Feb 9, 2021
Feb 6, 2021
Miss Grit • Impostor • 2021
mpostor addresses Miss Grit's life-long navigation through the racial impostor syndrome she experienced as a half-Korean girl "trying to fit into the white space" of the Michigan suburbs where she grew up.
Phantom Handshakes • No Better Plan • 2021
Phantom Handshakes is a lo-fi, dream pop collaboration between Federica Tassano and Matt Sklar.
Tyler Burkhart • Only Yesterday • 2021
Only yesterday
I was just a kid
Never thought I’d grow at all
but then one day I did
Who can help but turn
into someone else?
I don’t wanna spend my life
tryin to figure out myself
Who would wanna be
a celebrity?
people follow you around
but there’s nothing much to see
See your name in lights
in flourescent bulbs
I don't wanna get so high
that I’d be afraid to fall
Called you up to say
I had that dream again
can’t remember how it starts
but this is how it ends
Feb 5, 2021
Soft Kill • "Sky" • 2021
"Much like a dealer will place themselves on the fringes of social graces, Soft Kill operates outside of the industry laws with no care for opinions of genre cops. They run their business like rappers, tour with hardcore bands, and sound like a rock bottom Morrissey. If you are unfamiliar or curious about the seedy underbelly of post-punk, [Soft Kill] is your gateway drug." - Clint Gee, Outburn Online
Feb 4, 2021
Fleece • Do U Mind? (Leave the Light On) • 2021
“Do U Mind? (Leave the Light On)” is about temporary love. A commentary on Grindr and hookup culture, presented on a beautiful bed of reverb and indie pop goodness. Discussing, songwriter/vocalist Matt Rogers stated, "It's about meeting up with someone and pretending like you're in love for the night, even though you both know you're not. It's a little wink to all the people out there who feel the same way, and want to feel that sense of belonging for just a moment. I feel like hookup culture has made it really hard to be vulnerable with each-other. This song is my attempt at explaining the intersection of love, isolation, and frustration that apps like Grindr make me feel."
William The Conqueror • Move On • 2021
William The Conqueror first began teasing new music last year with the lead single "Wake Up," a gorgeous slice of laissez-faire college rock that sits somewhere in a disorganized melee between Pavement, Speedy Ortiz, and Built to Spill. The Times named it an Essential Track and called it an "agreeably low-slung piece of alt-rock." It was followed by "Jesus Died A Young Man," a song the band described as "far from being a dig at religion or Christianity, is more about bad teachers and good faith." Clash Music called it "guitar pop of real depth and nuance." Their previous single "Quiet Life" is also out now, a charming, slow-building lament that broadens out like a rolling landscape. The accompanying video shows the band wandering around a deserted Venice Beach boardwalk right before fleeing the US ahead of the pandemic lockdown last March.
Feb 2, 2021
Jan 31, 2021
The Big Singles Vol. 1 • Big Blast Records • 2021
We just released our first singles compilation on Bandcamp which features new tracks from all 6 of our artists.
The Bishops Daredevil Stunt Club, The Glad Machine, The Peeves, Golden Richards, Mark Watson Band, and Phil Angotti are bringing big guitars, harmonies, and sticky hooks to these songs each with their own signature vibe.
Jan 29, 2021
Amber Jay • Stay The Same • 2021
https://www.officialamberjay.com
“The term ‘bedroom-pop’ has often implied imperfect, perhaps lo-fi music, but it’s artists like Liverpool based pop newcomer Amber Jay that are redefining it” - Earmilk
“Delicately intimate and powerfully magnetic” - When The Horn Blows
“Amber Jay’s acoustic-driven pop is infused with intricate melodies and real depth of emotional heart” - Bido Lito!
“Full of atmosphere and unique flare” - The Lowdown Magazine
“Takes her cues from Phoebe Bridgers with this brooding dark-pop” - Mystic Sons
“Bedroom music is all the range right now and some do it better than others” - Our Sound
“It feels like Billie Eilish meets girl in red in the best possible way” - God Bless The Bands
Beams • Born to Win • 2021
"You can hear that fear in “Born to Win,” but you can also hear that courage and determination. There’s something literally life-affirming—and self-compassionate—in MÄ“rnieks-Duffield’s repeated insistence, in the song’s bridge, that 'I was born.' It’s one of those reckonings that begets further reckonings." -American Songwriter
Druids of Stonehenge •The Prettiest Train • 2020
“One evening in late 2018, Billy Cross and I were listening to prison work-gang chants from off my old Smithsonian label CD. These were the recordings done by Alan Lomax in 1948 at the Parchman Prison Farm. That storied institution in southern Mississippi was a place where (mostly) black prisoners worked as virtual slaves, hired out by the warden to do jobs that no one else would take, like building railroads through the swamps”.
Jan 28, 2021
Rosehip Teahouse • No Gloom • 2021
“Rosehip Teahouse seem unstoppable in the realm of super dreamy soundscapes” The Line Of Best Fit
“Twinkly bedroom-pop” DIY
“Divine vocal in swathes of sound” Clash
“Bedroom pop loveliness” Dork
“Bright, indie dream pop” Gigwise
“Melodious indie-pop” Beats Per Minute
“Beautiful and heartfelt pop” So Young Magazine
“The best that bedroom pop has to offer” Refinery29
Jan 27, 2021
Haley Heynderickx • Tiny Desk Concert • 2018
Unlike her solo acoustic contest entries, which are quiet, mostly solemn affairs, Haley Heynderickx came to NPR's Tiny Desk with her band: Denzel Mendoza on trombone, Lily Breshears on Moog bass, and Phil Rogers on drums. They opened with the song that is most out of character for Haley, a song she wrote as part of a song challenge and she challenged the crowd here at NPR to a sing-a-long. We didn't do so well, it was early in the day — but this song about self-doubt and searching for life's meaning with its cathartic phrase "I need to start a garden" (which is also the title to her 2018 debut) is a potent reminder to take action when life gets bewildering.
The second song, "No Face," is a reminder to love people as kindly as you can; otherwise you'll wind up like the character No Face from the Hayao Miyazaki film Spirited Away. In introducing the final song, "Worth It," Haley Heynderickx told the Tiny Desk crowd that it was written in a basement with the belief that it would never leave that basement. With this performance now behind her and the chance for hundreds of thousands of people to hear these personal but universal songs, there will be many of us, myself included, thrilled that her songs are out in the open, ready to be heard.
Set List
"Oom Sha La La"
"No Face"
"Worth It"
Musicians
Haley Heynderickx (vocals, guitar), Denzel Mendoza (trombone), Lily Breshears (Moog bass), Phil Rogers (drums)
Nick Schofield • Ambient Architect • 2021
“soothing and pellucid, meditative and transporting.” – Paste Magazine
“gorgeous ambience” – ThrdCoast
“a peaceful tranquility that inspires deep listening and contemplation.” – A Closer Listen
“a sound that beckons for tranquility and release.” – Never Apart
Declan McKenna • Rapture • 2021
Declan has garnered praise from the likes of Billboard, USA Today, and The A.V. Club, who said, “Declan McKenna has one of the strongest cases to be made in years for continuing the tradition of McCartney-esque melodies, with simple instrumentation and addictive hooks… more swaggering, Bowie-like intensity at times, but otherwise, McKenna’s the real deal of unfiltered, organic pop songcraft arranged with the fundamentals—and little else, because it’s all he needs.”
Jan 26, 2021
Sun Kin • After the House • 2021
Sun Kin is the project of Los Angeles based producer Kabir Kumar. Born in Bombay, India and raised in five different countries, Kumar’s music is informed by the intimacy and audacious vulnerability that can only exist through learning to bond through transience. Kumar has been making music under the Sun Kin moniker for nearly a decade, traveling from a psych folk project to something more rooted in a combination of the Middle Eastern and Indian pop music they grew up on with elements of Acid House, disco and R&B. Kumar’s whole life as an artist has been marked by momentum and migration. As they’ve homed in on their craft they’ve accumulated new sonic textures, new territories, and different modes of expression. This bricolage and deep inquiry into movement reaches its apotheosis on After the House, Kumar’s fourth full length as Sun Kin. It is here that they conjure together seven dance tracks designed for late night introspection.
Jan 25, 2021
Jan 24, 2021
Kindsight • How I Feel • 2021
The quartet makes retro-tinged indie pop that is instantly appealing and addictive. Nina's vocals crowns the atmospheric soundscape perfectly and makes Kindsight something that's been missing in Scandinavia for a long time.
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