the revolutionary army of the infant jesus • songs of yearning • 2020

Their music is unusual, ambitious and mesmerising. Influenced by the culture of Mainland - and especially Eastern - Europe. Their emotionally-charged soundscapes combine ethereal vocals, ambient compositions, chants, acoustic instrumentation and field recordings, the effect of which is often haunting, beautiful and emotionally intense. Live, their identity is often shrouded behind screens, veils and enigmatic imagery.

Scott Avett & G.E. Smith • "Just Be Simple" • 2017

You never hear me talk about one day getting out
Why put a new address on the same old loneliness
Everybody knows where that is
We built that house of his
And when he's not home
Someone else you know always is
If Heaven's really coming back
I hope it has a heart attack
When they see how dangerous it is for guys like that
The night has always known when it's time to get going
When it's really been so long that it starts showing

Laura Marling • Tiny Desk (Home) Concert • 2020

While many artists have postponed the release of their new music in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Laura Marling rushed to change the release date of her album from late summer to April. On this Tiny Desk (home) concert, we find her in her living room, with an intimate performance of songs from her just-released record Songs For Our Daughter. The album is an homage to a future generation of women and to Maya Angelou's Letter to My Daughter, a collection of essays addressed to a fictional daughter. The warm, home setting makes room for Laura Marling's extraordinary voice to shine.

Scott Avett • Denial • 2020

I’ve been afraid of losing
Everything that I worked to become
I’ve been dying slower than I should
Breathing that sanitized oxygen

Denial
Defiant demons lie
In the wake of the morning light
In the wake of the morning light

At the dawn of delusion
My mind has finally arrived
At the death of a father
The son has finally come to life

Clem Snide & Scott Avett • "Easy" • Live From Just Beyond • 2020

Clem Snide & Scott Avett perform "Easy" https://orcd.co/foreverjustbeyond

Eef Barzelay has seen many of the highs and lows that a music career can provide. Clem Snide, the indie-rock band he founded in 1991, signed a major-label contract with Sire, recorded the theme song for a season of the NBC comedy Ed, performed on Late Night With Conan O’Brien and received praise from critics near and far. None of that, however, translated into real money, and the group was dropped by labels, abandoned by managers and torn by internal dissension. The nadir for Barzelay came when the Nashville resident had to file for bankruptcy in 2011. NASH

Kidsmoke • The Bluest You • 2020

“Their songs to date are like exquisite, detail-rich pastoral pop miniatures, all lovestruck or lovelorn lyrics, perfect chord progressions, dovetailing harmonies and jingle-jangling guitars.”

The Sunday Times

“Delightfully melancholy”

Steve Lamacq, BBC6 Music

“Kidsmoke continue to make a name for themselves as purveyors of uplifting indie” 

The Line of Best Fit

“If you class yourself as a die-hard fan of indie music, Welsh band Kidsmoke will make for a very exciting proposition”

Indie Shuffle

Hard Working Boss • OCD Girlfriend • 2020

Scott Avett & G.E. Smith • "Forever Just Beyond" • 2017

Oh God is simply that which lies
Forever just beyond the limits
Of what we already seem to know

And I want to know you
Like an invitation
We have only questions
Bless these limitations

And I want to see you
In the tree tops swaying
But I'll always find you
In the wet grass saying
"God is simply that which lies
Forever just beyond the limits
Of what we already seem to know"

And oh what graceful patterns
That repeat then scatter
If my steps seem random
And my will abandoned
The machine elves whisper
"Let the matter settle
Worrying is praying
Praying to the devil"

Clem Snide

Sylvan Esso • Coffee • 2020

Sylvan Esso



WITH captures the final two performances of Sylvan Esso’s unique fall 2019 tour. The limited run of shows saw the band expand by magnitudes, bringing in loads of backing musicians with impressive pedigrees. Drummer Matt McCaughan (Bon Iver), bassist/synth player/keyboardist Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak), synth player Dev Gupta (Mr. Twin Sister), and drummer Joe Westerlund (Mandolin Orange) were all part of the live band. What’s more, Sylvan Esso singer Amelia Meath’s bandmates from Mountain Man, Molly Sarlé and Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, also joined in on vocals.

Super Pyramid • Jewels Away • 2020

“While the basic formula of vulnerable intonations over a lush amalgam of electronic loops and live instrumentation has not changed, the mood of "Jewels Away" is markedly, if subtly, more assured than the songs from Super Pyramid's debut EP Devoid. The first release’s melancholy waltz, “There’s Nothing Wrong with You,” feels at pains to convince the listener of its title’s claim, expressing a seemingly unresolvable tension between intellectual and emotional knowledge. On the other hand, “Jewels Away” observes anxiety-induced inertia with perceptive grace through singer Ben Rowey and new member Chelsea Mei Lee’s repeated declaration that “nothing’s holding you back, but it’s easier than moving forward.”

Josh Ritter • The Silo Sessions: The Animal Years • 2020

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Endless Forms • Everything Still Waits for Me • 2020

Endless Forms is the solo project of Tulsa-based artist Justin Allen. In the wake of breaking off an engagement and dropping out of college, Allen began Endless Forms earnestly in 2014 as a therapeutic creative outlet. After a few close friends heard demos and insisted he play live by offering to be his backing band, Allen began taking Endless Forms on the road all while recording two albums under the name in 2014 and 2017.



Amidst lineup changes and fielding licensing offers (eventually securing an appearance on an upcoming episode of Netflix’s Elite), Allen decided to put Endless Forms on hiatus in 2017 to focus on other creative outlets.

www.endlessformsmusic.com

The period between then and this May’s comeback LP More Than Candy was anything but a lull for Allen. Finding time to write a novel about the Los Angeles art scene while taking up weekly marathons and producing music, he decided it was time to start working on a third Endless Forms album in the wake of a friend shelving a record they’d been working on. Initially started as a set of ambient tracks, Candy became Endless Forms’ most fully-fledged foray into pop-minded songcraft while holding onto elements of its ambient origins.

Day Wave • Crush • 2020

Four new songs from Los Angeles, CA based band, Day Wave.

Gareth Inkster • Vacant • 2020

Scott Orr • Tape Demos • 2020

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earth moon transit • Boring Songs for Boring Days • 2020

My band just released our new EP. We made it over a couple of weeks in March while being in isolation, The title track is probably the song that is closest to being classified as slowcore. Really hope you wouldn't mind checking it out, we would really appreciate it. :)

Tom Rosenthal • Hope • 2020

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Adeline Hotel • Strange Sometimes • 2020

"The new Solid Love LP sits as their finest work to-date...

The record is a collection of sumptuous melodies,

a realm to step inside of and be immeidately absorbed."

- Gold Flake Paint

"Moody, introspective indie-folk for a solitary

night with headphones on and eyes closed."

- American Songwriter

"Gorgeous soft pop landscapes ... [that meld] gentle psych-folk

detours into the echo of blossoming indie rock rumblings."

- Beats Per Minute

"Simply gorgeous... lush yet spacious.”

- Abduction Radiation

Dominic Wolf • Only For Mad People • 2020

“Artfully realised bedroom pop” (Music.Map)

“Luscious indie pop with soothing vocals and a delicate melody” (Little Dose of Indie)

Love In The Time Of Covid • 2020

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VeniVersus is proud to announce "Love In The Time Of Covid", an evocative benefit compilation in which an all-star team of musicians join forces to raise funds for the World Health Organization (WHO). It features only previously unreleased recordings by some of the most relevant acts from the slowcore, dreampop and drone-rock scenes. 

All proceeds will go to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund (covid19responsefund.org), supporting WHO’s work to track and understand the spread of the virus, to ensure patients get the care they need and frontline workers get essential supplies and information, and to accelerate research and development of a vaccine and treatments for all who need them.