Song list:

Options – Waiting
2nd Grade – Favorite Song
Alexander – Going to Sleep
Ryan Van Gonten – Fabrique
Haunted Continents – What Were You Born For?
Weakened Friends – Blue Again
Shybaby – Lazy Hazy
Frankie Valet – April
Primo! – You’ve Got a Million
Hypoluxo – Kentucky Smooth
Basement Revolver – Knocking
Dead Painters – Output
HALEY – Infinite Pleasure Part 2
Doe – Heated
Ing – Dust
Benjamin Shaw – Terrible Feelings!
internet boy crush – ghost friend
lowly loverboi – Dumb Phone
Dead Tooth – Liars
Kin Hana – You
Bodega – The Truth is Not Punishment
The Cordial Sins – Not Enough
Indoor Cats – Fun 2
Upstairs – Trust the Process
Sabriel’s Orb – Holding
John Atkinson – Bakwaves // Rye
Fanclub – Leaves
The Chairman Dances – Acme Parking Garage
Con Davison – Talk
Ivy Dye – Diminish
Elizabeth Owens – I Long
The Last Bison – Don’t Look Away
Our Fastest Typist – It’s Nice Outside, but My Head is Killing Me

You can find all of our monthly round-up posts here, and our complete array of mixtapes here.

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‘Dust’ is the tape’s first single, and what we want to share with you today. After a sparkling opening, the track begins like a slow bedroom pop song, Balesi’s mumbled vocals drifting around sparse guitar and gently shuffling drums. In keeping with this style, the mood is downbeat and reserved, as though in the slow hours of torpor after some loss or heartbreak.

However, it doesn’t take long for things to lurch off in a different direction, sounding skittish as the drums kick into a nervous trot and guitar rushes along in an antsy rhythm. This erratic behaviour continues until the whole thing comes shuddering to a halt at the end, an illustration of how Ing like to keep things unpredictable, and giving new pertinence to the staccato scribbles of the album’s artwork.

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