Singles of the Week (44//24)

1) deary - Aurelia

 

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

Written and performed by Ben Easton & Rebecca 'Dottie' Cockram Produced by deary & Iggy B Co-production on ‘Aurelia’ by Alex Greaves & Matt Peel at The Nave Mixed by Iggy B Mastered by Simon Scott at SPS Mastering Drums & percussion on ‘Aurelia’ by Sammy Lynne, ‘Selene’, ‘The Drift’ and ‘Dream Of Me’ by Simon Scott Recorded between August 2023 – July 2024 at 4AD Studios, London; Bella Union Studios, Brighton; The Nave, Leeds; various London bedrooms Designed by Stuart Jones & Marc Jones Front cover photograph by Jacob McGarry Background photograph by Grace Easton 

 

releases November 1, 2024 

 

(EP, 12" vinyl - Sonic Cathedral)

2) Airiel - Hide & Seek

 

News from Chicago, Illinois shoegaze / electronic / indie-rock duo... 

 

"Hide & Seek" explores the fleeting nature of young love, chasing moments of light and joy before they slip away. Frontman Jeremy Wrenn’s hazy, ethereal vocals soar above the swirling instrumentation, evoking a sense of longing, hope, and nostalgia. The band's signature mix of lush textures takes on new life here, as the song builds to an unexpected crescendo — a powerful taiko drum rhythm layered with the subtle elegance of a grand piano. This cinematic finale underscores the epic studio production that Airiel has crafted. Recorded and produced by Adam Stilson and Andrew Marrah at Palisade Studios in Chicago, IL. 

Performed by: Andrew Marrah & Jeremy Wrenn 

Lyrics by: Jeremy Wrenn 

Composition by: Andrew Marrah & Jeremy Wrenn 

Mixed/Mastered by Adam Stilson at Decade Music Studios. 

 

released October 29, 2024 

 

 
(digital - Feeltrip)

3) Prism Shores - Holding Pattern

 

 

News from Montreal, Québec indie-rock / shoegaze band... 

 

Video for "Holding Pattern", the lead single from Prism Shores new album "Out From Underneath" out January 17, 2025 on Meritorio Records. 

 

Prism Shores are Montreal janglers with one foot planted in ramshackle C86-indebted indie pop and the other in the shimmer of early English shoegaze. Their sound is reminiscent of perennial genre reference points (Sarah, Creation, Flying Nun) while leaving its own idiosyncratic stamp. 

 

Jack MacKenzie - guitars, bass, vocals, synths. 

Ben Goss - bass, guitars, vocals, synths. 

Luke Pound - drums, percussion, drum programming, guitars, vocals. 

Finn Dalbeth - guitars, vocals. 

 

single releases October 30, 2024 

 

 

(digital, video - Meritorio)

4) No Drama - Papershop / A City Within

 

 

News from Toulouse, France indie / punk band... 

 

Many thanks to all the record labels involved: Anything Bagel (US), Araki Records (FR), Brainwasher Records (DE), Bus Stop Press (FR), Hidden Bay Records (FR), Seitan's Hell Bike Punks (FR/ES), Stonehenge Records (FR), Wood of Heart (JP). 

 

No Drama is an indie/punk quartet from Toulouse, France, formed in 2022. After a year spent playing local shows (opening for bands such as Come, Spite House and Hotline TNT), the band released an eponymous debut EP on Nov 23 and subsequently toured in France and Spain. Their new release is due Nov 1st, and includes ‘Papershop’, a pop punk hit which deals with working in a stationery retail company full of annoying customers, and ‘A City Within’, a more contemplative track which imagines parallels between an old cemetery in Toulouse and housing in modern cities. 

 

releases November 1, 2024 

 

(digital, 7" vinyl - Hidden Bay)

5) Kassie Krut - Racing Man

 

 

News from New York experimental electronic trio... 

 

On Kassie Krut’s self-produced, self-titled debut EP, their approach is deceptively simple. With a constrained palette and a penchant for repetition, they find a world of opposing textures and timbres: electric and acoustic, synthetic and organic, smooth and frictive, terrestrial and celestial. Their scratch-made sounds melodize the hard-edged noise of daily life—car alarms, notification chimes, dial tones, feedback—setting it against stutter-step high hats, pots-and-pans percussion, and tensile bass tones that thrash around in the head like a rubber ball. Written and Produced by Kassie Krut Mixed By Matt Anderegg Mixing Additions by Andy Tyler Clarke Mastered by Ryan Schwabe Artwork and layout by Nicola Tirabasso 

 

EP releases December 6, 2024 

 

single  releases Ocrober  29, 2024

 

(digital, video - Fire Talk)
 

vinyl:
Leftfield - Full Way Round (Ewan McVicar Remix) (12")
EPs:
dottie - Midheaven /EP/
Killmilky - If You Kill Milky Me /cassette EP/
Maze Hunters - Parts /cassette EP/
Monochromatic Visions - The World Went Wrong /EP/
Memory Strings - Static /EP/
Hot Water Music / Quicksand - split /EP/
digi single, video:
WOAH - Turn Away
Wisp - I Remember How Your Hands Felt on Mine
něco něco - Všechno se rozpadá
Blueboy - Deux
Midi Memory - Take the Life Out of Me
NRTHRN - Low
Unreqvited - The Starforge
Beach Vacation - Slowly
Coda Glow - Pins & Needles
Gloomhead - Possessor
Gouge Away - Newtau
Gus Baldwin & The Sketch - [She's Gone] Arigato
Shady Baby - Held In
The Horrors - Trial By Fire
We Were Blank - Summer Bones
Cherry Pick - doe-eyed
Other-ed - Abstract Heroes
Still Corners - The Creeps
Dummy - Dip In The Lake
Tycho - Devices
Grmln - Alpha II
Cloakroom - Unbelonging
Wishy - Planet Popstar
The Virginmarys - When The Lights Go Down
Tears For Fears - Say Goodbye To Mum & Dad
Mogwai - Lion Rumpus
MGNA Crrrta - American girls
Magdalena Bay - Image
Curses - Helium (Feat. Marie Davidson)