“[An] introverted adventure- something completely self-produced, a broken, jangly lo-fi pop aesthetic…drenched with nostalgia, true friendship, travel, melancholic love, substance experimentation, paranoia, imperfection, a search for happiness, life and death.”

To our ears, first track ‘The Crow’ sounds like a man with something to convey, the deceptively loose instrumentation and production masking a carefully honed idea. When confronting big, complicated things like love, imperfection and death (AKA the HUMAN CONDITION), in art, surely the most fruitful method is not to sugar-coat the message in high production values and carefully constructed narratives but instead try to replicate the messy, fractured nature of our lives and consciousness?

The album is out on the 17th of July, on both on cassette and digital download, via Double Double Whammy. Until then, check out the darkly surreal video for ‘The Crow’:

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Earth Person – Summer Recordings

(RIYL – Experimental, New Age Ideologies, Peace)

Eat Your Birthday Cake – For Alex (Single)

(RIYL – Indie Rock, Friendship, The Eels)

Eef Barzelay – Songs We Made: Part One

(RIYL – Clem Snide, Will Johnson, John Vanderslice)

Elvis Depressedly – Mickey’s Dead

(RIYL – Bedroom Pop, Coma Cinema, The ill will of the world)

Flight Tonight – Flight Tonight

(RIYL – Post-Dubstep, R&B, Mount Kimbie, Jamie XX)

Fog Lake – inference (iii)

(RIYL – Bedroom Pop, Coma Cinema, Youth Lagoon)

Ghibli – Rare Pleasures

(RIYL – Experimental, Dance, Samples)

Gorgeous Bully – The Young Obese

(RIYL – DIY Rock, Fluffy Lumbers, ARMS)

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(RIYL – Graham Wright,Spencer MacEachren and the Fabulous Yawn, Travelling Willburys)

Hanetration – Tenth Oar EP / Torn Heat EP

(RIYL – Ambient, Electronic, Drone, IDM)

Hazy Memories – Out Of Place EP

(RIYL – Hip Hop, Electronic, Ambient, Spoken Word)

High Pop – Hip Hip Hooray

(RIYL – Garage Rock, fuzz, Wavves)

Ice Dragon – Dream Dragon

(RIYL – Psychedelic, Doom, Rock).

Jacob Augustine – Bikini Island

(RIYL – David Bazan, Shearwater, Bon Iver)

Jake Klar – Jake Klar

(RIYL – Bob Dylan, Joe Pug, Tallest Man On Earth)

Jeannot – Turner Street EP

(RIYL – Folk, young summers, nostalgia)

Jonny Kates – Groombridge

(RIYL – Ambient, drone, Tim Hecker, Loscil)

Kissed Her Little Sister – Sailor

(RIYL – Lo-Fi, Indie pop, Throw Me The Statue, ARMS, Why?)

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