JAD FAIR • DANIELSON • KRAMER - "IN A LONELY PLACE" • 2023

"'Nocturne,' as it emerges from a gentle chaos, channels straight into a resonant bed of living breathing emotion via the classic simplicity of reverbed piano chords, a pattering heartbeat rhythm and the layering on of spare, echoic, slightly eerie effects that manage edgy and soothing in equal measure. By the time Britta’s vocals arrive you’re so primed for full immersion that surrender is really you’re only option."
- StereoEmbers

Theo Bard • Forget • 2019

There's this darkness in the track so we shot performance takes with just one light in a pitch dark room. May rotoscoped from the footage in order to create handmade images of my face, which she could play with and distort.We wanted to capture the idea that the more you try to forget something, the more you think or talk about it, the longer it stays in your memory. So every time I open my mouth, the same head emerges unchanged. That's the memory coming back over and over again, like a ghost that won't stop haunting you. 

As the song progresses, the elements get more and more psychedelic, but still the head returns, a carbon copy of itself.

Babybird • Cave In • 2019

It's dark and beautiful. 

It's strange and melodic. 

It's not what you expected. 

"One of our most subversive pop artists" - The Sunday Times 

"A surreal, off-kilter wit and an endless supply of hooks" - Entertainment Weekly 

"Graciously elevates above the merely ordinary" - Pitchfork 

"So satisfying, a perfect match of style and content" - NME 

"Strong and tuneful" - Louder Than War 

"One of the most criminally underrated bands in the UK" - MusicOMH 

OKANDI - Blessed - 2018

I've been blessed with an angel watching over me I'm blessed 

Taught me to live

Taught me to learn and all the rest 

Who is there to wipe the woes right off my chest.

Nothing to hide. Right by my side 

Barlow - In a Stranger's Car (2018)

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*This re-released version of "In a Stranger's Car" features previously unreleased material from recording process as well as some sneak peaks of what is to come.

Fog Lake - dragonchaser - 2017

Loney Jon A black & white glitter snow globe.

TIGERCUB - Abstract Figures In The Dark - 2016

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 A huge behemoth of an album that weaves elements of alt rock, stoner, powerful melodies, heart achingly strong lyrics and look… 

The DarkSide of TBTCI - 2016

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dark, deep, dark, deep compilation… perfect soundtrack as winter bears down…

Abel - Trust No One - EP 2016

dark, minimalist female vocals haunt this short EP

Porches - Water - 2016

Aaron Maine's Porches follows the release of this year's acclaimed Pool with the Water EP – a new standalone insight into the music that formed the melodic skeleton of Pool, alongside a pair of previously unreleased songs in 'Black Dress' and 'Black Budweiser T-Shirt'. Recorded solo in his adopted home of New York City, the Water EP strips Maine's work down to its core, opening the curtain on his musical metamorphosis from previous releases Slow Dance In The Cosmos and those of his alias, Ronald Paris, into the Porches of today.

Low - The Exit Papers - 2016

Looking forward to this one…

At the turn of the 21st Century, sandwiched between two of their most iconic albums – Secret Name and Things We Lost In The Fire – Low released The Exit Papers as part of Temporary Residence Ltd.'s long-running CD subscription series, Travels In Constants. A sparse suite of six mostly instrumental pieces composed for a film that never existed, The Exit Papers still stands as Low's most haunting and experimental work.

Pat Moon - Don't Hide From The Light - 2016

dark electronic dance soundtrack… yeah… all that!

Altamina - Tomorrow Morning Will Be Tonight - 2016

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Spacey and atmospheric, Altamina plant their feet firmly in the ground and stretch their arms into the sky. Achieving a deep, rich sound with ambient, yet driving instrumentals and San Fermin-like vocals, Tomorrow Morning Will Be Tonight rides the genre line along with acts like The National and The Antlers.

pocketmouse - be ok - 2016

Devin Garvin This is some of the most melancholic acoustic stuff I've ever heard; beautiful, somber, perfect rainy day music for feelin'. 

Arrotzak - 2016

Dark alt-punk rock out of Spain… Pretty raw.

Augustine - The Devil in Me - 2016

Dark, intimate and minimalistic folk, with touches of darkwave and electro. Augustine is Mireille M.Fiset, a singer-songwriter from Montreal, Canada

classic muscle - SILVER COUNTRY - 2015

pretty good ruckus going on here… 

Daniel Markham & Claire Morales - Harmony in Hell - 2015

Daniel Markham & Claire Morales team up to bring you a gloomy groovy new album. It's getting chilly, the leaves are falling, stuff is dying, witches are hanging. Get your spook on, y'all.

the cult of the dead bird - 2015

Ambient instrumental with shoegaze overtones laced with darkness coming out of Brazil.

this in black - the first love made - 2015

light as air while still feeling heavy as coal… this collection of songs with inevitably affect you in many many different ways

description from band… slowcore, sadcore, sleepcore, shoegaze, lofi, ambient drip-pop