Single: The Race – Family Tree
Over a barbed mix of guitars and drums a la The Smashing Pumpkins, The Race pulls out the thorns in your side and tells you that you are fine, that you are enough, that you can just be here.
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Single: How Strange It Is – Slime
“Slime” by How Strange It Is transforms grunge energy with its wildly unusual and rhythmic intro into an indie rock gem that explores our shared human experience.
Single: Fesssi K. – southern trees
Fesssi K. delivers a songwriting masterpiece, connecting deeply with recurring human issues in just 49 unforgettable words.
Single: Rū Kai – Let Go
While the arrangements may give “cool” and even “rugged” in rock n’ roll nature, the lyrics give a sense of uncertainty.
Single: The First Eloi – Drawn Into These Headlights
We like The First Eloi quite a bit here on Start-Track, having featured them several
Single: Paraphernalia – Date Night
Finding a combination of intimacy and honesty is what I immediately felt when hitting play on “Date Night” by Paraphernalia.
Single: Perennial – Emma Peel
The band has one more short and sweet single from their upcoming album “Perennial”; it’s loud, daring, and urging you to perceive them.
Single: Something To Do – Hocus Pocus Brain
While the song title and music feel magical, the lyrics are about seeing through someone’s magic and not getting disillusioned and disenchanted.
Single: SLEEP CLUB – Weight of Ease
Grimy guitars and breathy voice really shouldn’t work this well together but that pull between grit and quiet ends up being the best part of “Weight of Ease.”
Single: George Dillon – Beautiful
It opens with just a few seconds of percussion, like it’s clearing its throat, and then it settles into this warm, dreamy little world and doesn’t let go.
Single: A Mess – Save Some Happiness
With no preamble, Save Some Happiness by A Mess bursts out into its hook at the start and fizzles out in the same way at the end. The song also begins and ends with the same command: save some happiness for yourself. It is almost like this message, over a patter of chimes from the buoyant guitars and a steady backing from the percussion, acts as a sudden disruption in your day to remind you to be kinder to yourself then scurries off.
Single: Murphy’s Medicine – Feathers
“Feathers” captures falling in love early on, when everything still feels new and a little unreal; that feeling comes through clearly in the bright and dreamy sound.
Single: Lana Leone – Starshine
Lana Leone’s new song “Starshine” doesn’t try to hide its edges, and that’s what makes it
Single: secret sibling – abducted (by aliens)
Strange chords and spacey sounds wrap around a voice that feels like it’s right next to you. A weird and beautiful little trip of a song.
Single: Sky Is Alright – Summer In Galt
The first new single in five years from the transatlantic shoegaze group marks the persistence of grief, how it compounds, and how it fixes itself in real-life locations.
Single: The Swell – Heathlands
The Swell creates a deeply atmospheric and relatable dream pop experience with ‘Heathlands’, wrapping introspection in warm, hazy guitars.
Single: Wolfschmidt – Svalbard
Change is scary, even when you know it’s coming. On “Svalbard”, Wolfschmidt bottles that shaky in between feelings with drums that won’t let up, guitars that sound like they’re falling apart on purpose, and a voice trying to cut through the noise.
Single: Greg Gobel – Balcony
Less than a minute long, this charming, lo-fi, alt-folky ditty manages to conjure an awful lot from very little.
Single: Moonheart – Take a Trip
Like gazing at an old photograph, finding stories in every crease and faded detail, “take a trip” really does take you on a journey – a journey to somewhere beautiful.