Album: Careful Gaze – IT DOES NOT SLEEP 
Single: Bleak Streak – Forest Crater 
Album: Club 8 – Weeks of Golden Beats 
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.
Single: Are We Hunting – Lepers
“Lepers” moves like a memory you’re still holding onto, with breezy, nostalgic guitars and warm and hazy vocals.
Single: Day Friend – Weatherman
Smooth, psychedelic guitars and hazy vocals give “Weatherman” – a groove heavy track that leaves plenty of room to breathe – an out of this world feel.
Single: Trash Man – Ten Years
Trash Man explores what it’s like to watch someone change over the course of a decade, but packs it all into less than two-and-a-half minutes.
Single: Ira Ellison – Call Sign
The co-existence of accusation and regret as the lyrics change is masterful, and forms the emotional core of the song.
Album: Azure Rose – Blue Drops
“Blue Drops” is a cohesive hodge-podge of shoegaze, dream pop, and indie rock, with a dash of folk that checks every box in my brain for a promising record.
Single: Laura Ampersand – Middle
Laura Ampersand’s “Middle” is an experiential sonic tale and experiential journey.
Album: Stonefruit – Good News Only
The indie dreamgaze rock band Stonefruit’s debut album Good News Only is an equal parts whispered confession and brave declaration of love.
