[streaming] Caroline No – Birds Fly Up

Taken from “No Language”, out October 6th via Students Of Decay. Recorded in early 2015 and originally released as a micro edition cassette on World News Records, “No Language” is the debut collection of songs by Melbourne’s Caroline No. The group’s unique, beguiling sound sits somewhere between archetypal Dunedin pop and languorous, textural improvisation. “No…

[streaming] Rushing Silver – Low Beats

Rushing Silver is a producer, composer and beat maker from Denton, Texas, currently living in Paris, France. Mixing together, home recordings, field recordings, a few other sounds along with her own vocals, she has drawn comparisons to Beth Gibbons, Tune Yards, and Arthur Russell. “Low Beats” features Viktor Brierre on saxophone. The track is just…

[streaming] Slow Meadow – The Tragedy Of The Commons

“The Tragedy Of The Commons / Semolina” is the new digital single by Slow Meadow. Slow Meadow is ambient compositions from multi-instrumentalist Matt Kidd. After working as a touring / session musician since the early 2000s, Matt took a serious interest in creating music focused less on performance and more on inner experience. Slow Meadow…

[streaming] Haco – Tidal

“Tidal” is the first track out of “Qoosui”, new album by Haco, out September 1st via Someone Good Records. A composer, vocalist, electroacoustic performer, sound artist, and a founding member of After Dinner (1981-1991) and Hoahio. Haco has created numerous recordings both as producer and sound designer. As a musician, she has given performances throughout Japan…

[streaming] The Stargazer Lilies – Enter The Black Lodge

“Enter The Black Lodge” is the first track out of “Lost”, the new album by The Stargazer Lilies, out August 25th via Graveface Records & Curiosities. N/E PA based The Stargazer Lilies are the brainchild of husband and wife team, John Cep and Kim Field, pioneers of shoegaze’s new wave with former band Soundpool. The…

[streaming] Summon The Birds – London Tap Water

“London Tap Water” is the new single by Melbourne band Summon the Birds, taken from their forthcoming second album, “Blood Love”, recorded by Tim Johnston (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Dandy Warhols, The Drones). Summon the Birds began in 2007, when singer-songwriter Jonathan Shaw and bassist/producer Peter Woodlands kicked up an idea for…

[streaming] BATTS – Little White Lies

BATTS is the project of the Melbourne based singer-songwriter and space enthusiast Tanya Batt. Formerly focusing on Electronic Trip-Hop with producer Ficci, BATTS has branched off on her own and has made the transition back to her roots. Inspired mostly by folk artists, BATTS has reinvented her sound with her newest single ‘For Now’ which…

[streaming] Florist – What I Wanted To Hold

“What I Wanted To Hold” is the first track taken from Florist’s sophomore LP, “If Blue Could Be Happiness”, out on Double Double Whammy, September 29th 2017. “If Blue Could Be Happiness” is the second full length album from soft-synthesizer-folk band Florist. It is an observation of change; a full color memory album. It is…

[streaming] Colleen – Separating

French multi-instrumentalist Colleen (Cécile Schott) is fearless in her willingness to explore new sounds and new ways of creating music as a solo performer. On her new album A flame my love, a frequency, out October 20th, she introduces the most drastic change to her music since she began singing on her fourth album, setting…

[streaming] Grawlixes – A Fine Rain

“A Fine Rain” is taken from “Set Free”, the debut album by Grawlixes is a Wellington-by-way-of-Dunedin indie-folk band intent on inserting themselves into your brain with their intelligent, infectious songs about relationships and not being invited to parties. Continuing the great lineage of artists who bring sadness to their sprightly melodies, Grawlixes’s music deals in the melancholy…

[streaming] Siv Jakobsen – Not Alone

“Not Alone” is the third single from the upcoming debut album by Siv Jakobsen, “The Nordic Mellow”, out August 25th 2017. Siv’s music is beautifully mellow, much like diary-entries – filled with unfiltered thoughts and reflections. With references to Laura Marling and Ane Brun, listening to her music is like being a fly on the…

[streaming] Pavey Ark – Leaf By Leaf

Pavey Ark are an alternative acoustic band from Hull, the 2017 UK city of culture. Their sound is hard to define and hard to get out of your head. Fingerpicked guitar, atmospheric vocals and violins glide like migrating birds over melodic bass lines and complex percussion. A beautiful folk inspired sound that makes you wish…

[streaming] Matt Paxton – Baby Don’t Go

Taken from the “Hunter Street Station Blues” EP, out July 21, 2017. Matt Paxton recorded the EP in early Spring of 2017. He found himself often coming back to his hometown to record when he needed a break from the west coast. Recently he decided to move home, in Hamilton, where his label Other Songs…

[streaming] Colorama – Gall Pethau Gymryd Sbel

Never has there been a better time to unleash Colorama’s new album upon the world. No less than 10 years in the making, Welsh singer-songwriter, music producer and multi-instrumentalist Carwyn Ellis has honed the fittingly-titled “Some Things Just Take Time”, flavoured with the great US tradition of delivering strong narratives through timeless song-writing. “The title,…

[streaming] Powerdove – Raincoats

Taken from “War Shapes”, the 4th album by Annie Lewandowski as Powerdove. Annie Lewandowski is a composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist whose work has situated her between the worlds of improvisation and independent rock music. As an improviser on the piano and accordion, she has recorded with Fred Frith, the London Improvisers Orchestra, Caroline Kraabel, Tim…

[streaming] The Last Dinosaur – All My Faith

“All My Faith” is taken from the forthcoming album “The Nothing”, released on the 7th of July on Naim Records. The Last Dinosaur  are two friends (Jamie Cameron and Luke Hayden), from around Cambridge (England), which expands to a band when they play live. They play all the instruments themselves and they don’t use any…