Single: The BV’s – melancholy
‘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.
M.A Welsh
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.
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.
Album: desksnail – Lights Leak
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.
Single: Day Collector – Window Dressing
Window Dressing by Day Collector This is a driving, pop-precise piece of laid-back, sun-drenched slacker
Single: soapberry – Baptist church
There’s something inescapably autumnal about this foggy haze of a song – one that’s cloaked
Single: His His – Hardcore Band
The latest single from Toronto-based artist Aidan Belo, recording under the His His moniker, is
Single: Twirlies – Wait until tomorrow
Wait until tomorrow by Twirlies Norwegian trio Twirlies’ new single Wait Until Tomorrow is a
Single: Bondo – Joint with Ego
Tascam C-sides Remastered by bondo L.A.’s Bondo have crafted a soporific, fug-filled floatation tank of
Single: Tiberius – Moab
Troubadour by Tiberius The third single from their upcoming full-length, Moab is a glorious swagger
Single: Vincent Yelle – Apples & Honey
Apples & Honey by Vincent Yelle Apples & Honey, the first single by Montreal songwriter
Album: Pickle Darling – Bots
Bots by Pickle Darling Although Pickle Darling’s Lukas Mayo expressed a post-Laundromat desire to escape
EP: slipaway – august loops
august loops by slipaway These six sketches of cyclical sound are quietly mesmerising – a
Single: Hayes Noble – Seven
Seven by Hayes Noble There’s something achingly nostalgic about the fizzing thrum of this lo-fi,
Single: Stroik – Desert Time
Drew Stroik tragically left the world three years ago, and it is therefore a bittersweet
Single: PAV – Despedida
A mysterious entity, deliberately avoiding the soul-sucking trappings of social media, PAV have a clear
Single: Seadog – At War (With Everything)
At War (With Everything) by Seadog Brighton’s Seadog return with this pulsing piece of dynamic
Nicolae Neacsu (1924 – 2002) – A Forgotten Giant of Song
The following short essay would not have been possible without the detailed and original journalism
EP: Matt Graves – A Sudden Loss of Speed
A Sudden Loss of Speed by Matt Graves This has a dark, dreamlike and gothic
Single: hamburger – Rip
Beat Back The Ghouls by hamburger This band of Bristolians sound like they’ve been teleported