Album: NEWFARE – Walk With Me 
Single: Rolling Boxcar International – We Thought You Died 
Album: Be Decent – Now’s The Time 
Album: NEWFARE – Walk With Me
A comfortingly familiar rock n roll feast, this fantastic debut is also incredibly distinctive.
Single: Rolling Boxcar International – We Thought You Died
Rolling Boxcar International has a timeless sound on their new single, capturing it for us so we can both remember and continue.
Album: Be Decent – Now’s The Time
Be Decent – the four-piece ska band from Brooklyn, New York – is doing something
Single: IVES – Dahlia
Listening to ‘Dahlia’ by IVES feels like you’re floating through a dream that you can’t quite figure out the meaning of.
Single: Costumes – Kal Vilmer
Sounding straight out of an indie-punk film soundtrack, this song will be perfect for all the looking-out-the-window-while-it-rains-and-pretending-I’m-in-a-music-video moments.
Single: Lilac Attitude – Crocodile Tears
The self-doubt surrounding the authenticity of our own teenage emotions is packaged in this perfect sarcastically raging adolescence anthem by Lilac Attitude.
Single: GREEN EERIE – Stay With You
What I love about shoegaze is the ability artists have to use their voice as another layer of sound that rides the surface of the atmosphere they’ve curated, and GREEN EERIE does this masterfully.
EP: Multi Love – Letter
The ground on which these songs stand is not where you expect it to be. Listening to them is akin to imagining an extra step when climbing the stairs in the dark. It’s disarming but arresting in equal measure.
Album: Careful Gaze – IT DOES NOT SLEEP
A collection of love songs more about facing the feelings that haunt you, pumped through post-hardcore passion on the Minneapolis band’s third album.
Single: Bleak Streak – Forest Crater
Stockholm’s DIY darlings return with a new delightfully tape-worn single about terrible love and terrible loss.
Album: Club 8 – Weeks of Golden Beats
Club 8 are professionals at creating a chic atmosphere, with hints of something that resembles indie shoegaze with a “beachy” undertone.
Single: Pale – Fool
“Fool” feels like Pale leaning further into what they do best: Big, immersive soundscapes built for losing yourself in.
EP: The Grawks – Magnificent Little Deaths
The Grawks’ new EP features three tracks of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and despite its title, it’ll make you feel alive.
Single: Slow Teeth – Window
“Window” pulls you in quietly, almost like a trance, with soulful, psychedelic textures before gritty guitars breaks the spell wide open into chaos.
Single: Avery Friedman – You Move
Soft vocals, playful sound effects and cool guitars gives “You Move” a warm, memorable pull, especially once the guitars open up into full distortion at the chorus.
Single: Windowhead – You Will Never Be Erased
Dreamy vocals drift over heavy metal guitars until the song slowly cracks open into something loud, dark, and chaotic, “You Will Never Be Erased” is a song about being forgotten that’s impossible to forget.
Single: Some Sprouts – On The Line
An eloquent exercise in indie pop songcraft, which reaches confidently into the light with the German daydreamers’ typical precision and poise.
Single: Charlie Horn – Antlers
Charlie plays like he knows if he can get me to second twenty, I’m his. He ain’t wrong.
Album: New Age Healers – Blowing Smoke Through The Choir
New Age Healers’ latest album is a blend of the political and the personal, drenched in dense instrumental layers.
Single: Stoker – IN2U
Soft, acoustic strums and close, intimate vocals carry “IN2U”, a quiet, nostalgic song that feels like Stoker is singing right there in the room with you.
