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.
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Single: Bleak Streak – Forest Crater
Stockholm’s DIY darlings return with a new delightfully tape-worn single about terrible love and terrible loss.
Single: Pale – Fool
“Fool” feels like Pale leaning further into what they do best: Big, immersive soundscapes built for losing yourself in.
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.
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.
Single: Laura Ampersand – Middle
Laura Ampersand’s “Middle” is an experiential sonic tale and experiential journey.
Single: Sancho Panzer – Easy Answers
Sancho Panzer’s newest nifty little track doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but even still, it will pique the interest of even the grumpiest music fan.
Single: tiny toy cities – puppy teeth
The soft indie renaissance is upon us, as the SoCal group’s second single drops a wistful ballad about the insecurities of growing up after grief.
Single: Held – Standby
The first single from the upcoming EP Star Falling is bright, fiery, and battles between the heavy crunch of guitars and the serenity of the synths’ rays.
Single: Maria Savage – Face Down
For anyone who has felt that they can’t quite fit in with society, “Face Down” makes the realization either more encouraging or more depressing.
Single: The Swell – New Day
In their new single New Day, UK-based indie-rockers The Swell take influence from those who