Singles of the Week (41//22)

1) Varlots - Nuchal

 

 New single from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania blackgaze indie-rock band... 

Sometime in 2020, there was a point where I was revisiting hospital records involving my nuchal birth before being adopted and becoming an American citizen. Most nuchal births, where an infant is strangulated by the umbilical cord, are harmless. The first few months of my life were spent in a hospital as this was the one out of ten chances it was harmful to an infant. At the time of revisiting this event as an adult, I suffered a mental break from reality where I was hallucinating people were following me in order to hang me with a noose. Felt like a strange way to come back to these events in a way that was just as unpleasant as the first. The spoken word element was a recollection of a dream I had the preceding year. - Stephen Edwards 

released October 12, 2022 

Engineered/Mixed by Scot Moriarty at Backroom Studios in Rockaway, NJ Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music Art Design by Sarah Zarina Hakani Photography by Ryan Treppedi

 

 
(digital - Urlo)

2) Avalyn - Distant Days

 

 

 New single from Liverpool, UK shoegaze, dreampop band... Avalyn are a new Liverpool-based quintet inspired by the 90s wall of sound used by my bloody valentine and the melodies of 80s Post-Punk acts such as The Cure. 

Andy Power 

Ben Deegan 

Grace Woolston 

Paddy Murphy 

Max Martin 

Released on: 2022-10-14 

 

(digital - Avalyn)

3) MSPAINT - Acid

 

 

 News from Hattiesburg, Mississippi post-punk band... 

released October 11, 2022 

Co-produced by Ian Shelton & Taylor Young @ The Pit Recording Studio "Acid" Single Artwork by Brock Stephens Lyrics by Deedee All music by MSPAINT Convulse  Records, 2022

 

 

 
(digital - Convulse)

4) Priestgate - Some Things Never Change

 

 

 News from Driffield, UK indie-rock band... 

Change has been a theme through our tracks and the more I thought about that the more I understood that not everything does. This song is the opposite of our previous work in that sense, it’s quite literal, some things never change. 

credits released October 11, 2022 Written and performed by Rob Schofield, Bridie Stagg, Kai Overton, Connor Bingham and Isaac Ellis. 

Produced by Larry Hibbitt. Mixed by Caesar Edmunds. Mastered by Jason Mitchell at LOUD Mastering.

 

 

 
(video, digital - Lucky Number Music Limited)

5) Metronomy & Katy J Pearson - Love Factory

New video from UK alternative pop band + Bristolian singer-songwriter Katy J Pearson 

Album Small World (Special Edition out 18/11/2022)

 

(digital, video - Because Music Ltd.)
 

vinyl:
Fazerdaze - Break! (12")
Double Virgo - Eros in the Bunker (12")
EPs:
Gates - Gates Here and Now (Remixes) /EP/
The Sweetest Touch - Perfect Sky /EP/
Tolose - My Mind Accepting /EP/
Static - Fading Away /EP/
Private Lives - Private Lives /cassette EP/
digi single, video:
Weeping Icon - Pigs, Shit & Trash
Keep Shelly in Athens - I Don't Want Your Romance (Feat. Sugar For The Pill)
Fawn - Down
Overly - Fall
Dream Room - Endless Sea
always other - kill me, lisa
GRMLN - Beauty
Day of Nova - Between us
Soft Kill - The Line (feat. Ruth Radelet)
Gold Panda - The Dream
Letargik - Garuda
Altered Images - Happy Birthday (Cuban Version)
Ariel Pink - Chupacabra (feat. VAMPIROS & Ariel Pink's Dark Side)
Fuckwolf - Flamin' Hot Cheetos
Riot City Radio - On the Streets
Psychic Graveyard - Haunted By Your Bloodline
Envy - Seimei
Skuliak Maniak - War, Pleasure, Byz
Peter Thomas Sound Orchester - Schwarzwaldfahrt / Oktoberfest Polka