Real Life Buildings – Racing the Sun
Nice Apple – Are You Still There?
V.V. Lightbody – Babe, Honestly
Nico Hedley – Late Bloomer
Gracie Gray – Morphine
Spencer Radcliffe & Everyone Else – Bloodletting
Pleasure Systems – Heirloom
Ana Roxanne – Slowness
Kin Hana – Fog
Rainwater – Pink Flowers
Christelle Bofale – U Ouchea
Prudence – Smile & Nod
Operators – Faithless
Belaver – Driver
Mr Husband – Friends
Rose Hotel – Running Behind
Jeremy Squires – Somersault
Bad Books – Lake House
Yammerer – Poisonous Reptilian Colleague’s & Co
Britt – Trial Period
Wild Yawp – Femme Girl
Forest Management – Blue Leaves
Robert Stillman – Ritual
Everyone is Dirty – Hit-Girl
Merin – Coral Island
Lavender Bones – Over Again
Luke De-Sciscio – R.O.B.Y.N.
Anna Wiebe – Fortune
Young Elk – Gossip Magazines
Emma Frank – I Thought
Eamon McGrath – GUTS
Jacob Faurholt – The Dark Isn’t Right

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Released via Whited Sepulchre, Passageways sees Daniel work in his most personal manner yet. Inspired by the secluded apartment complex his parents managed in Cleveland, the album is one of stillness and hidden spaces, the quietness just a front behind which life both familiar and strange unfolds. Therefore, while built from solitudinous echoes, the record is permeated by an ever-present fondness that is anything but alone. “This is my folk record in a way,” Daniel explains. “It is not musically obvious, but more in terms of how I approached the writing: A sense of sentimentality about home, about a place and time.”

Passageways could be said to refer to the corridors of the apartment complex, its songs a slow walk along their labyrinthine course. The silence there is tangible, a sound unto itself, yet each closed door represents not restriction but possibility. The sound maps such an idea through suggestion, an indirect recreation of Daniel’s own experiences. The album is one of hindsight, something of a retracing, Daniel charting his current position right back to a childhood spent imagining life behind closed doors. His role as an artist is not to show us the potentialities that exist, but rather remind us that they do. For we all have our own hallways to wander, our own homes to return to.

Passageways is out on now via Whited Sepulchre and you can get it from Bandcamp.

Photo by Jared Britton

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