Ruth Garbus – Strash
Mauno – Vampire
Outer Spaces – Gazing Globe
Benjamin Shaw – Long Ago and Oh So Far Away
Erin Durant – Islands
Daughter of Swords – Dawnbreaker
Melissa Mary Ahern – Maria, Maria
Oscar Lush – Kind Living
Midwife – Angel
Young Elk – False Paradise
Wilder Maker – Love So Well
Big Joanie – Way Out
Secrecies – Life We Live
Beat Radio – Everyone I Know, Just Holding On
American Poetry Club – pro pic?
So Totally – sike
halfsour – Paper Window
Joyer – Here
Marbling – Wisdom Teeth
High Sunn – Grateful
Slow Pulp – New Media
Molly Drag – Out Like a Light
Van Houten – Moon
Birdspotter – Riverbed
Tender Perennial – Delivered
JR Samuels – In Brend 2
Elly Swope – Habits
Derek Piotr – The Sign
Fighting Kites – Kita Senju
Nathalie Joachim – Papa Loko (Interlude: September 24, 1918)
Kali Malone – Sacrificial Code
Kate Tempest – Holy Elixir
Little Musket – Fever Blister
Gold Baby – 500/1
Tennis Club – Stay
Young Mammals – Lost in Lima
Abe Hollow – Paradise
bdrmm – Question Mark
Briston Maroney – Fool’s Gold

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

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“I had wanted to write something about how fucked up it is that we glorify the idea of the suffering artist,” Alex wrote of the name in a Facebook post. “Which was what I took the poem to be about, and which resonated with me because as far as I could see, my own ‘suffering’ has only ever stopped me from getting on with writing.” Only, the phrase Gold baby has only grown in its meaning as time as gone on. “But now when I read the poem I take something else from it,” Alex continues. “That she is battling with becoming her own source of strength and learning—or trying to learn—how to take up space.”

Showing off the ethereal blend of grunge, folk and rock that constitutes the Gold Baby style, new single ‘500/1’ finds Alex conversing with her past self, confessing how little has changed to the innocent adolescent and noting with disbelief and no small amount of dissatisfaction just how much time has passed.

You came here from 2003
You thought that I’d be bigger didn’t you?
You thought that I’d be better didn’t you, admit it

I’ll show you around my sad little town
All I’ve learned is duller ways to waste my time

Five hundred to one
You still went back and put a bet on

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