[streaming] Advance Base – Your Dog

“Your Dog” is taken from “Animal Companionship”, the new album by Advance Base, out September 21st on Run For Covers Records. Advance Base is the electronic solo project of Chicago, IL singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Using a two-handed arsenal of electric pianos, autoharps, Omnichords, loops, samples & drum machines,…

[streaming] Sucker Crush – Clementine

Taken from “Middle Mattress Chasm” E.P., just out on limited edition cassette via Ephemeral Stream Recordings. “Middle Mattress Chasm” is the debut studio offering from Sucker Crush, the solo songwriting project of Oakland-based musician/composer Marissa Deitz, formerly of The Vale. “Middle Mattress Chasm” is a concise reflection on loss and the deadweight of intimacy, as…

[streaming] Young Scum – Wasting Time

“Wasting Time” is the opening track of the self titled mini album by Young Scum, out on cassette via Citrus City Records and on vinyl via Pretty Olivia Records. Young Scum is a jangle pop fun from Richmond, VA, made by Chris Smith (vocals, guitar), Ben Medcalf (guitar) and Brian Dove (bass). Getting old is…

[streaming] Me For Queen – In This Skin

Me for Queen aka Mary Erskine is inspired by people and their stories. Growing up feral in rural Fife/Scotland in a big old house near the sea, she started writing songs when she was 13, around the same time that she started dressing herself. At this time music was her method of making her mark…

[streaming] Peel Dream Magazine – Shenandoah

Peel Dream Magazine is the nom de plume of New York City-based musician Joe Stevens. A nod to BBC Radio 1 legend John Peel, arbiter of all things underground, Peel Dream Magazine is highly evocative of a certain strain of independent music. Stevens harkens back to the early 1990s, when The Velvet Underground resurged as…

[streaming] epic45 – Outside

“Outside” is the lead single taken from the forthcoming album by epic45 entitled “Through Broken Summer”, out 28th September via Wayside & Woodland. Staffordshire’s purveyors of pastoral pop, epic45, return after a seven-year hiatus with new album ‘Through Broken Summer’, available from Friday 28th September. Much of what has always driven e pic45 still remains;…

[streaming] Adrianne Lenker – Cradle

“Cradle” is the first track out of “abysskiss”, the new album by Adrianne Lenker, releases October 5th 2018 via Saddle Creek. Adrianne Lenker has been writing songs since she was 10 years old. Her “back story” has been well documented in various interviews and profiles for Big Thief over the last 3 years. Despite, or…

[streaming] Manu Delago – Parasol Woods

Pioneer of the hang (handpan), captivating musician Manu Delago has announced the forthcoming release of a unique and awe-inspiring movie and accompanying album, Parasol Peak out September 7th on One Little Indian Records, in which Delago leads an ensemble of 7 musicians on a mountaineering expedition in The Alps. Along the way, the group perform…

[streaming] Lindsay Clark – Little Dove

“Little Dove” is the first track in anticipation of “Crystalline”, out via Oscarson Label, September 2018. Lindsay Clark finds balance between traditional folk, english folk, country, and her own version of experimental folk that seems to stem from her soul. Exquisite and pitch perfect, her music speaks of quiet revelation, with a background of her…

[streaming] Sea Pinks – Watermelon Sugar (Alcohol)

“Watermelon Sugar (Alcohol)” is the first track out of “Rockpool Blue”, releases September 28th, 2018. “Rockpool Blue” is the seventh album by Sea Pinks, Belfast’s finest purveyors of bittersweet guitar pop since 2010. At 28 minutes, it’s a short record about the pressure of taking on adult responsibilities when you still feel like a kid,…

[streaming] Todd Tobias & Chloe March – Lallulow

“Lallulow” is the first Single from “Amialluma”, a collaborative album by Todd Tobias and Chloe March out September 4th via Hidden Shoal Records. After a number of track collaborations on Todd Tobias’s album “Gila Man“, Chloe March and Todd Tobias have joined forces on their new full-length, “Amialluma”. Dwelling in a mysterious hinterland somewhere between Cocteau Twins’ seminal Victorialand…

[streaming] Sara Forslund – This Road

New song by Sara Forslund, first solo material after her gorgeous album “Water Became Wild” (2015). In August 2016 Forslund started the recordings of her second solo album “Summer is like a swallow” where she has reconnected with Nick Drakes producer and soundengineer John Wood who this time also has coproduced. Another new collaborator on…

[streaming] Lars Eriksson – I Love You Now

Lars Eriksson is an independent musician from Sweden, born 1980. He’s releasing his new Ep “Guds vän och allas fiende” on September 15th. “I Love You Now” is the first single out of it. The songs of the Ep were written on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea during a three-year period…

[streaming] Roy Montgomery – Landfall (feat. Liz Harris)

“Landfall” off Roy Montgomery’s album Suffuse, out August 22nd on Grapefruit Records. Despite praise and acclaim throughout his career, Roy Montgomery hates his singing. From his point of view, it’s done out of necessity, when he doesn’t have anyone else around to substitute. So it goes, when you live on the side of a mountain…

[streaming] Megan Airlie – Honey

Following the release of her debut single “After River”, Scottish singer-songwriter Megan Airlie makes a welcome return through her alluring follow up single “Honey”, available to stream and download now via Bloc Music Records. Showcasing her charming jazz/blues vocals, Honey accentuates Megan’s breathtaking natural talent as well as her ability to transmit intense, personal vignettes…

[streaming] Queen Of The Meadow – Withdrawn

Taken from “A Room To Store Happiness”, the new album by Queen Of The Meadow, out October 5th via Tiny Room Records. After the release of “Aligned With Juniper” (2016), Helen Ferguson withdrew from the writing process for several months. At that point, there was nothing new to say, no new stories to tell. This…