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February 2016 Roundup – A Mixtape

Jon Doyle — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 14:00:31 +0000

That’s right, February 2016 is a thing of the past. We think it’ll live on in our ears though, because there was some exceptional music floating around that we’ll be going back to all year. Here’s a playlist featuring every act we wrote about, hosted on the brand new (at least to us) Playmoss platform. As ever, click on the artist’s name in the tracklisting to be beamed off to the specific post.

Tracklisting:

1. A Hospital + Crucifix Made of Plastic – Florist
2. Richmond – talons’
3. Say – Indoor Voices
4. Aeroplane – House Plants
5. When I Was an Island – David Karsten Daniels
6. The Gentleman’s Apocalypse – JR Green
7. Hitman – Mrs. Hopewell
8. sun drops – ratbath
9. A Cruise – Brian S. Cassidy
10. Orpheus – Matt Kivel
11. Your Love – Jeremy Squires (INTERVIEW)
12. Blood Moon – C.M. Slenko
13. Bake – Broken Beak
14. Brushes Like a Fox – Saint Corsair
15. daniel – francie cool
16. Baby Blue – Mount Moriah
17. For You – Free Cake For Every Creature
18. Have This Dance – Govier
19. Goodness (trailer) – The Hotelier
20. The River Because – Sawtooth
21. why are you so cool? – Dying Adolescence
22. cockroach – tall friend
23. Waiting – Faint Peter
24. Heart Destroyer – Lazy Legs
25. Take it Forever – Beat Radio (INTERVIEW)
26. Every One of Them, Dogs – Quarterly
27. like a feather or a pawprint – Field Medic
28. Lay For June – Old Earth
29. 2 old 2 broke – Gorgeous Bully
30. Funny Man Routine – Table People
31. House & Home – Arlo Aldo
32. Cave Song – Sea Ghost
33. Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac cover) – Boosegumps (from Sugar Rush)

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Indoor Voices – Auratic

Liam Doyle — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 13:48:07 +0000

Indoor Voices is a Toronto-based dream pop project led by Jonathan Relph. We discovered the five-piece’s latest release, an EP called Auratic, because it was released on Swedish label Häxrummet, who previously brought you lovely shoegazey pop music from Star Horse. The folks at Häxrummet describe the EP as music for “floating on your back in the lake on a warm summer evening wishing upon stars. It’s about the symbiotic necessity of the ugly and the beautiful.” That just about nails it in my opinion. On Auratic, the band are also joined by several guests, including Maja Thunberg from the aforementioned Star Horse, as well as Sandra Vu of SISU and Sum Sum Girls, Jimena Torres of The Great Wilderness, Alisha Erao of Lush Agave and Alligator Indian and Kate Rogers (Kate Rogers Band).

‘See Wish’ opens proceedings with frantic guitars and then smooth, dreamy vocals and clattering percussion, while ‘Atomic’ is slower and dreamier, like a feather-light Beach House, Torres’ vocals the perfect match for the ambience, eventually giving way to waves of shimmering feedback.

‘Indifferentiator’ is another perky dream pop track with layered vocals and a thick, swirling atmosphere, additional vocals this time provided by Rogers. ‘What Can I’ is very percussion-heavy and, at its heart, a sweet and melodic dream pop track, while finale ‘Say’ pulses in front of a sibilant shhshhshh, like a chorus of crickets chirping in the night.

Auratic is out now on limited edition cassette (be quick they’re almost gone!) and digitally via the Indoor Voices Bandcamp page.

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