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.
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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
Single: Fulton Lights – A Little Bit Low
In one of his newest tracks since 2018, Fulton Lights blends Peter Gabriel-esque composition and Jewish symbolism into a personal and gripping opus.
Single: Big Cove – Suneyes
The guitars get huge- the synth line expands- and the listeners experience euphoric energetic shoegaze.
Single: Astris Lapsus – Smútok ’97
Loud, fast, and completely unafraid of distortion, “Smútok ’97” throws you in immediately and never lets the chaos turn to noise.
Single: Kallsup – Min största vän
Iskall [ice-cold] is maybe something that the lyrics say, but the song feels warmer. I really enjoyed the softer, dreamy side of the shoegaze this band is bringing in the latest offering.
Single: EFE – Fine Line
Reviving the best of indie rock, “Fine Line” offers a dark and intimate atmosphere, cautious apologies, and tension through overdriven guitars.
Single: Ella Aslin – Prophecy
A wonderfully cathartic surprise. It’s a beautiful, elegant, mature sound that warms the heart and soothes the soul.
Single: Esquimaux – Bricks and Bones
The guitar melody is what pulls you in first, slow and sweet, the kind of
Single: Chaelle – Wired
song that can’t sit still, “Wired” slows down to admit something real, then picks up again before it has to sit with those feelings for too long.
Single: Dillon Jo – Vertigo
On Vertigo, Dillon Jo creates an atmosphere of dizzying stagnation with one needle-point view of clarity. Even though everything is spinning, one thing is clear enough and just as unmoving as you feel: you shouldn’t go through with it, with what can kill you. You should get through it, that thing that is killing you.
Single: blankette – clothes
It’s quite simple, really. It’s a classic case of a catch-22. You wear the clothes that present you in a certain way to others, but they don’t always get it right. So, you try to convince yourself that you don’t dress the way you do for others, so who is it all for? Well, blankette can tell you who it is not all for.
Single: W. Y. Huang – Afraid To Go Outside
If you follow his lead and close your eyes and close the blinds while listening- the subtle electric guitar and piano come in and transport you to this lonely empty room
Single: Albert Hertz – DWY
“DWY” treats the end of the world like a love song,with loud drums, hopeful guitars, and a vocal delay that makes it feel like it’s echoing out from the middle of the collapse itself.
Single: San Gabriel – All My Time
San Gabriel, a musical project of Texas’s James Bookert, delivers a song expressing a man’s adoration for someone he loves.
Single: sluggg – If I…
With a perfect, succinct title for what it wants to evoke, If I… by Sluggg is a drawling consideration of what you wish you had, starting with the obtainable and then abruptly entering the unattainable over a slow crawl of a bedroom pop production.
Single: Prettier Now – Beaming
The song immediately throws the listener into the deep end, the guitar and drums exploding out the gate.