Black Sea Dahu – Thaw
Will Henriksen – Nothing Left Behind
Dehd – Letter
Hovvdy – Ruin (my ride)
Maya Lucia – preteen
They Are Gutting A Body of Water – french
Jason Calhoun – moving
Dilary Huff – Overused Sayings
Two Meters – The Nightmare
Dead Painters – Marigold
The Deer – Confetti To The Hurricane
Pastel – Moon Landing
Hit Like A Girl – No More Dysphoria
Basement Revolver – Master’s Degree
Bodies on the Beach – Ghost
Highnoon – Lens
Distant Reader – Marie
Drakes Island – 4 Days
Wet Dream – Worried
Best Mann – Must Be Wrong
The Funs – Trains Across The Sea
Ganser – Buio
Nothings – Favorite Shirt
Corinne Sharlet – Hail Mary
ahem – Halloween
Max and the Martians – Please Hold On
A.S. Wilson – Taken Apart
Béret – Book of Hera
Joel Jerome – There’s Nothing Here To Bother You Anymore
Carpet City – Little Longer
Hannah Cranton – Kite
Zachary Lucky – Didn’t Know That You’d Come Along
Wintersleep – Fading Out
Coral – find me wrong
Boo Baby – “Jazz?”
Margaux – Palm

Check out our previous Monthly Roundup playlists, and be sure to read our Reviews and Previews throughout the month.

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Only it’s not so much a Venn diagram as a continuum between two poles, and their debut release, Only Passing Through, pitches songs at various positions along the scale. The opening title track emerges from the silence with a portentous weight, the stirring guitar eventually swelling into a vivid sound, if not quite the post-rock wall-of-noise that might be expected. ‘4 Days’ owes a little more to folk, the drums and guitar keeping a fire burning below Tanner’s vocals, and rather than consuming them in some final conflagration inside the track maintains a brooding tone.

After ‘The Hollow’, which leans as far as Drakes Island are willing into the mainstream folk-rock end of the spectrum, ‘Move So Still’ mixes ambient patience with a psychedelic groove. But it is on closer ‘Embers’ that the band truly lean into their weighty sound, expanding out past ten minutes with a desolate heaviness. The audience might be bigger for the accessible, emotional immediacy of folk rock, but that Tanner and co. are willing to embrace something slower and deeper is a testament to their ambition, and marks them as a band to watch moving forward.

Only Passing Through is out now and you can get it from the Drakes Island Bandcamp page.

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