughing In My Sleep”, will release August 21st, 2020 via NNA Tapes. Along with the announcement, Cathcart has shared the album’s lead single, “One Too Many Times,” featuring Lily Konigsberg (of…

[streaming] Lily Hayes – Still Young

Compelling, harmonic and original, Lily Hayes views her music as an on-going project – both writing and performing innately confessional lyric supported by delicate electric guitar. At 21, her songwriting explores both the landscape and internal emotion in a raw and poetic way. Delicate, yet precise, her songs are hard hitting, and will make you…

[streaming] Treg Hudson – You

Born in Austin, TX and raised in a tiny town in the Texas Hill Country, James Treg Hudson, found his love for music at an early age, through learning to play an old, beat-up piano that somehow found its way to his childhood home. Music has always played an integral part of his life and…

[streaming] Lightning Bug – Waterloo Sunset

New track by Lightning Bug. All proceeds are going to Futures Without Violence for the next week. “A lightning bug glows with the aid of a chemical called luciferin, derived from Latin for “light-bringer”. Lightning Bug began as three friends who made music together to bring each other light. The music we make continues to…

[streaming] Emily Keener – Nap

The vulnerability found in Emily Keener’s music traces back to a distinctly Midwest upbringing, characterized by the canopied forests that surrounded her home. It’s here Keener pensively grappled with the rigid qualities of rustbelt spiritualism. And where she experienced the literal and figurative isolation as a homeschooled country-dweller. In this rural area southwest of Cleveland…

[streaming] Liebeskid – In Your Eyes I Look Bigger

New single by Liebeskid, out 14.05.2020 on Unperceived Records. Crossing Indie, bedroom music, folk reminiscences, ambient soundscapes and contemporary art-pop the Russian singer & producer with her new release is able to create a magnetic and hypnotical melody in a song as delicate as it is capable of striking at first listen. Liebeskid is a…

[streaming] Owen – A New Muse

First track out of Owen‘s new album “The Avalanche”, recorded last winter up in Eau Claire, WI, with S. Carey and Zach Hanson. Out June 19th 2020 via Polyvinyl Records. Owen is the solo project of Chicago’s Mike Kinsella. As a departure from over a decade of work playing in a variety of bands –…

[streaming] Mt Went – The Owls Are Talking

Taken from “Fearful Void Series” preview compilation, featuring tracks from the album planned for release within “Built Upon A Fearful Void”, or “Fearful Void Series” for short, which is Lost Tribe Sound’s latest subscription series. The series will introduce 15 new full-length albums to the roster between June 2020 through June 2021. The line-up includes…

[streaming] A Lilac Decline – Sunset Song

New digital single from A Lilac Decline, ‘Sunset Song’ is a hazy, psychedelic song for the coming of summer and is the first fruit from the not-so-difficult second A Lilac Decline album, ‘Shelter From The Shadows’, which is currently being tweaked ahead of its release on Rusted Rail later on in 2020. A Lilac Decline,…

[streaming] Skullcrusher – Places/Plans

Skullcrusher is the musical project of LA based songwriter Helen Ballentine. Her self titled debut Ep will be released on June 26th 2020 via Secretly Canadian. Skullcrusher’ is, by all accounts, an exploration of the ways you become yourself when you aren’t looking – and how that feels once you start paying attention. It’s a…

[streaming] Trespassers William – Winterstorms

First new track in eight years by Trespassers William, 14 years after their latest album, “Having“. Anna-Lynne Williams and Matt Brown started performing together as Trespassers William in 1995 in Southern California. With a rotating cast of members, the band moved from Orange County to Seattle, but continued to make music that fell between shoegaze…

[streaming] Animal Hospital – Fatigue

Full streaming premiere of the first Animal Hospital album in 10+ years from Boston, MA experimental artist Kevin Micka, out April 24th 2020 via Whited Sepulchre Records. “Fatigue” is a chronicle and culmination of the past 10 years of Micka creating live music for large ensembles. In his return to the recorded format, Micka collapses…

[streaming] Commoners Choir – Singing Together Apart

“Singing Together Apart” is the final track of “Music Over Distance”, a compilation featuring 22 collaborative tracks recorded between two or more artists occupying different households during the COVID-19 lockdown period, to raise money for personal protective equipment for NHS workers: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/masks4nhsheroes. The results are fascinating and eclectic featuring unique collaborations across the miles. Great…

[streaming] Carwyn Ellis – Cherry Blossom Promenade

New song by Carwyn Ellis. All proceeds from the sale of the song are going to Tarian Cymru, an organisation sourcing personal protective equipment (PPE) for health and care workers in Wales. Carwyn Meurig Ellis (born 9 August 1973) is a Welsh singer-songwriter, composer, record producer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist. He is known as the frontman…

[streaming] Jenny O. – God Knows Why

Taken from “New Truth”, out June 19th via Mama Bird Recording Co. Jenny O. is a singer-songwriter working in Los Angeles, California. Over the past decade, Jenny O. has sung on recordings by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Father John Misty, Conor Oberst and Jonathan Wilson. She’s also toured with an even broader range of artists, including…

[streaming] Jetstream Pony – It’s Fine

“It’s Fine” is the first single from the debut LP by Jetstream Pony, with the album released on limited vinyl LP, CD and digital platforms on 22nd May 2020, a co-release by Shelflife Records and Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten. Jetstream Pony come from a love of post punk and indie-pop, and are named after a retired…