Singles of the Week (17//25)

1) Kate Stein & Lord Fascinator - Primary

 

News from New York electronic / indie-dance duo... 

Clubland is filled with duos, sometimes they grew up sharing bunk beds, sometimes they met on a dancefloor, or sometimes -as with Lord Fascinator & Kate Stein- they met on a tropical island after one had commissioned the other to create several giant monsters for a music video. Fast forward through ten years of costumes, chemicals, religious art projects and "Mad Max yoga retreats", they have finally cemented their relationship in the studio with their Primary EP, 4 tracks of psychedelic synth-pop, cowboy disco and cosmically inclined iridescent electronica. Living in LA in 2022, where they found themselves sharing a crumbling castle turret, the EP started to take shape when Kate - the aforementioned monster maker and now up & coming DJ and producer - shared her latest demos with Lord Fascinator. Aided and abetted by both the musical ghosts of Laurel Canyon and a regular supply of caffeine the pair began to craft these demos into an EP that segues from sublime synth pop odes to chemical love and intoxicating attraction through to country disco without missing a beat. 

 

The EP kicks off with Chemistry, a song whose spacey synth arpeggios wrap themselves around trippy house beats and a bass... 

 

releases April 25, 2025

 

 

 

 
(EP - Eskimo)

2) The Dreamtoday - Crystal Sky

 

 

News from Massachusetts indie-rock / shoegaze band... 

 

Filmed & Directed by Richard Johnson Edited by Nicky Russo Finalized by Richard Johnson Engineered and written by Nicky Russo & Tim Muzzy at Owl Sound Studios in Woburn Massachusetts Co-Engineered by Alex Allinson at The Bridge Sound & Stage in Cambridge Massachusetts Mixed by Austin Reinholz & Nicky Russo Mastered by Adam Cichocki Artwork by Richard Johnson "We Won't Survive the Comet" 2025 

 

The Dreamtoday is: 

Violet Nowak Nicky Russo Tim Muzzy Ricky Metters Matt Como Doug DeMars 

 

released April 22, 2025 

 

 

 

(digital, video - The Dreamtoday)

3) Luster - Sunday / Close My Eyes 

 

News from Los Angeles, California indie-rock / shoegaze band... 

 

Additional vocals by Loren Rivera Written and produced by Luster Mixed and mastered by Nick Bassett   

 

released April 22, 2025

 

 

 

(digital - Funeral Party)

4) Keep - Hurt a Fly

 

 

News from indie-rock / shoegaze Virginia band... 

 

Directed and Edited by Justin Pietropaoli 

 

New album Almost Static out May 30, 2025 

 

Keep is Levi, Nick, Wes, Will 

 

Single released April 23, 2025 

 

 

 

(digital, video - Honeysuckle Sound)

5) A Deeper Heaven - High

 

 

 
News from Salt Lake City, Utah dreampop / shoegaze Marc Wheeler... 

 

Recorded by Marc Wheeler at Peak Effect Productions (Utah, U.S.A.) 

 

And by Casper Iskov at Factory Sound Recordings (Denmark). 

 

Artwork by Songs And  The Spirits 

 

releases April 25, 2025

 

 

 

 
(EP - Peak Effect Productions)
 

vinyl:
Wishy - Planet Popstar (12")
EPs:
Danesa - Farewell Now /EP/
dustdust - Put Your Soul into It /EP/
Drypoint - Drypoint /EP/
Monda - Everything You Wanted /EP/
Super Vehicle - Who You Wish You Were /EP/
†rite - Hazy Dreams /EP/
digi single, video:
The Cure - Alone [Four Tet Remix]
The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition (ARTBAT Remix)
Sugar For The Pill - LUV
Not For Tears - Be Your Light
Dream, Ivory - Solar Eclipse
Subsonic Eye - Aku Cemas
Velvet - Spring
Murmure - Un mauvais présage
Our Worlds Collide - All the Light we Shall Never See
she's green - Figurines
Legss - Gloss
Softcult - Pill To Swallow
DREAM POP - To See You
Dating - Your New Bones
Bleach Lab - Feel Something
Bella Eterna - Mysterious Beauty
tailspun - Bloom in Two
Korine - Blue Star
Kim Lunner - With You
Lunar Isles - Always Dusk
The Blue Herons - Turned to Stone
Soot Sprite - Vicious Cycles
Arcade Fire - Pink Elephant
Poro - Standing In The Fire
Palinopsia - I Belong With you
Preoccupations - Ill At Ease
Planning For Burial - You Think
Pelican - Pining For Ever
Blessings - Strings of Red
Full Of Hell - Knight's Oath
Hongza - Out Of Place
Stay12 - Recept Na Ramen