Tracklisting:

1) Lost (Season One) – Camp Cope
2) Johnny – Basement Revolver
3) Can U Hear Me Now? – Porridge Radio
4) All 4s – ARMS
5) If You’re on the Water – The Saxophones
6) In Ribbons – Psychic Shakes
7) a good pet – Real Swell
8) Breadcrumbs – The Perennials
9) Father is a Craftsman – Modern Studies
10) Aligning With the Sun – Dear Tracks
11) Cake Bath – Cloud Cover
12) Postdoc Blues – John K. Samson
13) Room For Love – Wooden Dinosaur
14) Crab Line – Trust Fund
15) 1 – Young Jesus
16) Life’s Rough – Serial Chiller
17) Never Lonely – Space Mountain
18) I Wish I Was Plural – Free Space
19) More Than Science – Sunshine Faces
20) Maya – Competition
21) Fireball – Albosel
22) It Hurts- A Day Without Love
23) That Went Well- Guppy
24) Kids Playing Outside – Almanac Mountain
25) Patience To Undo the Patience – Psalmships

You can check out the previous monthly roundups here, and our various other playlists and mixtapes here. Be sure to pop back throughout September and beyond to see what autumn brings!

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The label describe the album’s sound as, “Sparse instrumentation, droning tape experiments, and ambient passages… coupled with the songwriter’s ability to create eerie, hypnotic moods through sound.” However, as first single ‘Cannibalism’ showed, there’s a certain light present in Cloud Cover’s music, a fragility or tenderness that elevates it beyond exercises in plain, one-tone weirdness. As Disposable America puts it: “The dark intensity of the album is offset by its warmness; Tuite’s voice a ghost texture, guitars delicately picked like tree-branches”.

Today we’re excited to share the second single from the album. ‘Cake Bath’ builds slowly with hollow chimes emerging as if from an empty room, the lonely flow peppered with abrupt sparks of poltergeistic noise, harsh and brash and violent. Tuite’s soft vocals unfold through this, her tranquil cadence disrupted and distracted by both the vibrating silence and vicious commotion. It’s almost as though the song is that of a malfunctioning satellite drifting somewhere deep in outer space. Battered by radiation and cosmic forces, the spectral vocals play like some glitch-ridden radio transmission, a once important message now scrambled by static, repeating itself to the dark.

You can pre-order MIRROR ME now on vinyl or cassette via the Disposable America Bandcamp page, or digitally via the Cloud Cover Bandcamp page.

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