Singles of the Week (40//23)

1) SWIIMS - All I Die For

 

News from Toronto, Ontario indie-rock / shoegaze band... 

 

From "Into The Blue Night" LP - Release date: November 10, 2023 

 

SWiiMS is a 4 piece rock outfit from Toronto, Canada After a few failed attempts to get the project off the ground, guitarist Colin Thompson chanced upon singer/guitarist Mai Diaz Langou. Her elegant poetry and languid vocals meshed perfectly with his jangly guitar pop and love of 60's harmony. Bassist Cian O'Ruanaidh auditioned shortly after and was the perfect fit.

 

(digital, video - Mint 400)

2) Enola Gay - Casement

 

 

News from Belfast, UK noise-punk / hip-hop / indie-rock / shoegaze band... 

 

Belfast-based Irish noise-punk 4-piece formed in late 2019. Offering venomous hip-hop-inspired vocals that are as uncompromising as the guitars are unforgiving, layered on a rhythm section that draws as much from left-field electronica and techno as it does from post-punk heroes of the late 70s. 

Joe McVeigh (guitar) 

Fionn Reilly (vocals) 

Adam Cooper (bass) 

Stevie Curtis (drums) 

 

Release date: October 04, 2023 

 

(EP - Modern Sky)

3) hyperlilly - White Noise

 

 

 
News from Cologne, Germany dreampop / shoegaze band... 

 

released october 4th 

 

(EP - Supervillian)

4) deary - Sleepsong

 

News from London, UK dreampop / shoegaze duo... 

EP, CD, 12" vinyl out 17 Nov '23 

The eponymous debut EP by London-based dreampop duo deary on Sonic Cathedral. 

The six-track release is available on frosted clear 12” vinyl, plus a CD with five additional bonus tracks and remixes. Their debut single ‘Fairground’, which came out at the end of January, was an instant classic. A mix of shoegaze beauty and trip-hop beats, it was amazing to see people falling in love with it in real time as it gained airplay around the world, a remix by Saint Etienne and hit number one on the Official Charts’ vinyl singles chart. The EP includes the follow-up, the deliciously dark ‘Beauty In All Blue Satin’, and new single ‘Sleepsong’, plus three other tracks, and follows their support slot with Slowdive at the Troxy in London. 

Written and performed by deary Produced and mixed by Ben Easton Vocal engineering and additional production by Dom Freeman Mastered By Simon Scott at SPS Mastering Design by Stuart Jones and Marc Jones Photography by Juno Jou ℗ and © 2023 

deary under exclusive licence to Sonic Cathedral 

released October 5, 2023

(digital - Sonic Cathedral)

5) Proud Scout - Soleil Et Lune 

 

 

 
News from dreampop solo project based out of Nashville, TN. 

 

Release date: October 01, 2023

 

 

 
(digital - Scratch Cat Studios)
 

vinyl:
She's In Parties - End Scene (12")
EPs:
Trauma Ray / Downward - split /EP/
Daydream Twins - Bombinate /EP/
LYKHO - НЕВПИННЕ ВІДЧУТТЯ /EP/
MOGY - numb. /EP/
Drift - Candyland /EP/
Georgia Gets By - Fish Bird Baby Boy /EP/
Haszh - Sit Tied And Sees /EP/
Service Delay - February /EP/
Waving Blue - August is the worst month of the year /EP/
The Semipalatinsk - Ontario /EP/
digi single, video:
ghost days - Heart Apart
Seven Hour Days - Your Lies
Hey Calamity - Urbania
House of Harm - Roseglass
Waves Crashing - Rose Hue
Lunar Isles - Arrival
Psychic Shakes - Fifteen Forever
Ben Quad - Hand Signals
Truth Club - Siphon
Arcave - Black Tides​/​Black Horse
bed bug guru - Tightrope
Prize Horse - Your Time
Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Cherry Splits
Lunar Lock - Dantean Beauty
Minnows - Two Truths
néomí - Your Girl
Wild Nothing - Dial Tone
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Veruschka
Hazel English - There She Goes
Ronnie Stone - The Diamond
ALCATUNE - Tamed (ft. Marisa da Anuncia​ç​ã​o)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Theia / The Silver Cord / Set
New Forms - Pull Me Out
Sleater-Kinney - Hell
M. Ward - engine 5 (feat. First Aid Kit)
dear sora rae... - The Glacier Road Trip