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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“[With] Dear Tracks songs, the soundscapes conjure something colourful and bright, wide open expanses through which we can wander free of whatever mental baggage we lugged to the door”

Messore and Co. are back with a new 7″ single, ‘Aligning With The Sun’. Released on New York’s The Native Sound, the track creates a similarly inviting environment, someplace tropical and hot where the sunlight is thick and the water clear and the inhabitants long and sleek and reptilian, lounging on heated rocks to warm their cool blood.

You can pre-order ‘Aligning With The Sun’ now from The Native Sound, including on 7″ lathe cut.

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Tracklisting:

1. Fire – Mal Devisa
2. wild fire/flowers – Trust Fall
3. Home Alone – Max Gardener
4. Your Love – Jeremy Squires
5. Veins – Camp Howard
6. How To Dance – Mount Moriah
7. Good Evening – Adeem the Artist
8. Shallow – Candy
9. Francie Cool – Francie Cool
10. Bad Vibes – Zebrafi
11. Piece of Ivy – Jake Bellissimo
12. Snow Day – Julia Brown
13. Alive – Dear Tracks
14. Ted the Radical Westy – Ravetank
15. ft1 – naps
16. We Have The Perimeter Surrounded – Hallelujah the Hills
17. Bullet in a Broken Gun – Oscar Lush
18. Color Peels – The Wandering Lake
19. Nowhere Nothing – Oceanator
20. Suagr Skull – The Washboard Abs
21. Of Wandering – Littler
22. bicycle – Twelve Gardens
23. Ya Ya Ya – You Won’t
24. Find You – Family Video
25. Jack Campbell (Quick Jammer) – Dingus.
26. Candy – Fish Food
27. It May Very Well Do – 100 Watt Horse
28. Life – Whim
29. Meg – Hovvdy
30. Piano Player – The Hotelier
31. Calvary – Chris Bathgate
32. Postman – Sam Moss

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Soft Dreams, their newest EP, is a shimmering slice of dreamy rock music. Peppered with jangle and drenched in reverb, the songs are sonic landscapes, surfy and dreamy and not quite of this world. Opener ‘Moment of Clarity’ is the aural equivalent of a faded film of vacation snaps, bleached by light or time or both so that all blemishes are removed, while ‘All The Outs Are Free’ is like Nirvana on a tropical cruise, the vocals decidedly low against the soaring instrumentation.

‘Alive’ is fast paced shoegaze with a Britpop flavour, all wrapped within a lush curtain of nostalgic noise, while the title track is similarly sensuous, the wistful vocals suspended in the thick swirl of synths and guitars and percussion. As with all the Dear Tracks songs, the soundscapes conjure something colourful and bright, wide open expanses through which we can wander free of whatever mental baggage we lugged to the door.

Soft Dreams is out on 10” vinyl, cassette and digital download on Furious Hooves (who have violet vinyl) and Track & Field Records (who have mint green vinyl). Also, the band are currently touring the US. Check the dates below to see if you can make it to a show:

Artwork by Ryan McCardle

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