Doug MacNearney – Rambling Songs

(RIYL: folk, Canada, Tyler Butler, Zachary Lucky, heartfelt lyrics)

Dutch Barn – About Time

(RIYL: indie pop, fuzz, reverb, Teenage Fanclub)

Eerie Summer – S/T

(RIYL: dream pop, Best Coast, Pains of Being Pure At Heart)

Elvis Depressedly – Holo Pleasures

(RIYL: fuzzy pop, melancholy, Coma Cinema)

Eric & Magill – Two Travelers

(RIYL – indie pop, dream pop, long distance relationships)

The Everywheres – Slow Friends

(RIYL: Garage rock, psychedelic, fuzz)

Fiesta Minor – Time Spent Breathing

(RIYL: hardcore, screamo, post rock)

Filbert – Chronographic

(Riyl: indie rock, hip-hop, Why?)

Flow My Tears – I

(RIYL: indie pop, The Smiths, Cygnets)

The Flying Blackbyrds – No. 0

(RIYL: 60s rock, bar brawls, Mike Tod)

Fog Lake – Holy Cross

(RIYL: experimental, bedroom pop, slowcore, melancholy)

Fthrsn – Middle School Swag

(RIYL: glitch hop, dream pop, chillwave, GRL MTN)

Gatsby’s Estate – Intro/Extra

(RIYL: chillwave, synths, indie pop, the lonely life of Jay Gatsby)

Gingerlys – Summer Cramps

(RIYL: lo-fi, dream pop, indie rock)

Glass Vaults – Bright EP

(RIYL – ambient, dream pop, Youth Lagoon)

Goldeen – Off Duty Detective

(RIYL: chillwave, synths, John Maus)

Greatest Month – Herbs

(RIYL: washed out electronics, field recordings, chillwave)

Hand Drawn Dracula – Milkin’ It

(RIYL: grunge, indie rock, Nirvana, Toronto)

HAPPY TRENDY – For Listening Trial

(RIYL: lo-fi instrumentals, hypnagogic electronics, anxiety and chill)

Hog Bucket – Old Mustard

(RIYL: dirty bar-room blues, country, classic rock, drunken lovin’)

Hozier – Take Me To Church

(RIYL: radio-friendly indie, piano, Elton John)

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We’ve featured Glass Vaults before, briefly mentioning their single Crystallise here and including them in our best free releases of 2011 here. It is, therefore, fair to say, that we rather like them. Fortunately for us, they’ve put out another EP recently.

As expected, Bright EP is a beautiful conglomeration of guitar, synth and vocals, with each taking it in turns to percolate through the ambient haze to steal your attention for a brief, glittering moment.

Glass Vaults have always followed a name your own price policy and Bright EP is no different, so pick it up for however much you deem fair on the Glass Vaults Bandcamp page.

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Eric & Magill – All Those I Know (Actually released 31st Dec 2010. Forgive me).

(RIYL: “Folktronica”, Crescendos, Dirty Projectors)

The Fierce & The Dead – If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe

(RIYL = Post-Rock, Progressive)

First Nations – Black Beach

(RIYL = Folk Rock, Meursault)

Flashing Red Lights – Faster Horses

(RIYL = Indie Pop, Electronic)

Foxes in Fiction – Hospital District/Static Cults 7”

(RIYL = Ambient, Dream Pop, Experimental)

Frederik Teige – Elevate

(RIYL = Folk Pop)

Geotic – Bless the Self

(RIYL = Baths, Experimental, Ambient)

Glass Vaults – Into Clear EP

(RIYL = Ambient, Shoegaze, Dreaming)

HAPPY TRENDY – Die Young

(RIYL = Bedroom Pop, Lo-Fi, Electronic)

Headaches – Spooky Mulder

(RIYL = Electronic, Experimental, Aliens)

In Euphoric Company – People You Remember, People You Forget

(RIYL = Indie Rock, Broken Social Scene, Local Natives)

In Lieu – Fuck Crz

(RIYL = Post-Rock, Sigur Ros, Owen)

James Hoffman – Mill City

(RIYL = Acoustic, Folk, M. Ward)

Jeremy Lee Given – Arapaima

(RIYL = Indie Pop, “Bro-Fi”, Large Fish)

Jessica Jalbert – Paris Green (Single)

(RIYL = Melancholia, Dream Pop, Mirah)

John Statz – The Budapest Sessions

(RIYL = Americana, Alt-Country)

Kalle Mattson –Anchors 

(RIYL = Indie Pop, Folk, Canada)

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