Few things feel like summer more than a new Woods song. The band’s hazy folk-pop proclivities dust up pastoral hues and the kind of blissful harmonies that lend themselves well dazed moments…
The slow simmer of Zelma Stone’s “Gift Horse” builds from the moment it flickers to life. Over an arid guitar line, the band’s Chloe Studebaker lays out an incantation on grace, acceptance,…
I mentioned this single a couple of weeks back when the album went up for pre-order but a new video gives another chance to bring the great Tobacco City to the forefront…
Following his album Cedars for Temporary Residence, LTD, Stuart Hyatt deconstructed the album and rebuilt tracks as instrumentals, letting the earthen air stir a bit deeper and darker than before. The album…
It’s been a moment since I’ve had a new Hidden Gems, but with a deluge of new releases in the last couple of weeks, things are back in business. This week’s comes…
Following several years of solid mayhem with Wireheads, Australian songwriter Dom Trimboli has moved his madness under the awning of Dom & The Wizards. The band let out a few sneak-up singles…
Yet another lovely single escapes from the upcoming Cameron Knowler LP from American Dreams. The album closer, “Kuyina” is a patient, painterly track that circles the guitar traditions of the American Southwest.…
I’m excited for this upcoming Umbrellas LP from Slumberland, and the band releases another tantalizing single from the eponymous debut this week. The band, self-confessed fans of Sarah Recs, The Pastels, and…
A slight tributary off of the consistently excellent Canadian psych-funk collective Badge Époque Ensemble, the band’s Max Turnbull revisits a project that spans years of collecting sounds and sources to create an…
Today’s practically packed with new music and I’m going to do my best to keep up. The always entrancing Vanishing Twin is back with a new album for Fire Recordings. The first…
There have been a ton of excellent records coming out of Toronto’s Idée Fixe Records lately, and among the top have been the last couple of records from ROY. The band’s Patrick…
Always a batch of bliss out of Aural Canyon, but this time they team up with the atmospheric float of Future Museums for the label’s first LP proper. The opener “Hum Body”…
A little while back I covered an older gem from The Vacant Smiles and last week Spoilsport put out an EP from the band’s Seamus Whelan and James Lynch. Along with members…
As stated, it is kinda nuts in hindsight that at their pinnacle, Birds of Maya trucked out to the venerable Black Dirt Studios in upstate NY, recorded a ripper of an album…
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