Tracklisting:

1. Red Coat – Adeline Hotel (Interview)
   2. S.O.B. – Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
   3. Daughter of the Sea – House of Wolves (Interview)
   4. Monarchy – Table People
   5. Ruin – Doomking
   6. Lonely Boy – Titus Andronicus
   7. New York Hardcore – talons’
   8. Roar of Nothingness – Sun Organ
   9. Slow Dark Water – Furnsss
   10. You Are Arrived (But You’ve Been Cheated) – The Spirit of the Beehive
   11. It Was Gone – Orchid Mantis
   12. Big Sis – SALES
   13. No Comprende – Low
   14. The Washing Machine – SPORTS
   15. Shark? – Shark? (Everything Is Teeth by Evie Wyld and Joe Sumner)
   16. Christmas in Milwaukee – Advance Base
   17. Only Friend – Valley Maker
   18. My Track ’92 – Pet Cemetery
   19. Dusk; Falling Asleep, Know That You Are Loved – Sabbatical Wilderness
   20. Theremin Demonstration – Leon Theremin (Us Conductors by Sean Michaels)
   21. The Lemon’s Cousin – Boy Scouts
   22. Audrey Horne – Teen Love
   23. Mia – Spencer Radcliffe
   24. Return To The Moon – EL VY
   25. Bug – Alex G
   26. Wild Hearts – Kodiak Deathbeds
   27. Waves – Abby Gundersen
   28. UR = UO – No Touching
   29. Sparrow & Stone – Eva Foote
   30. What Can Be Taken – ÒOR

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Frontman Matt Berninger has teamed up with Brent Knopf of Menomena and Ramona Falls to form EL VY (apparently pronounced “el vie”, rhymes with “hell pie”). The duo plan to release their début album Return To The Moon on 4AD on the 30th of October.

The only song currently available is the title track, or, to give its snappy full name ‘Return To The Moon (Political Song For Didi Bloome To Sing, With Crescendo)’. Berninger’s vocals are as distinctive as ever, but the influence of Knopf sees the sound take a far poppier path than anything The National have put out. The song is strange and, like most of Berninger’s writing, uses specific imagery to create a sense of vague, imprecise meaning.

“Scratched a ticket with the leg of a cricket,
and I got triple Jesus.
Cashed it in for a siamese twin
at the family firing range.

Went to bed woke up in another man’s head
Nobody noticed.
I’m so excited the senators a fighter,
don’t tell me nothing’s changed.
Return to the moon, I’m dying.
Return to the moon, please.”

It’s more than enough to get us interested. You can pre-order the album now via 4AD.

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