March 2018 Roundup

Liam Doyle — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 09:29:05 +0000

Spring is doing it’s best to emerge (with varying degrees of success), which means that March has been and gone. We covered a lot of cool stuff last month, and if you happened to miss anything because of heavy snowfall or just plain bad luck, then we have just the thing. Check out the mix below for a track from every act we covered during March 2018, with the links in the tracklisting taking you to the relevant post. We’ve also started building Spotify versions of these mixes, or as close as we can according to their library.

Tracklisting:

The New Tusk – Tarmac
Lazy Legs – Gloss
Sam Moss – Flowers
Varsity – Must Be Nice
Falcon Jane – Go with the Flow
Desert Liminal – Heavy Heads
Jamison Isaak – Sharalee
Nilein – Central Park
Pendulum Girl – crying in the carwash
Freya – Breath and Chime
Malena Zavala – A Vision That’s Changed
Alex Bayly – Wade in the Water
James Edwyn & The Borrowed Band – Pushing Statues
Tiny Fireflies – Nothing
Boreen – Halley’s Comet
Jenno Snyder – Take Care
Normal State – Summertime
Clare – Loquats
Leathan Milne – Now I Say Goodnight
John Moods – Leap of Love
Guts Club – Mustard Tears
Brianna Kelly – To Behold You
Sympathy Pain – Bless This Ugly Heart
Lung Cycles – Smoke column (Jonathan)
Be Softly – My Hands End With You Fingertips
Hour – Still New To This

Spotify:

Playmoss:

You can find all of our monthly mixes here, and be sure to check back in May for whatever April brought by way of good music.

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Song Premiere: Freya – ‘Breath and Chime’

Jon Doyle — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 11:34:38 +0000

The recording project of Melbourne-based songwriter Tamara Westwood, Freya has been putting out music since 2016, beginning with her debut EP, Attic. Since, Westwood has released a total of three EPs and one full-length, utilising various styles and genres as she explores the possibilities of her sound. Touching upon emo, pop, shoegaze, math rock and ambient, the Freya sound has been expansive and ambitious, and never quite settled into any neat pigeonhole.

However, beneath this fluidity, the work is united by an intimate, personal brand of songwriting that transcends genre, meaning Westwood has carved out a a central identity around which the experimentation can take place. A brand new full-length coming this spring on Fox Food Records, The Fifth feels both a new avenue of exploration and, through a considered commitment to direct, emotional lyrics, a consolidation of the Freya ideals.

Today, we’re delighted to share the lead single, ‘Breath and Chime’. Opening with an ambient hum, the track soon emerges with an insistent urgency, though this is balanced with the nostalgic edge of shoegaze. As such, the track is pitched somewhere between dream pop and emo—a genre Westwood has labelled ‘dreamo’—which manages to pair a keen sense of motion with a relaxed atmosphere. The result is something of a living contradiction, a song capable of both quickening your pace and slowing you down. A challenge or a comfort, morphing to meet your requirements.

The Fifth is going to be released on the 11th May via Fox Food Records and you can pre-order it now via Bandcamp.

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March 2018 Roundup

Song Premiere: Freya – ‘Breath and Chime’