[streaming] Lucy Langlas – Can’t Breathe

Single release from upcoming album, “Children of the Sun”, coming 2021. Singer-songwriter Lucy Langlas was born and raised in Montana, in a rural area called Echo canyon. She began writing music in high school and quickly began searching for ways to expand her experiences. Having moved about from places like Los Angeles, New Orleans, and…

[streaming] Sun Drift – So Close

Taken from the album “Lucky”, out November 13th via Bingo Records. Sheffield-based musician and producer Zac Barfoot, who releases music as Sun Drift, is releasing his second album ‘Lucky’ via Bingo Records. Spawned from songs written on a broken tape machine, ‘Lucky’ is an attempt by Barfoot to get away from the screen-staring, production-driven sound…

[streaming] Julie Byrne & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Love’s Refrain

Written by Julie Byrne and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Vocals performed by Julie Byrne Instrumentation performed by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma The original (wordless) version of the track is included in Jefre Cantu-Ledesma’s album “In Summer” (2016). Julie Byrne and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma have shared “Love’s Refrain,” a collaboration featuring lyrics and vocals from Byrne and music from Cantu-Ledesma, for Mexican Summer’s…

[streaming] Darci Phenix – Wishbone

Title track of the new album by Darci Phenix, out January 5th 2021. Portland, Oregon-based songwriter Darci Phenix bought her first bass guitar in her home town of Sacramento with the counsel of her mother, a lawyer turned musician, and Michael Roe, the leader of 80s rock group “The 77s.” A community of musicians and…

[streaming] Dex Wolfe – Highly Likely

Second single from “Lightness EP”, out October 23rd. Dex Wolfe is a Seward-based multi-instrumentalist that has been a mainstay of the Minneapolis music scene for years. In acts such as Rivers and Undlin & Wolfe, he embraced a lush, pastoral folk sound, but as he’s ready to release music under his own name, Wolfe experiments…

[streaming] Burd Ellen – Hela’r Dryw Bach

Taken from “Says The Never Beyond”, out November 27th 2020. Burd Ellen have announced their second studio album “Says The Never Beyond”, release date 27th November 2020. The record is a collection of carols and wintersong that occupy the liminal space between sacred and secular, connecting to the deep seasonal traditions of Britain and Ireland….

[streaming] Moonchy & Tobias – Sericum

Taken from “Moonchy & Tobias III”, out October 30th 2020 via Tiny Room Records. “Moonchy & Tobias III” is the third collaborative album of vocalist Pat Moonchy (Sothiac) and multi-instrumentalist/producer Todd Tobias (GBV, Robert Pollard). It has become an album shrouded in nighttime darkness, with eerie soundscapes and lyrics in Latin. On their new album…

[streaming] Jack Name – Sacred Place

“Sacred Place” is the second single from Jack Name’s forthcoming record “Magic Touch”, out November 20th 2020 via Mexican Summer. Of the introspective gem of a track, Jack says, “Whenever I feel like I’m lost, or things are out of control, I can always come back to music. Music brings me back to life.” Alongside…

[streaming] SENS DEP – Luckless Hunter

Australian shoegazer trio SENS DEP Shares new single “Luckless Hunter”. SENS DEP (Sensory Deprivation) is a band that creates textured noise and sonic ruminations that explore ideas of control, restraint and abandon in equal measure. Formed in 2009 by Andrew and Ben Yardley as a side project for Melbourne band Laura, the group’s long-awaited debut…

[streaming] Swansea Sound – Corporate Indie Band

First single by Swansea Sound, available 17 October 2020 as limited edition cassette via Lavender Sweep. Hue Williams and Amelia Fletcher are reunited in Swansea Sound, with a brand new set of songs and full-on indie attitude. The first single is a two-track cassette on Welsh indie label Lavender Sweep. In ‘Angry Girl’ and ‘Corporate…

[streaming] Gianna Lauren – Spark

Taken from “Vanity Metrics” EP, out November 13th 2020 via Forward Music Group. On her fourth release Lauren is at her art-rockiest, but that also may be in part thanks to the artists she was listening to as she weaved through the fog of Nova Scotia’s south shore to produce this EP: Some of indie-rock’s…

[streaming] Crake – Gef

Taken from the single “Enough Salt (For All Dogs) b​/​w Gef”, out now on 7″/digital via Saddle Creek. Crake are an alt-folk four piece from the city of Leeds in northern England who write melodic and (sometimes) hopeful songs about flora, fauna, anxiety and the tough stuff. Formed on the cusp of 2016/17 after a…

[streaming] Jennifer Castle – Justice

Taken from “Monarch Season”, out Oct. 16, 2020 (digital) and Nov. 20 (LP/CD) on Paradise of Bachelors / Idée Fixe. Jennifer Castle’s sixth full-length album, the moon-suffused Monarch Season—an album as delicate and diaphanous as its namesake butterfly—stands, in a literal sense, as her first proper “solo” album, performed alone in her coastal kitchen, windows…

[streaming] The Luxembourg Signal – 2:22

Taken from “The Long Now”, out October 23rd 2020 via Shelflife Records. Members of the transatlantic indie-pop collective the Luxembourg Signal are spread between Los Angeles, San Diego and London, but they’ve carved out a niche among fans of ’80s/’90s-era indie-pop. After debuting with a self-titled album in 2014 and following it with “Blue Field”…

[streaming] Ana Roxanne – Suite pour l’invisible

Taken from “Because of a Flower”, out November 13th 2020 via Kranky Records. The sublime songs comprising Los Angeles-based musician Ana Roxanne’s second record, Because Of A Flower, germinated gradually across five years, inspired by interwoven notions of gender identity, beauty, and cruelty. She describes her process as beginning with “a drone element and a…

[streaming] Christopher Tignor – Ode To Joy

In this 250th anniversary year of Beethoven’s birth, Christopher Tignor has created a completely original approach to the theme of “Ode to Joy.” Slowing the theme to a glacial crawl and resetting the tune amidst new harmonies, this vision of joy is one of yearning and nostalgia better suited for these troubled times. Tignor explains…