Singles of the Week (08//22)

1) Dreamwreck - Death Drive 

 

After his debut album “Cruise Utopia” released in 2020 on Passat Continu, the electronic composer Canaan Balsam signs its second venture in ambient and new age soundscapes through Dreamwreck, a not so unexpected collaboration with Cosima Cobley Carr, with whom he had already worked before, counting several features in Cruise Utopia. Dreamwreck combines ethereal electronic soundscapes with traditional instrumentation and collage elements, including melodic vocals, spoken word, found or archival sounds and field recordings. Through the calming, angelic vocals of Cobley Carr, Death Drive is a four-track ambient piece that transports us to our deepest dreams, only brought back to reality by calming but nonetheless assertive declamations from the English artist. The EP names itself after a concept derived from psychoanalysis – “Faced with destructive behaviour and elements in our psychological experience which seem to work against us, Freud inferred the idea of an essentially destructive instinct that underlies human psychology” - says Cosima Cobley Carr. Each track of this album reflects on human behaviour, such as the ever-morphing relationships in “Fade to Fade”, the uncanny presence of death and destruction in life in “Appears to be Living”, and the lament to a...
more credits releases February 25, 2022

 

(12" vinyl, EP - Modern Obscure Music)

2) zachwyt - zachwyt

 

 

 Shoegaze solo project made by teen composer from oświęcim, Poland. his music is focused on balance between dreamy and loud noises. To crank it up its all wrapped by 

pretty lofi vibe. wish you like it...

digital platform release 26/2/2022

 

 
(EP - zachwyt)

3) Clinic Stars - April's Past 

 

 

 

Debut material from Detroit, Michigan dreampop / shoegaze duo Christian Molik: vocals, guitars, bass, drums Giovanna Lenski: vocals, keyboard Violin performed by Angela Kim Sitar by Alex Lenski credits released February 23, 2022 "Near You Again" mixed by Ryan Biehl. "April's Past" mixed by Adam Stilson. "Nothing Lasts" written by Karen Beth. Cover text by Tanner Jackson. All songs written, recorded, and produced by Clinic Stars. Mastered by Sean McCann. 

 

(EP, cassette - Clinic Stars)

4) BARBAЯA - Is it Just a Dream / Nisha

 

 

 
News from post-punk / new wave Chicago, Illinois Jonny Drake released February 24,2022

 

 
(EP - BARBAЯA)

5) SPICE - Any Day Now

 

 

 
"Any Day Now" is from SPICE's sophomore album, "Viv", out May 20, 2022 on Dais Records. Pre-order on limited edition vinyl, CD and digital at: https://found.ee/viv The second LP by California rock n roll unit SPICE expands their palette of damaged anthems and addiction poetics with a more bristling, visceral sound, distilled from years in the trenches of bands, break-ups, and breakdowns. Singer Ross Farrar explains their chemistry succinctly: “We all got in a room and this is what came out.” Viv is named for a precursor project of bassist Cody Sullivan and violinist Victoria Skudlarek, but also alludes to broader notions of vividness, sonic, visual, and otherwise. Engineered by Jack Shirley and mixed/mastered by Sam Pura in Oakland, the mix achieves that rare balance of every element being elevated but distinct, with voices, strings, and drums each given space to blaze parallel paths. Opener “Recovery” captures SPICE at their stormy, weathered best, booming drums and East Bay riffs skidding out in a rockslide of rapture, regret, and bruised melody (“You sacrifice perfect days to laugh through the night / you have to get out of bed / and it’s hard / and it’s hard / it’s so hard to admit”), peaking in Ian Simpson’s poignant single-note vibrato guitar solo; Farrar agrees: “The guitar says what we cannot.” Other tracks embrace the group’s shredded pop potential (“Any Day Now,” “Dining Out,” “Live Scene”) and their speedway ripper mode (“Threnody”), with detours into oblique instrumentals (“Melody Drive”) and orchestral balladeering (“Ashes In The Birdbath”). But what unites and ignites these songs across different energies and arrangements is their specific sense of emotion. Rawness refined into reckonings, approaching truth, born of cold mornings, bad luck, and too many wrong turns. Waking up where you’re not supposed to be, living a life you don’t recognize. The album ends with no end to its narrative, still fighting, still slipping. Farrar calls “Climbing Down The Ladder” a “relapse song – telling people you’re okay but you’re still fucking up.” Heartbeat drums march under heartbroken guitars in an elegant downward spiral of defeat, delusion, and desperate hope, dreamed more than believed: “I said it was the last time / but I was up so high / 100 miles / 1000 miles / no me in sight / I saw into the next life / I wasn’t dead / I felt so vivid in the next life.” "Any Day Now"
credits: Shot by SPICE Edited by Brian Sowell Skating by Tony Walker 

 

(digital, video - Dais)
 

vinyl:
EPs:
English Summer - Holding Against Our Own /EP/
Billow - IV /EP/
Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters - Destiny Waiving Köln Versionen /EP/
Irish Basement - Surfin' Serotonin /EP/
Noví Lidé - Naděje a klid (remixes EP)
Ammonia Wash - Burning /EP/
Reaching Venus - Come Alive /EP/
Dozr - Hat Trick /EP/
Null State - Getting Lost / Spinning /EP/
Welk - Mahr /EP/
Downward - The Brass Tax /EP/
The Deepest Gaze - Hibernaculum /EP/
digi single, video:
Sunflower Thieves - Lichtenberg Figures
Sugar For The Pill - Quicksand
Small Black - Nobody Loves You
Mint Julep - Shout
Go With Strangers - Ritchie Sacramento
Go Hawaii - Coastal
Far Caspian - Come Down and Waste With Me
Boy With Apple - Linger On
Nrthrn - Of
I'm the Villain - Little voices
Momma - Rockstar
Big Image x Chaney - Crazier (Go Large Remix)
Bloc Party - Sex Magik
Brain Cave - Bloodletting
Crystal Eyes - Don't Turn Around
Carly Cosgrove - The Great Doheny
Clearfight - Avalanche
DASEY HILL - Let the Ocean Take You (feat. Dan Rola of Krang)
Stay Out - Super High School Pizza Party 1999
Loop - Fermion
Girls In Synthesis - Enveloped
Just Mustard - Still
Porridge Radio - Back To The Radio
Miro Žbirka - Nejsi sám (feat. David Žbirka)
Soft Cell - Happiness Not Included
Men Without Hats - If the World Should End Today

Singles of the Week (07//22)

1) Brothers in Law - A Song For You

 

 This song is for you Andrea /Guagno).
How many roads we have travelled together, and how many words are carved in my soul. Wherever you are, happy birthday. 13 Febraury 2022
A side - A Song For You B side - Childhood Composer: Nicola Lampredi 7" Limited Edition 250 copies Release date 17 July 2022

 

 
(digital - WWNBB)

2) Arctic Plateau - Chlorine

 

 

 Chlorine is a single extracted from Arctic Plateau's album "Songs of Shame", released via Shunu Records on December 3rd 2021.
Directed by Andrea Sperduti. Arctic Plateau - this is the nom de plume of Gianluca Divirgilio, an Italian musician with an incredible sense for epic arrangements and song structures whose first recordings offer timeless music between the poles of Post Rock, Shoegaze and Indie. Gianluca himself describes the compositions of Arctic Plateau as 'explicitly dreamed music'. 

 

(video - Shunu)

3) La Casa al Mare - Otherwise / Autumn

 

 

 

 News from Rome, Italy noise pop released February 14, 2022
Alessio Pindinelli: guitars, vocals, farfisa Marco Poloni: bass Paolo Miceli: drums, more guitar on Autumn Produced and mixed by Alessio Pindinelli, La Casa Al Mare Engineered by Fabio Galeone TY Matteo Ruberto for more fuzz on Otherwise 

 

(digital - La Casa al Mare)


4) A Place To Bury Strangers - Love Reaches Ou 

 

 

 This is the fifth video from A Place To Bury Strangers new album See Through You out now on Dedstrange. "The hope at the end of the tunnel concluding this album," says APTBS bandleader Oliver Ackermann. "I went through such a traumatic experience while writing this record and yet there were people there to help me through so this song is about appreciating and thanking them." In the latest video from director Gabriel Carrer (FOR THE SAKE OF VICIOUS, THE DEMOLISHER), A woman unexpectedly encounters and reaches out to a shapeshifting entity in the most unlikely manner. This entity befriends her after it was left for dead, and gives her the support needed to help battle her own anxiety and inner demons.

 

 
(video - Dedstrange)

 
5) Young Prisms - Self Love

 

 

 New single from Young Prisms' 3rd album 'Drifter' out March 25th on Fire Talk Drifter is a record that finds steadiness in the embrace of uncertainty. Young Prisms have always delivered stories that have remained mostly shrouded in a dreamlike state, the kind of dreams where you never quite get to where you’re aiming to go, and the ones which unravel in melancholy when you open your eyes and reality sets in. With their first new music in ten years, the band explores the tension and release that comes with bringing your head down from the clouds and making sense of the tangible entanglements that make up everyday existence. "You’ve spent your whole life wondering if you’ll ever live up to your own expectations, but one day realize that it’s ok to just be a normal, boring human.
You’re used to running away from life because you hate yourself and now you are pleasantly surprised by a new feeling to let go and accept yourself,” explains lead vocalist Stefanie Hodapp. Comprised of Hodapp (vocals, synthesizer), Matthew Allen (vocals, guitar, bass, synthesizer, drum programming), Giovanni Betteo (bass, guitar, synthesizer, drum programming) and Jordan Silbert (drums)

 

 
(digital, video - Fire Talk)
 

vinyl:
The Wedding Present - I Am Not Going To Fall In Love With You / A Song From Under The Floorboards (7")
Baba Ali - Living It Up / Black & Blue (7")
EPs:
Chubby and the Gang - Labour of Love /EP/
Cloudwalk - Looming Large /EP/
The Ocean Boy - Vampires /EP/
Big Water - Park /EP/
digi single, video:
modernlove. - Follow You
Howless - Unlucky
Dehd - Bad Love
Don't Worry - Every Corner
VR SEX - Walk of Fame
Rutka Laskier - Jeremiášova Konec Světa
EVNTYD - Boredom
If It Kills You - Parallel Lines (feat. Shelby Cinca)
Dino Gala - British
A Skylit Drive - Dead Serious
Die! Die! Die! - This Is Not An Island Anymore
Nuggiez - The Creeps
HEALTH x LAMB OF GOD - Cold Blood
Wallice - Little League
Guerilla Toss - Famously Alive
Deanna Petcoff - Devastatingly Mediocre
Blushing - Ours
Whimsical - Rewind
Fun With Ether - Crown Shyness
Lesser Care - Meadow
Secret Attraction - Peppermint
Stella Diana - Sleepless Girl
Stars - Pretenders
Troye Sivan / Jay Som - Trouble
Web Rumors - Heaven
Future Islands - King of Sweden
Madeline Goldstein - One More Day
Hatchie - Giving The World Away

Singles of the Week (06//22)

1) Go With Strangers - Finding Ikigai

 

 "Go With Strangers" is a alternative-rock band, founded by Eugene San.
Never one to want, or ever thought to step into the spotlight as a front man of a band. Alternative Rock band “Go With Strangers” was a music project that guitarist and producer Eugene San pondered long upon, at the beginning. “All my life, I hated hearing my own voice on recordings.” Eugene confessed. Caught up in meddling with ambient and electronic music, during the few years before 2021 - It all began with a ‘full-band format‘ YouTube cover song, that Eugene tried singing on during the lockdown in 2021, which reignited his passion for writing guitar-driven music. Not being able to find a compatible vocalist for the project with the inconvenience of lockdown, Eugene decided to face his social anxiety head-on, picking up the mic for the first time in his life. Fully self-produced and engineered, the debut EP “Finding Ikigai” speaks of finding one’s inner happiness, and purpose in life. “Iki-gai” is a Japanese concept that means your ‘reason for being’. To be able to do something that brings pleasure, and also the fulfillment that follows when one pursues their passion in life. Finding Ikigai EP is a mélange of emotions, ambience, and dreams. “Writing this new EP was a beautiful escape from reality for me,” said Eugene. “Into another epic, and nebulous world with metallic but lush terrains. Vast landscape of lilac tinted clouds that stretches far beyond the eye can see, with the emergence of a short-lived passing storm... I am grateful for the experience.” If you’re a fan of Alternative Rock, and Post-Rock, this could be an exciting new EP to check out early this year. credits releases February 11, 2022 

 

(EP - Eugene San)

2) Boy With Apple - Strawberry Boy

 

 

 New video from shoegaze / dreampop from Gothenburg, Sweden. 

digital release January 28, 2022 

 

(video - Boy With Apple/ VÅRØ)

3) Death Of Heather - Pretty Things

 

 

 
News from Bangkok, Thailand
A four-piece alternative, shoegaze and dream pop band formed in 2017
Death of Heather consists of Tay (lead vocals and guitar), Nine (lead guitar), Thong (bass) and Non (drums). 

 

(digital, video - Smallroom Bangkok Pop Music)

4) The Asteroid No.4 - Set Your Sights

 

 

 New single from album Tones Of The Sparrow out 25/3/2022
The Asteroid No.4 is an American band based north of San Francisco, CA. Originating from Philadelphia in the late 1990s, the A4 remain an active studio and live act who are considered stalwarts of the modern “psych” genre. Known for their prolific discography of reverb-drenched recordings and liquid-projected live performances, the band is often categorized as “neo-psychedelic” or “shoegaze”. Happily in acceptance of often made comparisons to acts like Spacemen 3 or “Paisley Underground” kingpins, The Rain Parade; the band indeed has a sound all its own. 

 

(digital, video - Club AC30)

5) Trentemøller - Like A Daydream (feat. Lisbet Fritze)

 

 

 Trentemøller’s new album 'Memoria' out 11/2/2022 seems to exist at the confluence of inspiration, coincidence, and maybe even a little bit of the supernatural.
On 'Like A Daydream' Lisbet Fritze's earnestly delivered vocals are buoyed up by carillon guitar, tethered to a relaxed drum shuffle, by a progression of bass chords. 

 

(video - In My Room)
 

vinyl:
Lonely Pirate Committee - He Was in the Father / ODE (7")
EPs:
NewDad - Banshee /EP/
Tallies - Wound Up Tight /EP/
STOMP TALK MODSTONE - Worth It /EP/
Jaws The Shark - Another Day In Paradise (12" vinyl out 4/3/2022) /EP/
digi single, video:
Leisure Hour - Someone Like You
Shallows - July
No Swoon - Beside
Makeout City - Fadeout
Tears For Fears - Break The Man
Wings of Desire - Perfect World
Sooner - Thursday
Lunar Isles - Subnivean
Killing Joke - Lord Of Chaos
Endless Bore - Just Money (from 12" What Do You Dig For​?​! out 21/1/2022)
To Be Gentle - Lingering in My Dreams
Pacino - Pes
Bare Escape - Life Serum
Ocún - Prodali jsme léto
WRTHLESS - Glass Cabinet
IDLES - Crawl!
USA Nails - It's All In The Context
Crows - Room 156
50 Foot Wave - Staring Into The Sun
Drug Church - Premium Offer
MNNQNS - Full Circle Back
MEMES - Second Thought
Vitalic - The Light is a Train
Claas Herrmann - Choke
Roentgen Limiter - Techno Is Our Destiny Vol.2
Real Lies - An Oral History Of My First Kiss
Sidewalks and Skeletons - Exorcism

Singles of the Week (05//22)

1) Stay Lunar - Every Cloud 

  

News from 5-piece indie/dream-pop goodness from bristol UK 

releases February 2, 2022 

all tracks written by stay lunar all tracks mixed by sugar house all tracks produced by sugar house except carseat (self produced) all tracks mastered by robin schmidt (24-96 mastering) except carseat, which was mastered by Glenn Thomas 

 

(EP - SAM)

2) Slo Moon - Moonsun 

 

 

Debut EP from Savannah, Georgia dreampop / shoegaze project Brent Collins 

All songs written & recorded by Brent Collins 

credits releases February 4, 2022 All instruments played & recorded by Brent Collins Engineered & Mixed by Brent Collins 

 

 
(EP - slo moon)

3) Knuckle Puck - Disposable Life 

 

 

New material from Chicago, Illinois punk band...

releases February 4, 2022 

Produced by Seth Henderson at Always Be Genius Mixed by Vince Ratti Mastered by Kris Crummet Cover by Adam Sniezek Packaging by Matt Delisle at Cold Pizza

 

 
(EP, 12" vinyl - Wax Bodega)

4) Primal Crush - Demo MMXXII

 

 

Emo / Alternative shoegaze, hailing from Jakarta. 

Music & Lyrics by Primal Crush 

Recorded at Invasion Record Mixed & Mastered by Praditya Eka Putra Artwork by Primal Crush credits released February 2, 2022 

 

(digital - Primal Crush)

5) Ozzga / Polar Lows

 

 

Two shoegaze band from Philippines... 

released February 2, 2022 

All tracks written and recorded at Pointbee Multimedia. Engineered by Daniel Garcia. Mixed and mastered by Aaron Gonzales.

 

 
(digital,CD split EP - Ozzga / Polar Lows)
 

vinyl:
EPs:
Clear Capsule - Gravity Licker /EP/
Shiny Darkly - HEAVYY /EP/
Softcult - Year Of The Snake /EP/
uniwall - Laugh at /EP/
White Flowers - Remixes /EP/
Coming Right Up - Promo 2022 /EP/
digi single, video:
The Golden Filter - Drive
Orbital - Chime (Eli Brown Remix)
bdrmm - Port (Daniel Avery Remix)
Gabriel Padrevita + Angy Kore - Hanuman
This Love Is Deadly - Do Make Say
Coming Up Roses - Glass Stained Eyes
METZ - Demolition Row
Out Of Love - Pity
Bright Eyes - Falling Out of Love At This Volume
Makeout City - Fadeout
flu flu - Dead Inside (feat. Moonsongs)
Sugar For The Pill - Falling Back To You
Sunflower Tape Machine - Internet Friends
Community Swimming Pool - Another Heart
A Days Wait - Pinky Swear
Affet Robot - Kills You Again
The Violent Youth - Туман
Layuchi Kvity - Метель в Киеве
Letting Up Despite Great Faults - She Spins
Lucy Dacus - Kissing Lessons
Beach Vacation - It Soothes Me
Cinemascope - Ocean
Glacier Veins - Autonomy
Crush - Bckwards 36
Oh Hiroshima - All Things Pass
A Dull Set - This Figure
Animal Collective - We Go Back