Tracklisting:

Dear Nora – White Fur
Lawn – 2000 Boy
Pearl Crush – True Blue
Dead Painters – Fool On Fire
Slowcoaches – Found Down
Two Meters – Left Behind
Kerem Atalay – Winter 2
Pat Moon – I Belong
Blood Hype – Not Too Good
Talons’ – Driving Home From Shows
The Nova Darlings – I Like Crashing My Car (Into Yours)
Dead Sullivan – Swallow
Onlyness – Comfortable
Of the Valley – Italy
Nice Knees – Backout
Suburban Pets – Candy
Minor Moon – It’s Okay
Caroline Lazar – Georgia
Heatwarmer – American Dog
Jacob Furr – Life Comes At You Fast
Deux Trois – Dave
Grace Turner – Dead or Alive
Britton Patrick Morgan – Southern Drawl

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Boreen are back with a brand new standalone single, ‘Myers-Briggs’. Serving as something of a stepping stone between previous album Friends and new material set to be unveiled later in the year, the song continues the search for meaning and direction within our confusing contemporary times. More specifically, the post-collegiate stasis faced by many young people, where the main source of purpose and identity is stripped away, as well as anything by way of structure and instruction. As Sullivan explains: “I wrote this song after I graduated from college and had no idea what I was doing, who I was, or what I wanted.”

All revenue from the single will go to Occupy ICE Portland, a people-led occupation of the area surrounding the ICE offices and facilities in Portland, Oregon in protest against the US government’s draconian immigration policy. How often do you get to support such valuable and worthwhile causes while grabbing yourself some new music?

We’re delighted to be able to share the track a day early, but encourage you strongly to pay whatever you can spare once the song is released.

‘Myles-Briggs’ is out on the 28th June via Good Cheers Records and you can download it from the Boreen Bandcamp page.

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Tracklisting:

The New Tusk – Tarmac
Lazy Legs – Gloss
Sam Moss – Flowers
Varsity – Must Be Nice
Falcon Jane – Go with the Flow
Desert Liminal – Heavy Heads
Jamison Isaak – Sharalee
Nilein – Central Park
Pendulum Girl – crying in the carwash
Freya – Breath and Chime
Malena Zavala – A Vision That’s Changed
Alex Bayly – Wade in the Water
James Edwyn & The Borrowed Band – Pushing Statues
Tiny Fireflies – Nothing
Boreen – Halley’s Comet
Jenno Snyder – Take Care
Normal State – Summertime
Clare – Loquats
Leathan Milne – Now I Say Goodnight
John Moods – Leap of Love
Guts Club – Mustard Tears
Brianna Kelly – To Behold You
Sympathy Pain – Bless This Ugly Heart
Lung Cycles – Smoke column (Jonathan)
Be Softly – My Hands End With You Fingertips
Hour – Still New To This

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You can find all of our monthly mixes here, and be sure to check back in May for whatever April brought by way of good music.

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After the success of Friends, the folks at Good Cheer have decided to look back into the Boreen catalogue and re-release their first album, Cartoons. The aesthetic of this record is altogether rougher, though the lo-fi sound pushes the same qualities of earnestness and connection, the songs inspired by the experiences of a young loved one mourning the loss of a close friend. In order to cope, they had turned to Disney movies, and O’Sullivan explores the idea of escapism through a mixture of live/toy instruments and field recordings.

The result is somewhere between Mt. Eerie and Alex G, the mundane captured in stark detail and woven into something altogether more fantastical. From driving a car to take a walk to the Youtube-induced miss of Halley’s Comet, O’Sullivan’s writing is rooted in the banalities of every day, banalities which either require escape or become escape tactics themselves, once viable distractions transmogrified into a prison of their own making. As such, despite the dreamy sound and sincerity of the emotions, a sense of dissatisfaction permeates the record, an itch that no cartoon or weed or sugary snack can quite scratch. And through this, Boreen avoid any accusations of being silly or twee, the childlike naivety not some affected front but rather a genuine attempt to preserve some sense of joy in a world where loss is all around.

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