A full bushel of new tracks for your weekend consumption, and we're impressed with the talent on offer. To begin with, our "new" headliner is Chapterhouse, but the "new music" is actually early unreleased demos that have been much loved among a small group of ears that have heard it. Now we're all blessed, as these demos found their way to proper release via Sonic Cathedral, and there's good reason […]
New weekend, new releases to celebrate, and none more anticipated than the new LP from DIIV (pictured above, photo credit Louie Kovatch). It's a mood, it's a construct, it's a coping process in action. For background, see our Marky Anderson's review for Static Sounds Club blog here. And while it is a landmark release that will inspire conversation and comparison for the rest of the year, it's certainly impossible to […]
Bandcamp Friday, and it's an embarrassment of riches. More new tracks added this weekend than about any weekend we can remember in the past year. Headliners come from some long awaited releases: Young Prisms, Astragal, Whimsical and Moodlighting (pictured above). While there's much to adore from all three, we'd call your attention to Moodlighting new album Boy wonder, especially our pick to click, "Drowning in it". Deceptively compelling, by turns […]
Even partway through a busy release week, and we recognized there would be a pile of quality sounds to sort through, more than in the last several weeks combined. That's the kind of challenge we tend to rise to. This weekend's sonic headliners include Tape Waves, who stealth-released a new album today, on both domestic and international labels you'll know well if you're a regular listener. The new singles from […]
The stars sparkle this weekend, as we celebrate the new albums from Crystal Canyon (pictured above) and Cathedral Bells. Both have been expertly teased out on our air, now it's time to champion the full releases. We're also big on new music from Mute Swan, All Under Heaven, Color Crush, Relay Tapes, GRIVE, The Haunted Youth, Teen Idle, Sun Mashene, Mascara Ashes, Saigon Blue Rain, Pale Blue Eyes, Nightcrush, Jetstream […]
