Singles of the Week (19//24)

1) EVNTYD - Warershed

 

News from Austin, Texas indie-rock / dreampop project Julián Berdegué... 

 

released May 10, 2024

 

 
(EP - EVNTYD)

2) Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Swirl

 

 

News from Austin, Texas dreampop / shoegaze band...

 

released May 7, 2024 

 

(digital - Letting Up Despite Great Faults)

3) Alice Creek - Addicted / Dandelion 

 

 

News from Palembang, Indonesia dreampop / shoegaze band... 

 

Produced by Alice Creek 

Guitar Bambang Bimo Prakoso 

Guitar Ferry Muhammad 

Bass Rudbowie 

Vocal Hill Land 

Drum Adhiemaria 

Artcover by Adit Hihi Recorded at Green Room Studio Song 

Mixed & Mastered by Bambang Bimo Prakoso Released by Ear to Ear Tapes 

 

released May 9, 2024

 

 

 
(digital - Alice Creek / Ear to Ear)

4) Miki Berenyi Trio - Vertigo

 
News from London, UK indie-rock / dreampop band... 

 

Miki Berenyi Trio are Miki Berenyi on vocals/guitar (Lush)

Kevin ‘Moose’ McKillop on guitar (Moose)

Oliver Cherer (Gilroy Mere, Aircooled). 

 

The three musicians first worked together during Piroshka’s 2021 tour – Miki and Kevin being founder members, Oliver coming in on bass to replace Mick Conroy (Modern English) who had moved to the US. The gorgeous and compelling “Vertigo” has been part of the band’s live set for over a year and is one of the first songs they wrote together. Berenyi notes, “‘Vertigo’ is about anxiety and the efforts to talk myself down from the precipice – the usual cheerful stuff.” Of the recording process, she adds, “It’s a challenge to not have a drummer, and to use more programming, but the essence of the music is still guitars and melody – as it always has been, particularly in mine and Moose’s bands.” 

 

released May 8, 2024

 

(digital, video - Bella Union)

5) Bodysync - Rock It

 

 

News from electronic / garage / acid-house / rave Ryan Hemsworth (Halifax, Canada) + Giraffage (San Francisco, United States) 

 

From our new album NUTTY, out June 28th on Buddies Inc. Bodysync release their sophomore album NUTTY via their own imprint Buddies Inc. 

 

The record features twelve new belters, rooted in 90’s rave music but embracing all shades of dance music, alongside indie, and pop punk influences. In their own words – “it’s dance music by fans of DIY punk and Y2K pop, with a healthy dose of absurdity” Previous collaborations include Tinashe, Devin Morrison, Dazy, Nite Jewel, and Daniela Andrade, who returns as the only guest feature on NUTTY. Giving more context on the album, Bodysync share: “Keeping things a little nutty has just been like, the mantra. The discourse in electronic music is so enveloping and polarising. We just choose to focus on our legends - Todd Terry, Paul Johnson. There’s so much comedy in their stuff and that has really resonated lately, which shamelessly gets mixed up with the stuff we enjoyed at a young age - Venga Boys, Daft Punk and Mad Magazine.“ A fitting acronym for Bodysync could be “Be Open, Do You, Say You’ll Never Change” – it’s for everyone, all ages, no gatekeeping. It has that optimistic feel good energy that was felt at the free party movement in the UK, and the desert parties in the US decades ago. The universal language of music remains the same – bring the people together, it’s best experienced communally. 

 

releases May 8, 2024

 

(digital, video - Buddies Inc)
 

vinyl:
DAIISTAR - Clear (7")
Stephen's Shore - Neptune (12")
EPs:
Sophie And Me - Future /EP/
OK Buddy - Strays /cassette EP/
Le Brame - Cravings /EP/
Wine Pride - Lost Years /EP/
SUPERNOVA 1006 - How I Need You /EP/
conflict at serenity pools - Lemon Fiction /cassette EP/
digi single, video:
Bleached Cross - Grief's Eternal Wound
cosmicdust - Regret (2nd mix)
Club 8 - Free Falling
CASTLEBEAT - Tom's Place
april june - Starstruck
LARROUX - Still / Bleed the Vein
Ghostlike - Pulling Turnips / Powder Blue
Schande - We're Not Twins
The Shallows - White Sands
Levin Goes Lightly - Headbanging
Girls In Synthesis - Picking Things Out Of The Air
Ducks Ltd. - When You're Outside
Deary - Beauty In All Blue Satin (White Flowers Remix)
Drab Majesty - Photograph
Seventeen Years - Painless
Other Half - Farm Games
Matched - Saving Face
Supercrush - Lost My Head
Rat Palace - Woman of the Year
Thick - Mother
Thou - Unbidden Guest
A Place To Bury Strangers - This Is All For You
Dehd - Dog Days
Annabel - Dog
Previous Love - On a Sunday
Wings of Desire - You'll Never Walk Alone
El Perro del Mar - I Got You Babe