Singles of the Week (34//23)

1) SCHELPER - Waltz / The Grey Skin In Your Eyes

 

News from Surakarta, Indonesia shoegaze band... 

Song and Lyrics written by Ardan Ananda and Bagas Maulidiar 

Produced by Dzul Fawaid Ahmad Mixed & Mastered by Dzul Fawaid Ahmad at Studio Barkah Artwork by Aditya Nugraha 

released August 25, 2023

 

 
(digital - Outta Sight)

2) fawn & cement diver - split

 

 

News from San Antonio, Texas dreampop / shoegaze bands... 

fawn songs recorded by trevor humphreys and olivia jacome cement diver songs recorded by bradley tiffin mixed by trevor humphreys mastered by carey mcgraw released August 8, 2023 / digital platform August 25, 2023

 

 
(split EP - fawn & cement diver)

3) Death Of Heather - Gaze At The Ceiling

 

 

News from Bangkok, Thailand dreampop / shoegaze band... 

released August 24, 2023 

Lyrics : Thanakarn Tangjaiyen Composer : Thanakarn Tangjaiyen Melody : Rungroche Uptampotiwat Arranger : Thanakarn Tangjaiyen, Pakpoom Harthong, Patchanon Dodsamer, Boonpradit Keatchay Producer : Death Of Heather Mix & Master : Rungroche Uptampotiwat Recorded At : Nine Studio, Grand's Studio 

 

(digital, video - Smallroom Bangkok)

4) always other - Scarlet

 

 

 
New single from Richmond, Virginia dreampop / shoegaze project (Jack) 

 released August 25, 2023 

 

(digital - Snow.Drift Productions)

5) lowheaven - Collapse

 

 

News from Toronto, Ontario hardcore / punk band... 

Formed in the spring of 2020, beneath the dark clouds of the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders, lowheaven’s sound oscillates somewhere between post-hardcore, screamo, blackened noise, and metal. 

The Toronto band consists of 

Dan Thomson (vocals/guitar)

Mikey Buchta (vocals/bass) 

Alex Pley (guitar/keys)

Thomson, formerly of Canadian post-hardcore band Sparrows, explains candidly, “We’re not a happy listen, lowheaven is something that has got a lot of weight.” Their debut EP, collapse, is scheduled to be released this fall. collapse explores the sensations of unease and pain through its ever shifting style, with aggressive screams one moment and ominous metal guitar work the next. Sonically, lowheaven is difficult to place. They take just as much influence from bands like Converge and Isis as they do from acts like Deftones. Similar to the latter, lowheaven refuses to be constrained by their heavy image, preferring to experiment with genre and dynamics on each release. collapse, while undoubtedly earnest in its intensity, is underscored by a sound that can best be described as metalcore nostalgia, likely due to their 90s influences. In fact, bassist Mikey Buchta once described the group as “if Radiohead was equal parts black metal and flower... 

more credits released August 25, 2023 

lowheaven is Dan Thomson Mikey Buchta Alex Pley Recorded at The Barbershop Studios in Hopatcong, NJ Jan-Feb 2022 Produced, Recorded, and Mixed by Brett Romnes Assisted by Rob Chiarappa Additional edits and vocals by Hannah Wrocklage Additional tracking by Dan Thomson and Mikey Buchta Mastering by Magnus Lindberg in Stockholm, Sweden Jan 2023 Drums performed by Dante Fotino All songs written by lowheaven All lyrics written by Dan Thomson All songs published by Sonic Death (SOCAN/ASCAP) Publishing administered by Skeletal Lightning Publishing 

 

(EP - Skeletal Lightning)
 

vinyl:
DRAB MAJESTY - An Object In Motion (12")
EPs:
TV Star - TV3 /EP/
Cinnamon Babe - Fatherless /EP/
digi single, video:
Explosions in the Sky - Moving On
The Colibris - Life Couldn't Help Us / Whatever It Takes
Sundozer - Charmed / 100 Lives
Petal Head - NPC
Flourish - Android Dream
Helmet - Holiday
Life In Vacuum - Lately
KEN mode - These Wires
SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Chewing The Scenery
Trny & Žiletky - Chlapec ( A2V Midnight REMIX )
Pale Angels - I'm a Boar
Tube Alloys - Mall Trollers
Flat Worms - Sigalert
Open City - Blitz Kids Stay Sick
Profit Prison - Dreamer
Adored - Blush
Jane Remover - Lips
Jon Morrow - I Don´t Mind
Harper - Flowers
Sea Lemon - Breakdown (feat. Day Wave)
TTSSFU - Yeah yeah I do
Sugar in Wine - Travelling Light
Joao - I Love Mexico (But Nobody Loves Me)
DECEITS - Drowning In An Empty Sea
GVLLOW - It's So Cold
Cochlear Kill - Ruminescent
Possvm - Dance
The Warlocks - Broken Bridges
W. H. Lung - High Pressure Days
We The North - Unpure
stxptxlking - Everything is nothing
OMD - Bauhaus Staircase
Saccades - Nearly Dreaming
Alex Kelman - Rapid 19
M/A/T - Noise
GRAZER - Annihilation
The KVB - Kiss Them For Me
The Chemical Brothers - Skipping Like A Stone (ft. Beck)
TEZA - Propojený (feat. Katarzia) (Meowlau Remix)
Tiga - Hand In Hand (Rebūke Remix)
Teen Daze - Palms
Grouplove - Hello (Big Wild Remix)
caro♡ - 4ever1
Mitski - Star
Novulent - Fallen Angel