“… an expressive and emotive track that dances between intimate quietude and more expansive, romantic and stormy spaces – as if both performer and listener has stepped from hearth to heath in swift and dramatic, dream-like shifts…”
‘Melancholy’ delivers the listener to a world of wan-faced, sun-shy boys in national health spectacles singing sad songs to even sadder souls sat in their bed sits.
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.
An eloquent exercise in indie pop songcraft, which reaches confidently into the light with the German daydreamers’ typical precision and poise.
These songs take hold in secret, stealth-boldened waves. There is a sadness to it all but also a sense of quiet hope – the warm, trembling arrival of more ambient atmospherics opening up like a freshly risen sun on a soft and secret summer’s morning.
Window Dressing by Day Collector This is a driving, pop-precise piece of laid-back, sun-drenched slacker
There’s something inescapably autumnal about this foggy haze of a song – one that’s cloaked
The latest single from Toronto-based artist Aidan Belo, recording under the His His moniker, is
Wait until tomorrow by Twirlies Norwegian trio Twirlies’ new single Wait Until Tomorrow is a
Tascam C-sides Remastered by bondo L.A.’s Bondo have crafted a soporific, fug-filled floatation tank of
Troubadour by Tiberius The third single from their upcoming full-length, Moab is a glorious swagger
Apples & Honey by Vincent Yelle Apples & Honey, the first single by Montreal songwriter
Bots by Pickle Darling Although Pickle Darling’s Lukas Mayo expressed a post-Laundromat desire to escape
august loops by slipaway These six sketches of cyclical sound are quietly mesmerising – a
Seven by Hayes Noble There’s something achingly nostalgic about the fizzing thrum of this lo-fi,
Drew Stroik tragically left the world three years ago, and it is therefore a bittersweet
A mysterious entity, deliberately avoiding the soul-sucking trappings of social media, PAV have a clear
At War (With Everything) by Seadog Brighton’s Seadog return with this pulsing piece of dynamic
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A Sudden Loss of Speed by Matt Graves This has a dark, dreamlike and gothic
