Singles of the Week (09//25)

1) Opera - Forget

 

News from Boston, Massachusetts indie-rock / shoegaze / dreampop band... 

All songs written and performed by Opera 

(Craig Ronan, Liudmila Garmashova, Eren Guler) 

Produced by William Evans Art by Aedan Clark 

 

releases February 28, 2025 

 

 

(EP - Broken Palace)

2) Tunic - A Harmony of Loss Has Been Sung 

 

 

News from Winnipeg, Manitoba noise-rock / post-punk band... 

 

A Harmony of Loss Has Been Sung is a document of pure pain. 

The six songs that span Tunic's fourth record are intense, uncomfortable and bleak as hell. The midwest duo move away from traditional songwriting and find themselves creating guttural, cathartic outpourings of tortured rage that combine elements of post rock, skramz and of course, noise rock. Tunic has always been a vessel for dealing with pain. However, the band's latest effort chronicles not just frontman David Schellenberg's pain, but his wife's too; as the album centres around the miscarriage that the couple experienced in early 2023. Throughout the album Schellenberg tells the story of heartbreak between depraved screams of lunacy and defeated washed-out monotone that perfectly move in tandem with the heaviest compositions the band has ever crafted. 

A Harmony of Loss Has Been Sung is a record that doesn't want you to catch on; there's not a chorus on the whole thing for you to even do so; but that doesn't mean it's not listenable, it's quite the opposite even. It will engulf you for its full 33 minutes, drag you under into its world of brutal defeat; and have you bartering for solace that will never come. 

 

Tunic on this record is: David Schellenberg * Tomas Ingham * Dan Unger *

 

releases February 28, 2025

 

 

 

 
(EP, minialbum, 12" vinyl - Midwest Debris)

3) Deafheaven - Heathen

 

 

News from San Francisco post-rock / blackgaze band... 

 

A Muted Widows production for Deafheaven Produced and Directed by Muted Widows Michael E Linn — Nedda Afsari — Michael Zumaya 

 

Album "Lonely People With Power" releases March 28, 2025 

 

Single releases February 25, 2025 

 

 

(digital, video - Roadrunner)

4) cosmicdust - Love Is a Melody

 

 

 
News from Japan dreampop / shoegaze project... 

 

Japan shoegaze unit "cosmicdust" formed in 2002 and the activity resumed from 2021. 

 

Album "Melancholy" released January 14, 2025 

 

Single released February 28, 2025 

 

 

(digital - UndePanDante)

5) Cris Piz - Forever Eighteen (80'S)

 

 

 
News from Italy synthwave / dreampop project (Fabio Scricciolo). 

 

video inspired by the film: THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS

 

released February 28, 2025 

 

(digital, video - Ibiza Night / Smilax Publishing)
 

vinyl:
EPs:
Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Forgotten, Vol.2 /EP/
Sadie - For Youth, For Sparks, Forever /EP/
Fright Years - Still Life /EP/
digi single, video:
Darksoft - Day By Day
Blankenberge - Escape
Sungaze - House on the Hill
Soot Sprite - All My Friends Are Depressed
Spring Winds - Kindred Soul
Sunken - Sonic Angel
Islands - Aftermath
YvngHomieRyan - Stay
Heavy Sleeper - Astral
Go with Strangers - Ride
Puremoon - In My Head / Her
Womb - Only You
Winter Gardens - Anthropocene
Billy Idol - Still Dancing
The Raveonettes - Blackest
Lambrini Girls - No Homo
To Be Gentle - Spright Blue
Momma - Bottle Blonde
Miki Berenyi Trio - Big I Am
Fluung - Puzzle Piece
Anything Box - Living In Oblivion (The Extended Apocalypse)
Ruby Moon - Slow Burn
Lunar Isles - Echo Peak
i s tebou - Kolik je na světě
něco něco - Do tmy
Dalphon - Syrinx
Daydreamer - Watching (Extended Mix)
Amazingblaze - Blessings