M. Ward – More Rain - 2016

M. Ward

It's been over three years since M. Ward released his last solo album, 2012's A Wasteland Companion. Today, he's announced the follow-up to that LP: More Rain, arriving March 4 via Merge. The record features collaborations with R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Neko Case, k.d. lang, the Secret Sisters, and NRBQ's Joey Spampinato. PF

More Rain:

01 More Rain

02 Pirate Dial

03 Time Won't Wait

04 Confession

05 I'm Listening (Child's Theme)

06 Girl From Conejo Valley

07 Slow Driving Man

08 You're So Good To Me

09 Temptation

10 Phenomenon

11 Little Baby

12 I'm Going Higher

Dr. Duloc - Bowl Cuts - 2015

Dr. Duloc is Dublin based wunderboy Henry Ernest, part of Mr. Rosso and an absolute lo-fi master in his own right. 

Bowl Cuts is Ernest's first release with LLR, an amazing lo-fi pop record which thinks outside of the box, bringing weirdo pop sounds together with spoken word synth tracks and introspective acoustic numbers. Throughout the album we hear switches between Alex G-esque dark pop tunes and funky Connan Mockasin meets Mac Demarco songs, with his influences infusing and becoming a melting pot for something truly unique in the lo-fi scene. 

For fans of R. Stevie Moore, Beck and Alex G. 

Thee Mightees - Smiling - 2015

Van Thomas It's pure jangle-pop at its finest; a little rough around the edges in part, but that lack of polish only adds to its appeal and charm. A belting debut; already looking forward to more in 2016! 

Alan Godsell Quite simply the best album of 2015. Jangly guitars and a little rough round the edges but melodies that will have you hooked in no time.

Animal Daydream - Citrus EP - 2016

jigsaw-records.com

"Last year, Animal Daydream appeared on the scene and took the indiepop world by storm, garnering positive press from all around the globe - pretty impressive for a new, enigmatic duo from Gothenburg, Sweden. Now, just over one year after the release of their debut single, we are proud to present another small batch of songs that will just melt away in your ears. Not too far off from what they gave us the first time, these songs are reminiscent of later Teenage Fanclub and Fleet Foxes, but also borrow liberally from the sound of '70s soft rock, particularly Fleetwood Mac and CSNY, with their strong vocal harmonies and overall smooth, almost slick production. And once again, all four tracks are pure gold, solid gold."

- Jigsaw records 

Phooey! - VIRGIN BLUES - 2015

From smooth to chaos… how can so much beauty become so frantic so quickly? I don't know and I don't care! This is a great release.

ratbath - dead skin cells - 2016

maybe the places we are in change what we are 

maybe context rubs off on us the way we leave dead skin cells in the places we frequent 

maybe it leaves its cells on us the same way 

and we just trade back and forth 

until we aren't us or here or there but a new thing altogether 

- a poem by becca uliasz

Jacob Faurholt - Super Glue - 2016

jacobfaurholt.com

Danish songwriter Jacob Faurholt has for more than 10 years released albums both in his own name and under the alias Crystal Shipsss. His music ranges from lo-fi home recordings, 90es inspired indie rock to ambient drone metal.

Songs For Walter - 2016

http://www.songsforwalter.com/

"…songs that you feel have always been with you and remind you of all your favourite memories...life changing" Jacob Graham 'The Drums'

Regatta EP - 2016

Dream pop with wonderful hooks, pauses and crashes making this a very nice EP.

Lowpines - That Bridge Washed Away In The Storm (EP) - 2016

“a slow-burning torch song” Q Magazine – Tracks of the week

"Beautiful" Lauren Laverne 6Music

"joyous!" Steve Lamacq 6Music

"just gorgeous" Simon Raymonde Amazing Radio

"Mesmerising" God Is In The TV

"Sombre and sultry... we were blown away" The Upcoming

"Gorgeous lo-fi folk" Wake The Deaf

"Stunning..." GoldFlakePaint

"dustily defiant americana" Mad 

Windmill - Bumper Pack of Relics - 2016

matthewthomasdillon.com

"An exquisite and imaginative London talent, Windmill combines star-gazing and shoe-gazing without a hint of mediocre middle ground…” - BBC

Eleanor Friedberger - New View - 2016

Eleanor Friedberger

Friedberger’s latest album is called New View, and it’s the third she’s released since the dissolution of The Fiery Furnaces, the indie rock band she anchored alongside brother Matthew throughout the ‘00s. It’s not as ambitious or eclectic as Last Summer, an album that leapt from funk to folk to pop-soul and back again, but it’s warm, rambling, and assured. And while much of Friedberger’s best solo work has mined romantic or social anxiety, New View finds her navigating the world with relative ease. That doesn’t mean it’s boring, but it’s consciously minor. the verge

"I HOPE THAT THIS ALBUM JUST SOUNDS LIKE AN ADULT WOMAN WHO'S OKAY."

Lubec - Concentration- 2016

"So now when I pry my eyes open to play a bit of a mindless video game, I will also duct tape the headphones to my ears, glue the volume control on the highest setting with Lubec in the player, and just let it all go into blissful meltdown" - Tiny Mix Tapes

"Lubec blazes through the thick, fuzzy clouds of the Pacific Northwest with driving, melodic tunes." - Impose

"They are among the city's elite loud-pop heavyweights." - The Portland Mercury

"Lubec is a band that bounces well off the walls, forming the occasional bruise or bloody mark, but usually in the shape of something beautifully deceiving" - Impression of Sound

Harmoos - WRONGGG - 2015

http://harmoos.com

Harmoos is a ghost rock band from around Boston, MA.  Motivational songs about freaking out and feeling ok.

Florist - The Birds Outside Sang - 2016

The Birds Outside Sang is an album about the speed at which rain falls, life goes on, and people grow. It's one part a personal, autobiographical, and almost completely chronological telling of a time in my life full of confusion, physical + emotional pain, loneliness, and hope. It is another part a rebirth of a musical friendship between my best friends in the whole world, and an attempt to highlight the importance of love and the things in life that give you something special to hold on to, to find a calm that can carry you through being alive and being scared. 

Waste​-​a​-​Life: Bedroom Suck Records - 2016

https://bedroomsuckrecords.com

Still Flyin' - Perfect Future - 2016

Still Flyin’ are a silly, dumb blast of a bash worth attending.” – NME

WWNBB is excited to team up with Ernest Jenning Record Co. and Lost and Lonesome to announce Perfect Future, the fourth album from San Francisco’s Still Flyin‘.

Still Flyin’s Sean Rawls had a child at the end of 2012, a few months after their most recent album (On A Bedroom Wall) was released, which spelled a day job and no more world tours. In his words, “My identity as ‘dude in a band’ turned into ‘new dad who used to be in a band.'” Once an endless tinkerer who crafted songs constantly, he suddenly found himself with little time for any of that. He ended up having to carve out songwriting time between his son’s naps, and one of these short bursts of songwriting resulted in three of Perfect Future‘s tracks (“Get Out of My Car”, “Navarone” and “Tea Leaves”).

The band ended up recording in much the same way — all of the basic tracks were bashed out in three days of recording, which was much quicker than they were used to. Keeping with the general theme, the record was mixed very quickly by Phil Manley (Trans Am), and the result is raw, immediate, unedited and undeniably fun. wwnbb

Courtney Barnett - Third Man Records - Blue Series - 2015

A. Boxing Day Blues Revisited is written by Courtney Barnett (it is not the same song as Boxing Day Blues...) 

B. Shivers was written by the late Rowland S. Howard and first performed and recorded by The Boys Next Door.

Split 7" - (​Walrus​/​/​Shadow Folk​/​/​Gnarwhalz​/​/​Sheepman​)​

A 4-way split 7" vinyl released by Out Of Sound Records also featuring: 

Walrus 

walrustheband.bandcamp.com/track/1990 

Gnarwhalz 

gnarwhalz.bandcamp.com/track/wayne 

Sheepman 

sheepman.bandcamp.com/track/chetwynd 

Kissing Fractures - lost self - 2014

"lost self" is a collection of songs that were written and recorded between july 2013 and july 2014. together, they reveal how i dealt with everything that plagued me in the past year, and how i managed to find temporary solace.

“a woman once told me that if i mixed my tears with honey

i would feel nothing

but i’m not numb yet

and the winter solstice is oddly warm

and not knowing is slowly killing me

i just want to go back to sleep,”

http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/2014/11/20/kissing-fractures-lost-self/