Taken from “Dyrhólaey”, debut album by French singer-songwriter-composer Thomas Méreur, out October 18th via Preserved Sond. Combining the poignant simplicity of Erik Satie-esque piano and ethereal Sigur Rós-style vocals, Thomas Méreur’s debut album “Dyrhólaey” brings his memories of the landscapes he saw on a recent trip to Iceland back to life. There are two themes…
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[streaming] Sprinters – Ending
Manchester’s Sprinters have announced they will release their second album Struck Gold on 15th November via Madrid’s Meritorio Records. Initially a solo recording project of Neil Jarvis, the now four-piece released their self-titled debut on Manchester’s Icecapades label (Slowcoaches, Irma Vep and Cult Party) in 2017 as a true labour of love, recorded from songs…
[streaming] The Leaf Library – Hissing Waves
First track out from “The World Is A Bell”, the new album by The Leaf Library, out October 25th 2019 via WIAIWYA. The World Is A Bell is an ambitious and expansive update of The Leaf Library’s warm, hypnotic drone-pop encompassing gently pulsing electronics, chiming guitars, minimalist piano, acoustic and synthesised drones, noise, improv and…
[streaming] Foxes In Fiction – Rush To Spark
Taken from “Trillium Killer”, releases October 18th 2019 via Orchid Tapes. Foxes in Fiction is the musical project of Warren Hildebrand, a Canadian-American singer-songwriter based in Queens, New York. He released his first album “Swung from the Branches” in 2010 on Orchid Tapes. http://foxesinfiction.ca/
[streaming] Capitol – In Ceremony
Capitol is a five-piece indie project from Hamilton, Ontario. Debut album “Dream Noise” due out in October 2019, via Meritorio Records & Kingfisher Bluez Records. Capitol are influenced by an array of genres from 70s punk to modern indie rock, and “Dream Noise” captures the decades in 11 eclectic tracks. https://www.facebook.com/Capitol.infinitenoise/
[streaming] Lea Thomas and John Thayer – Lost As I’ve Ever Gone
Taken from “Blue of Distance”, the new album by Lea Thomas, featuring electronics and field recordings by John Thayer, out October 4th via Spirit House Records. Lea Thomas is a songwriter raised on Maui, Hawaii, and now based in Brooklyn, inspired by nature and tells stories that explore emotional landscapes as mirrored by the physical…
[streaming] Boduf Songs – Gimme Vortex
“Gimme Vortex” is the opening track of “Abyss Versions” by Boduf Songs, out October 4th 2019 via Orindal Records. Boduf Songs’ seventh album and first on Orindal Records marks the Ohio-via-Southampton home recording project’s most detailed production yet, voyaging into deeper recesses than ever before. Abyss Versions will see the light of day on October…
[streaming] Mr Magpie – Bulrushes
“Bulrushes” is the opening track of “The Magical World of Mr Magpie”, the first release by Mr Magpie. Mr Magpie is many things: a talking bird, a time-travelling mystic, and the commander-in-chief of a new Sheffield band, whose other members include local musicians Matt Alexander (Matt Alexander & the Belljar Band) and L.A. Foster (Curlicues)….
[streaming] Emma Russack & Lachlan Denton – Love For Myself
“Love For Myself” is the first track taken from “Take The Reigns” by Emma Russack & Lachlan Denton, out October 18th via Osborne Again and Bobo Integral. When Emma Russack and Lachlan Denton write songs together something inexplicable happens. ‘I don’t know how to explain it,’ says Lachlan. ‘The way we make music and the…
[streaming] Vetiver – To Who Knows Where
The first single off Vetiver’s forthcoming album ‘Up On High’, out November 1st on Mama Bird Recording Co. Vetiver is the long running stage and recording name of San Francisco’s Andy Cabic, who since 2003 has released over 6 albums and toured around the world supporting artists such as Wilco, The Shins, Fleet Foxes and…
[streaming] Sugar World – Sad In Heaven
“Sad in Heaven” is the first track released by Sugar World, a bedroom-pop/indie-pop project from San Diego. Free/name yourprice download at https://welcometosugarworld.bandcamp.com/album/sad-in-heaven https://www.facebook.com/hellosugarworld/
[streaming] Serafina Steer – Provides Common Ground
Taken from “The Mind is Trap”, out September 27th via Vitamin Concept Records. “A solitary glass bead game of an album,” is how English composer Serafina Steer describes her new solo record, The Mind is a Trap. Like the classic novel by Herman Hesse, Steer’s music offers a kind of crystalline grace, richly allusive and…
[streaming] Jim Perkins – Held
“Held” is the opening track and first single from “Pools”, releases October 3rd 2019 via Bigo & Twigetti. Composed, recorded and produced by Jim Perkins Clarinet and bass clarinet – Katy Ayling The track exploits simple instinctive harmonic lines and strong dynamic contrasts to bring out powerful clashes between the overtones in each of the…
[streaming] Itasca – Bess’s Dance
“Bess’s Dance” is the first single out of “Spring”, the new album by Itasca, out November 1st via Paradise of Bachelors. In the fall of 2017, a year after the release of her acclaimed 2016 album “Open to Chance“, Kayla Cohen, the songwriter and guitarist who records and performs as Itasca, left her home in…
[streaming] Rachael Dadd – Cut My Roots
Taken from Rachael Dadd‘s new album “FLUX” – which is out 08 November 2019 via Memphis Industries. “Starting out as a solitary trickling stream of songs and then growing in momentum through some life-affirming collaborations, “Flux feels” ready to fledge at this timely time. It’s been quite a journey, and not just the making of…
[streaming] Pony In The Pancake – Summer Has A Way
“Summer Has A Way” is the first single from “Summer Sun”, the new album by Albany, NY Indie-Surf Band Pony In The Pancake out digitally on September 20th on Five Kill Records. Pony In The Pancake, who have a wry sense of humor that permeates their jangly surf-pop (and their press copy, as you can…
[streaming] Tambour – Ursa Minor (Caroline’s Theme)
Taken from Tambour‘s upcoming EP ‘Constellations (ou comment arrêter le temps)’ out August 23rd via Moderna Records. Montreal pianist and composer Tambour also known as Simon P. Castonguay returns with his third EP Constellations (ou comment arrêter le temps) / (or how to stop time). This collection of five tableaux sees Castonguay reflecting on notions…
[streaming] Cozy Slippers – A Million Pieces
Warm jangly guitar pop songs by Cozy Slippers from Seattle/WA that are a bit reminiscent of the Paisley Underground, Go-Go’s or Kirsty MacColl. Their wonderful new 7″ “A Million Pieces” (KUS 020) will be released on August 9th via Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten. Cozy Slippers is a Seattle trio with dual-lead female vocals and a warm…
[streaming] Kele Goodwin – Handrail
“Handrail” is the first track available from “Moonbug”, available August 31st 2019 via Oscarson Records. Kele Goodwin has spent his life in three places: in Juneau, Alaska; on the Navajo Nation; and in the misty Pacific Northwest. He makes music that sings from bone marrow, from a life and landscape alternately charted and lost, crushed…
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