Ghost Thoughts - Purple Period - 2017

jigsaw-records.com

This is the new project from Davina Shell (of Thee Ahs) and friends, and truth be told, it's really not too different from her previous band. And that's a good thing, because I LOVED Thee Ahs and their brand of pure and simple indiepop with the sweetest vocals - as much as I loved the Fat Tulips back when Sunday Records reigned supreme. Not to insinuate that these songs are all flowers and butterflies - in fact, they're rather darker in tone. 

gorgeous bully - best of - 2010 - 2016

a simple introduction to gorgeous bully - 14 songs from the last 6 years.

Gorgeous Bully — the Manchester-based bedroom pop project fronted by Thomas Crang — has the sort of Bandcamp back catalog that’s both intimidatingly extensive and satisfyingly rich, built up over six years of steady releases. SG

Spartan Jet-Plex - Amygdala Sky - 2017

Sean Rice Beautiful and timely - “The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their music and we have ours. Theirs, the wasted songs of a superstitious nightmare. And without their music and ideological miscarriages to compare our songs of freedom to, we'd not have any opposite to compare music with --- and like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we'd never know its speed, its power....” LOVE TRUMP HATE

Girlpool - NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert - 2015

girlpool

lotte kestner - february covers - 2017

lottekestner.com

"It’s like the Little Match Girl instead sold all of her matches and bought a guitar."

- {Sic} Magazine

Shakey Graves • The Man From Taured • 2017

shakeygraves.com

B-sides and rarities from the shakey graves archives 2007-2017

Mercy - Evil Baby + EP - 2016-2017

“Evil Baby” is a protest song against Donald Trump's presidency.

But it's not a dull political lecture. It's fun, and the video is proudly DIY.

Mercy brings her unique, mesmerizing voice to songs that showcase her eclectic musical tastes and styles, from urban chill, to indie folk, to jazz, to new wave retro disco. In everything she sings, she brings her own unique depth of feeling, as well as a sly sense of humor, which shine through her singing and draw you into her world. 

These songs are the result of a collaboration in the winter of 2015-2016 with Christopher Pellnat, who wrote some of the songs, did production and recording, and played instruments. He sings a duet with Mercy on "A Torrent." 

Coast Modern - Comb My Hair - 2017

LA duo Coast Modern, that's Coleman Trapp and Luke Atlas, understand this and they've written an entire song about it—premiering below. As they put it: "Sometimes when ur tripping out or life is tripping u up, comfort comes best with the touch of a kindred hand. Comb My Hair is a musical caress for weary universal travelers everywhere. We're all echoes of love." noisey

FINDLAY - Forgotten Pleasures - 2017

Findlay runs and jumps across genres. She revisits 90s grunge, flies up into the skies of shoegaze and creates lightning with hip-hop, before landing in a dream world of garage pop. She loves Motown artists, psychedelic rock, blues and well as hip-hop, she creates electronic soundscapes drawing from all styles to mix and create textures filled with aspiration. She composes alone, mostly on guitar, sometimes on piano, or turns her voice and words into drum rhythms to serve as a canvas, always on the lookout for strange sounds and new distortions, carried by her addictive choruses.

One Leg Mary - On The Quiet - 2017

One Leg Mary is a balance between sweet melodies and edgy instrumentals. Following the thread from the 80-90’s alternative/post-hardcore American scene, up to the latest indie-rock acts, the band finds its own voice.

We are OneLegMary, a four-piece band from Athens Greece and this is our latest release "On The Quiet". 

Although labeling our music has always been a difficult topic, 

one could say that we experiment with our favorites sounds from the 90s - 00s indie / punk / post-hardcore / math rock era.

BETS - project violent femmes - 2017

BETS was created to cover these Violent Femmes songs - she brings the angelic, the rawness, the simplicity of some really great songs.

Imp of Perverse - Not Getting What You Want, One Step at a Time - 2017

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Grouper - Water People - 2011

when everything seems absolutely crazy around you, put these sounds inside you…

modern folk III - 2017

themodernfolk.net

"slow rock'n'roll from an injury contributed shacks in oregon"

- SKOGSGOSPEL  skogsgospel.blogspot.it

"one can almost picture the artist coming home from a back-breaking 9/5 and crying in frustration"

-BOSTON HASSLE  www.bostonhassle.com

Porcelain Raft – Microclimate - 2017

http://www.porcelainraft.com

The new 10-track collection was recorded with Grizzly Bear and Beach House mixer/producer Chris Coady, who helped helm the 2015 Porcelain Raft EP, Half Awake.

01. The Earth Before Us

02. Big Sur

03. Rolling Over

04. Rising

05. Kookaburra

06. The Greatest View

07. Bring Me to the River

08. Accelerating Curve

09. The Poets Were Right

10. Zero Frame Per Second

H-Burns – Kid We Own The Summer - 2017

http://www.h-burns.com/kwots/

“Un spleen rock durable, parfait pour l’hiver avec de très beaux éclats” MAGIC RPM

“Un disque éclatant de maîtrise. La B.O du teen movie parfait”. NOISEY

“En bon orfèvre de la mélancolie, H-Burns rend une nouvelle copie impeccable, donnant encore un peu plus de légitimité à la reconnaissance dont il jouit désormais”  NEW NOISE

“on se laisse transporter par le vertige de cette fuite en avant, à l’américaine” LES INROCKS

“Un songwriting en béton armé” TECHNIKART

Foxygen - Hang - 2017

jagjaguwar.com

Foxygen is the Big Bang of two combusting minds. It's the splayed Galaxy of polar geniuses Sam France and Jonathan Rado. It's a handshake with a knife behind your back. A cosmic, Californian death-game of highway chicken. A sleepless night in a five star hotel. Truth or dare. Foxygen is the risk of pushing your best friend off the ledge just to see if they can fly. You listen to this album properly. You take in each moment. Each new melody that threads forward from the fingertips of one of this generation's finest piano men in Jonathan Rado. And you fall in line behind Sam France's sprawling and reckless lyric. Witness his mastery. Feel them struggle against the walls of their own creations. Follow them there. To the perimeter. To the exit sign. And let your eyes fog up with thoughts like 'For at least this moment I understand how cold blooded and beautiful I am.' Notice that the two young guys aren't there anymore. They're outside looking for another joint to haunt. They're already out of sight. 

Allison Crutchfield - Tourist in This Town - 2017

The debut full-length by Allison Crutchfield titled Tourist in This Town sonically pulls back the curtain on her life and places Crutchfield center stage, fully revealing her power, conviction, and grace. The Alabama native has immersed herself in music since her teenage years, forming notable bands such as P.S. Eliot and Bad Banana (both with her twin sister Katie of Waxahatchee). In 2012, she co-founded Swearin’—the band in which she would truly begin to formulate and understand her full potential as a songwriter.

Camera Obscura - 25th Elefant Anniversary Reissue - 2017

elefant.com

They are solid proof of what these Scots are capable of: delicious melodies, dreamy folk-pop, delicate and colorful arrangements, and a certain sixties effervescence.

As we said back then, it is impossible to get tired of listening to CAMERA OBSCURA; they have the magic necessary to combine the eternal and the immediate with the spontaneous and the elaborate. 

Talisco – Capitol Vision - 2017

http://www.taliscomusic.com

Love can make me weep

Something like that

Something so strong

Travel back

Travel back and forth in time

Jus before

Just before the picture fades