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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Crook Decker &#8211; Beacon You might know Jude Lilley as part of London-based psych-pop outfit Moreish Idols, but after a strange experience during the pandemic lockdown, he is now setting out solo for brand new project Crook Decker. Debut full-length Graffiti Lagoon will be released later this month via Seb Wildblood&#8217;s acclaimed label all my thoughts, and Lilley has put out single &#8216;Beacon&#8217; to give a taste of the unexpectedly humid, tropical tones of a release which reimagines Bermondsey as [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/11/04/weekly-listening-november-2025-1/">Weekly Listening: November 2025 #1</a> appeared first on <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk">Various Small Flames</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3 style="text-align: center;">Crook Decker &#8211; Beacon</h3>
<p>You might know Jude Lilley as part of <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/london/">London</a>-based psych-pop outfit Moreish Idols, but after a strange experience during the pandemic lockdown, he is now setting out solo for brand new project <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/crook-decker/">Crook Decker</a>. Debut full-length <em>Graffiti Lagoon</em> will be released later this month via Seb Wildblood&#8217;s acclaimed label <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/all-my-thoughts/">all my thoughts</a>, and Lilley has put out single &#8216;Beacon&#8217; to give a taste of the unexpectedly humid, tropical tones of a release which reimagines Bermondsey as a bayou. &#8220;It was during an insanely hot, pandemic summer in 2020 that my astro-turfed terrace became an oasis,&#8221; as Lilley explains. &#8220;The world was getting sick, Peckham was a desert, and London was a swamp, but somehow, up there, I was protected from it all. I began to write through the eyes of Crook Decker, a lonesome swamp dweller who swears by the superficial mantra &#8216;ignorance is bliss&#8217; as he trots through his environment, refusing to take in the real world around him.&#8221;</p>
<p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1725989266/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=2523297731/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://crookdecker.bandcamp.com/album/graffiti-lagoon">Graffiti Lagoon by Crook Decker</a></iframe></p>
<p><iframe title="Crook Decker - Beacon (Official Audio)" width="1170" height="658" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3EsFcb_BVI8?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<p><em>Graffiti Lagoon</em> will be released on the 12th November via all my thoughts and you can <a href="https://crookdecker.bandcamp.com/album/graffiti-lagoon">pre-order it now</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">G1rldad &#8211; Biter</h3>
<p>&#8220;kissing on the bruise / that reminds me of you / and where you left your love,&#8221; sings <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/G1rldad">G1rldad</a> on new single &#8216;Biter&#8217;. Based in San Luis Obispo, California, the project makes an emotive style of indie rock in the vein of Sadurn, and the new track is the ideal introduction to their work. A song delivered with a certain level of restraint, built from a tender hush that is never quite punctured, but not lacking any force of feeling as a result. Because within the intimate style the vocals emerge with a confessional conviction, speaking to the private intimacies of queer love as though to reinforce their joy and meaning.</p>
<p><center><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 442px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=1330242581/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://g1rldad.bandcamp.com/track/biter">Biter by G1rldad</a></iframe></center>&#8216;Biter&#8217; is out now and available from <a href="https://g1rldad.bandcamp.com/track/biter">Bandcamp</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Honey I&#8217;m Home &#8211; Insecure</h3>
<p>&#8220;Operating at the intersection of shoegaze, indie rock and post-punk&#8221; was how we described the work of Dutch band <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/honey-im-home/">Honey I&#8217;m Home</a> back in March, with single &#8216;<a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/03/31/weekly-listening-march-2025-5/">Wishful Thinking</a>&#8216; using shadowy textures and visceral energy to tap &#8220;into ethereal moods without sacrificing a certain emotional immediacy to achieve a cathartic sound.&#8221; Described by the band as a song &#8220;about the notion that carefree innocence doesn&#8217;t exist,&#8221; new single &#8216;Insecure&#8217; dials up this cathartic element even further. A song which rallies against the patriarchal structures of society with both fury and something more hopeful, its soaring crescendos playing like a wish for a better version of the present, where everyone is free to live and move the world without fear.</p>
<p><iframe title="Insecure" width="1170" height="878" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DNOsKDG-nvM?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<p>&#8216;Insecure&#8217; is out now and available from the <a href="https://found.ee/honeyimhome_insecure?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaemPWkAR5xCNnJSl8WcL2kqTRCRJnBCZa4yJ_DbGve9UTgx_jkDjtzkw43WzQ_aem_6Rqq27MuX3fwH8xCUCO6fw">usual places</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Joyer &#8211; Favorite</h3>
<p><a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/winspear/">Joyer</a>&#8216;s new album <em>On the Other End of the Line… </em>was created in novel conditions for the duo, siblings Nick and Shane Sullivan working through separation, loneliness, post-tour blues and the perpetual uncertainty around the purpose of making music. Previous singles like &#8216;<a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/09/26/joyer-glare-of-the-beer-can/">Glare of the Beer Can</a>&#8216; and &#8216;<a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/10/13/weekly-listening-october-2025-1/">At the Movies</a>&#8216; suggested potential escapes from this slow crush of life, but with the album now out via Julia&#8217;s War Recordings, the Sullivans have returned with new single &#8216;Favorite&#8217; which takes a slightly different approach. Because instead of distracting themselves or dreaming of different worlds, the song sees the pair confront the frustrations of making art in a world of short attention spans and a thousand new acts a minute, emerging not with dismay but instead a regained conviction. Because, as the title suggests, making music is their favourite thing to do despite all the associated baggage, and <em>On the Other End of the Line… </em>is a testament to that undying passion.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4040286871/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=3650796037/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://joyer.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-other-end-of-the-line">On the Other End of the Line&#8230; by Joyer</a></iframe></p>
<p>Watch the visualizer by Nara Avakian below:</p>
<p><iframe title="Joyer - Favorite (Official Visualizer)" width="1170" height="658" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AOdyBu83d5o?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<p><em>On the Other End of the Line…</em> is out on the 24th October via Julia’s War Recordings and you can pre-order it now from the Joyer <a href="https://joyer.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-other-end-of-the-line">Bandcamp page</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Lia Kohl &#8211; Voting Line, Downtown Chicago</h3>
<p>Back in October <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/10/10/lia-kohl-various-small-whistles-song/">we introduced</a> <em>Various Small Whistles and a Song</em>, the new album from <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/chicago/">Chicago</a>-based composer <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/lia-kohl">Lia Kohl</a> which takes inspiration from the Ed Ruscha work of a similar name to use a series of ostensibly humble tracks to evoke larger social situations and spaces. &#8220;The result is an attempt to convey the subtle textures of life in a way that feels at once incidental and carefully curated,&#8221; we wrote, &#8220;and one that ultimately adds up to something far greater than the sum of its parts.&#8221; With the record coming in a couple of weeks via <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/Dauw">Dauw</a>, Kohl has shared new track &#8216;Voting Line, Downtown Chicago&#8217;, which, as the title suggests, was recorded while waiting to vote in 2024. “The person in front of me began whistling, and the sound carried through the marble lobby, adding levity to our collective anxious solemnity.” A track only a minute long but loaded with all the context of society and history, the sonic equivalent of Frederick Wiseman&#8217;s Cinéma vérité.</p>
<p><center><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2696843056/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/track=3517455504/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://liakohl.bandcamp.com/album/various-small-whistles-and-a-song">Various Small Whistles and a Song by Lia Kohl</a></iframe></center><em>Various Small Whistles</em> <em>and a Song</em> will be released on the 14th November via Dauw and you can <a href="https://liakohl.bandcamp.com/album/various-small-whistles-and-a-song">pre-order it now</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Lydia Luce &#8211; Belly</h3>
<p>We&#8217;ve covered a couple of singles from <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/lydia-luce">Lydia Luce</a>&#8216;s new album <em>Mammoth</em> in recent months, establishing both the style and thematic concerns of a record all about pain and recovery. First &#8216;<a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/08/25/weekly-listening-august-2025-4/">Quiet</a>&#8216;, a song, as we wrote, &#8220;all about the slow process of learning to not only tolerate silence but embrace its power within a noisy world.” Then &#8216;<a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/09/30/weekly-listening-september-2025-5/">Ephemeral</a>&#8216;, a duet with <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/luke-sital-singh">Luke Sital-Singh</a> which used strings, winds, piano, viola and cello to create a sound which rises towards almost classical peaks. With the album out now, Luce has shared a new single &#8216;Belly&#8217;. The first song written for the album, it is a fitting choice to celebrate the release. A track which originated in the depths of a period of suffering yet nevertheless asserted the potential of recovery, as though in some way instigating not only the rest of the record but also the path back to health Luce&#8217;s life would take. &#8220;This song is about being more than the state of my physical body,&#8221; she explains, as well as &#8220;being patient with ourselves as we heal.&#8221; Watch the video by by Jason Lee Denton and Aliegh Shields below:</p>
<p><iframe title="Lydia Luce - Belly (Official Video)" width="1170" height="878" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jWWpnXIgnls?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<p><em>Mammoth</em> is out now and available from the <a href="https://tonetree.ffm.to/-mammoth">usual places</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">paer &#8211; Power Lines</h3>
<p>LA duo <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/paer/">paer</a> have introduced themselves this year with a couple of singles, showing off a style which utilises layered vocals and shimmering guitars to evoke nostalgic soundscapes full of texture and light. To close out their debut year, paer have released &#8216;Power Lines&#8217;, the second track on a double single which does far more than establish the project&#8217;s tone. Delve into the hazy richness of the sound and you&#8217;ll find there&#8217;s an entire world beneath the surface, exploring ideas of grief and mourning with real nuance. The aftermath of loss, the song suggests, is a delicate balance. A push and pull between the past and the future where the seeming opposite desires to commemorate and move on must be handled with care. But far from championing one over the other, or indeed suggesting any sense of competition, paer instead paint a picture where apparent contradictions can coexist. &#8220;To be everything at once, to be nothing, in the same light.&#8221;</p>
<p><center><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3101606762/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/track=1214605536/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://paer-band.bandcamp.com/album/power-lines">Power Lines by paer</a></iframe></center><em>Power Lines</em> is out now via Anxiety Blanket Records and available from <a href="https://paer-band.bandcamp.com/album/power-lines">Bandcamp</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Rainwater &#8211; Bluebelly</h3>
<p><em>Yesturday &amp; Tamarlow</em>, the new record from <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/rainwater/">Rainwater</a> sits at a crossroads between terror and wonder. Written following the birth of lead Blake Luley&#8217;s first daughter, the record explores both the anxieties and joys of parenthood, particularly its bewildering early days. All this is delivered in a style Luley sums up as &#8220;Arthur Russell fronting a 2000s era indie rock band,&#8221; proving the perfect vehicle as it slides from gently dreamy indie pop to taut indie rockers like single &#8216;Shadow&#8217; which, as <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/04/07/weekly-listening-april-2025-1/">we described in a preview</a> &#8220;sees the project lean further towards post-punk than ever before.&#8221; Today we&#8217;re focusing on &#8216;Bluebelly&#8217;, a lush and romantic look at the &#8220;devoured days&#8221; of a new baby which captures the record&#8217;s ethos perfectly. As Glen Boudin&#8217;s perceptive liner notes put it: &#8220;Becoming a parent is scary, a radical recontextualization of your entire life, but it’s also a beautiful, mysterious encounter with infinite love.&#8221;</p>
<p><center><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2281620167/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/track=1614927144/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://rainwatermusic.bandcamp.com/album/yesturday-tamarlow">Yesturday &amp; Tamarlow by Rainwater</a></iframe></center><em>Yesturday &amp; Tamarlow</em> is out now and available from the Rainwater <a href="https://rainwatermusic.bandcamp.com/album/yesturday-tamarlow">Bandcamp page</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Snocaps &#8211; Heathcliff</h3>
<p>It can be easy to forget Katie and Allison Crutchfield started out their careers in collaboration, the Alabama twins winning acclaim in the beloved yet short-lived P.S. Eliot before going onto bigger things with <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/waxahatchee">Waxahatchee</a> and <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/swearin">Swearin&#8217;</a> respectively. So it is extra satisfying to see things come full circle with the surprise announcement of new project <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/snocaps">Snocaps</a>. Comprised of the Crutchfields plus <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/mj-lenderman">MJ Lenderman</a> and Brad Cook, the project offers a new vehicle for them to explore the overlaps and divergences of their different solo paths. Their self-titled album shadow dropped via <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/ANTI-/">ANTI-</a> on Halloween so there&#8217;s plenty to dig into, but where better to start than a track named after everyone&#8217;s favourite orange cat?</p>
<p><center><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3609777143/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/track=3557298470/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://snocaps.bandcamp.com/album/snocaps">Snocaps by Snocaps</a></iframe></center><em>Snocaps</em> is out now via ANTI- and you can get it from <a href="https://snocaps.bandcamp.com/album/snocaps">Bandcamp</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Tim Heidecker &#8211; Alone Until I&#8217;m Home</h3>
<p>Last month <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/10/03/passages-artists-in-solidarity-with-immigrants-refugees-and-asylum-seekers/">we introduced</a> <em>Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers</em>, coming this December via <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/Western-Vinyl">Western Vinyl</a> in support of Texas-based organisations, <a class="x_text-link" title="https://www.americangateways.org/" href="https://www.americangateways.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="5">American Gateways</a> and <a class="x_text-link" title="https://www.casamarianella.org/" href="https://www.casamarianella.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="6">Casa Marianella</a>. Produced and organised by Emilie Rex and Rick Alverson in response to the precarity and cruelty of the present moment,&#8221; we wrote, &#8220;<em>Passages</em> is a new project which asked artists to write and record a song in a place that feels like home.&#8221; A huge range of artists are involved, with the offerings from <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/alan-sparhawk/">Alan Sparhawk</a> and <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/benjamin-booker/">Benjamin Booker</a> released as early singles to hint at the compassion and solidarity of the release. Now Western Vinyl have unveiled <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/tim-heidecker/">Tim Heidecker</a>&#8216;s similarly heartfelt &#8216;Alone Until I&#8217;m Home&#8217;. The compilation&#8217;s closing track and in many ways an embodiment of its message, the song is a lucid, sincere ballad for all those travelling or displaced, be they hoping to return home or else find a new place which might, in time, come to feel like one.</p>
<p><center><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3951250682/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/track=1258270906/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://westernvinyl.bandcamp.com/album/passages-artists-in-solidarity-with-immigrants-refugees-and-asylum-seekers">Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers by Tim Heidecker</a></iframe></center><em>Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers</em> will be released on the 5th December via Western Vinyl and you can <a href="https://westernvinyl.bandcamp.com/album/passages-artists-in-solidarity-with-immigrants-refugees-and-asylum-seekers">pre-order it now</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Van Chamberlain &#8211; Miracle Drug</h3>
<p>Over the coming months, <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/brooklyn/">Brooklyn</a>&#8216;s <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/val-chamberlain">Van Chamberlain</a> will be sharing their second album <em>As Far As the Eye Can See</em>, a planned &#8216;waterfall release&#8217; where a new single is shared month by month until the entire thing is released. Oh and five two-song cassettes will drop in-sync with the singles and videos too. For now, we have our first taste of the record with &#8216;Miracle Drug&#8217;, a lush track pitched somewhere between the dreamy haze of dream pop and something more jangly and bright. The result is decidedly bittersweet in nature, a nascent crush brought to life in all of its longing and shimmering potential. Where the line between melancholy and possibility is porous and the world itself feels new.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=1970389704/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://vanchamberlain.bandcamp.com/track/miracle-drug">Miracle Drug by Van Chamberlain</a></iframe></p>
<p>Watch the video below, conceived, directed and edited by Ricky Lewis with cinematography and color by Tony Carter and production support by David Olmsted:</p>
<p><iframe title="Van Chamberlain - Miracle Drug Official Music Video" width="1170" height="658" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jerDWLOEl7E?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<p>&#8216;Miracle Drug&#8217; is out now and available from <a href="https://vanchamberlain.bandcamp.com/track/miracle-drug">Bandcamp</a>. <em>As Far As the Eye Can See</em> is coming soon.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/11/04/weekly-listening-november-2025-1/">Weekly Listening: November 2025 #1</a> appeared first on <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk">Various Small Flames</a>.</p>
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		<title>Weekly Listening: October 2025 #1</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon Doyle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Gabriel Izak &#8211; Sin Eater Based in Humboldt County, California, songwriter and producer Gabriel Izak makes contemplative, emotionally earnest songs which fall in the centre of a venn diagram between folk, pop and rock. Latest single &#8216;Sin Eater&#8217; is the ideal entry point for the uninitiated, embodying the spirit of the project and the mood which results. It traces how personal pain so often has familial roots, and how one might go about absolving themselves of this weight. &#8220;[I] wrote [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/10/13/weekly-listening-october-2025-1/">Weekly Listening: October 2025 #1</a> appeared first on <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk">Various Small Flames</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3 style="text-align: center;">Gabriel Izak &#8211; Sin Eater</h3>
<p>Based in Humboldt County, California, songwriter and producer Gabriel Izak makes contemplative, emotionally earnest songs which fall in the centre of a venn diagram between folk, pop and rock. Latest single &#8216;Sin Eater&#8217; is the ideal entry point for the uninitiated, embodying the spirit of the project and the mood which results. It traces how personal pain so often has familial roots, and how one might go about absolving themselves of this weight. &#8220;[I] wrote this three years ago, after I had a conversation where someone told me I should visualize sending family guilt &#8216;up to the cosmic compost heap&#8217;,” Izak explained in an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DPolWLHkWBB/?img_index=1">Instagram post</a>. &#8220;Couldn’t manage to fit that line in a song but wanted to write about intergenerational stuff. And how it can feel like you don’t deserve to move through it and let go, but you totally do.&#8221; Supporting vocals from Marley Jarvis only deepen the emotion of the track, and fans of acts like Big Thief and Hovvdy are sure to find plenty of admire.</p>
<blockquote>
<h5>Cut the cord, but still we&#8217;re tied<br />
To the shame of legacy<br />
Prehistoric, hollow eyed<br />
No man is my enemy<br />
And all I ever wanted was to set you free</h5>
</blockquote>
<p><center><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 442px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=3553145527/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://gabrielizak.bandcamp.com/track/sin-eater">Sin Eater by Gabriel Izak</a></iframe></center>&#8216;Sin Eater&#8217; is out now and available from <a href="https://gabrielizak.bandcamp.com/track/sin-eater">Bandcamp</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">JJJJJerome Ellis &#8211; Evensong, Part 1 (for and after June Kramer)</h3>
<p>&#8220;A space carved out of the hectic every day into which the listener is invited, Ellis using the album as a kind of intermission within ordinary time where we might consider histories both personal and communal, as well as those of the natural world, and thus come to honour and understand ourselves more faithfully.&#8221; So we wrote of <em>Vesper Shadow</em>, the new album by <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/jjjjjerome-ellis/">JJJJJerome Ellis</a> coming next month via <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/shelter-press/">Shelter Press</a>. In the preview, published <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/09/02/jjjjjerome-ellis-vesper-sparrow/">back in September</a>, we described how the title track &#8220;breath[es] new life into the Gospel mainstay ‘His Eye is on the Sparrow’ in a way only Ellis could&#8221; to introduce &#8220;the dynamic between detail and space which marks <em>Vesper Sparrow</em>, but also the sense of reverence and possibility inherent within the style.&#8221; With the record&#8217;s release steadily approaching, Ellis has unveiled album opener &#8216;Evensong, Part 1 (for and after June Kramer)&#8217; to allow audiences another glimpse inside. &#8220;The stutter can be a musical instrument,&#8221; they say in the opening line, before proceeding the prove the statement with such invention and grace.</p>
<p><center><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=225623914/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/track=1648174928/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://jjjjjerome.bandcamp.com/album/vesper-sparrow">Vesper Sparrow by JJJJJerome Ellis</a></iframe></center><em>Vesper Sparrow </em>will be released on the 14th November via Shelter Press and you can pre-order it now from the JJJJJerome Ellis <a href="https://jjjjjerome.bandcamp.com/album/vesper-sparrow">Bandcamp page</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Jordan Whitlock &amp; Memory Spells &#8211; False Lights (Reprise)</h3>
<p>“Suffused with the lush, shadowy grandeur of Lynch at his most romantic.” That&#8217;s how we&#8217;ve described collaboration between <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/memory-spells/">Jordan Whitlock</a> and <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/matt-bauer/">Matt Bauer</a>&#8216;s <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/jordan-whitlock/">Memory Spells</a>, tracks like &#8216;<a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2024/02/19/weekly-listening-february-2024-3/">Take My Hand</a>&#8216; and &#8216;<a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2024/06/25/weekly-listening-june-2024-4/">Heaven and Here</a>&#8216; demonstrating an orchestral, cinematic brand of folk rock fit to support the poetic songwriting of the duo. New song &#8216;False Lights (Reprise)&#8217; reimagines a track from Bauer&#8217;s 2015 album <em>Dream&#8217;s End</em>, evoking the old maritime legend of wreckers luring vessels onto rocks in order to plunder their goods to explore more personal ideas of loss and ruin. As you might expect from such a description, the track sits at the darker, more melancholic end of the project&#8217;s spectrum, though within its tales of deception and devastation flickers something more hopeful or defiant too. A true light to match the malicious mimic, however black the night.</p>
<blockquote>
<h5>Oh how many wrecks like<br />
Run aground chasing all false lights<br />
Broken apart with want<br />
For what‘s not there’s to have?<br />
From the shore, strangers rifle their pockets<br />
Rip the lockets from around their necks<br />
Gentle waves lap the decks<br />
And still the stars shine ever brighter</h5>
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<p><iframe title="False Lights (Reprise)" width="1170" height="878" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Eg_e3eVaF4g?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<p>&#8216;False Lights (Reprise)&#8217; is out now and available from <a href="https://www.deezer.com/us/track/3559325791?host=0&amp;utm_campaign=clipboard-generic&amp;utm_source=user_sharing&amp;utm_content=track-3559325791&amp;deferredFl=1&amp;universal_link=1">the usual places</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Joyer &#8211; At the Movies</h3>
<p>We&#8217;ve featured a couple of tracks from <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/joyer/">Joyer</a>&#8216;s new album <em>On the Other End of the Line… </em>in recent weeks, with &#8216;<a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/08/04/weekly-listening-august-2025-1/">Cure</a>&#8216; showing how the pair have &#8220;sand[ed] down the shoegaze scale of the previous record while maintaining its pop melodies [&#8230;] pushing the Joyer arrangements into newly ambitious territory.&#8221; While &#8216;<a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/09/26/joyer-glare-of-the-beer-can/">Glare of the Beer Can</a>&#8216; &#8220;sit[s] in [the] half space between reality and daydream,&#8221; as we wrote, &#8220;breathing a sense of romance into the ordinary, even if the longing at its heart seems destined to go unsatisfied for a good period yet.&#8221; With the album coming soon via <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/09/26/joyer-glare-of-the-beer-can/">Julia&#8217;s War Recordings</a>, the duo have returned with &#8216;At the Movies&#8217;, a song which paints another method of retreating from life&#8217;s pressures. Where its predecessor used romance as a way to overcome the everyday, the new song champions the safe harbour of the pictures. A space away from the world, even existence itself, if only for a few hours.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4040286871/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=1278563397/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://joyer.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-other-end-of-the-line">On the Other End of the Line&#8230; by Joyer</a></iframe></p>
<p>Watch the video animated by Sabrina Nichols below:</p>
<p><iframe title="Joyer - At The Movies (Official Video)" width="1170" height="658" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_a93PR01qEg?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<p><em>On the Other End of the Line…</em> is out on the 24th October via Julia’s War Recordings and you can pre-order it now from the Joyer <a href="https://joyer.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-other-end-of-the-line">Bandcamp page</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Lisa SQ &#8211; Make It Up to You</h3>
<p>Recording under the moniker Lisa SQ, <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/montreal/">Montreal</a>-born, <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/hamilton/">Hamilton</a>-based multidisciplinary artist Lisa Savard-Quong creates indie rock with an avant garde edge, bending the conventions of the genre with a playful, curious and slightly surreal personality. With debut album <em>Reel Me In</em> coming next month, Lisa SQ has released new single &#8216;Make It Up to You&#8217; to introduce the style. A delightfully bittersweet ode to self-destructive tendencies brought to life with a team of friends and collaborators, including Tyler Kyte, Adam Hindle and Michael Brushy (all of Dwayne Gretzky fame), Simeon Abbott and producer Ian Docherty (July Talk). “Tyler Kyte (Dwayne Gretzky) and I were talking about people who always invite drama into their lives, and I kept picturing these classic tragic heroes, doomed but relatable,” as Savard-Quong explains. “The song grew out of that and my own pacing, daydreaming, and writing in the attic.”</p>
<p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=3419662493/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://lisasq.bandcamp.com/track/make-it-up-to-you">Make It Up to You by Lisa SQ</a></iframe></p>
<p><iframe title="Lisa SQ - Make It Up to You (Official Video)" width="1170" height="658" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cSwCFTFUfmU?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<p>&#8216;Make It Up to You&#8217; is out now and available from <a href="https://lisasq.bandcamp.com/track/make-it-up-to-you">Bandcamp</a>. <em>Reel Me In</em> is coming soon.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Rivulets &#8211; Came</h3>
<p>Under the moniker <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/rivulets/">Rivulets</a>, <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/portland/">Portland</a>, <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/oregon/">Oregon</a>-based songwriter Nathan Amundson has created stark, emotionally charged music which sits at the intersection of folk, slowcore and electrified rock for several decades. Latest single &#8216;Came&#8217; sits at the dark, downbeat end of this spectrum, a lonely song stripped back to its essential features, the guitar and murmured vocals enveloped by a shadowy emptiness, as though the real weight of the sound lies in its negative space. Amundson&#8217;s voice plays within this atmosphere as something hushed and half-defeated, his questions rhetorical and addressed to nothing but the night itself. Like the words of a man clinging on through the dark hours in the hope of glimpsing some streak of light on the horizon.</p>
<p><center><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 442px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=2160013697/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://rivulets.bandcamp.com/track/came">Came by Rivulets</a></iframe></center>&#8216;Came&#8217; is out now and available from the Rivulets <a href="https://rivulets.bandcamp.com/track/came">Bandcamp page</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">roman around &#8211; Moves pt.2</h3>
<p>We last wrote about <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/roman-around/">roman around</a> (AKA Fresno, <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/california/">CA</a>’s Roman Rivera) a year ago upon the release of full-length <em>The Toll of Unconditional Love </em>on <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/trailing-twelve-records/">Trailing Twelve Records</a>, describing how the album drew on intensely personal experiences to explore how love can persist and flourish within the most difficult circumstances. Now Rivera is back with brand new release <em>Wish (Tapes EP) </em>which looks to both continue the style and evolve the project to chart new sonic territory. Fittingly, single &#8216;Moves pt. 2&#8217; serves as a extension of the track &#8216;Moves&#8217; from the previous album. A meditation on the passage of time which explores not only that which changes but also those things which remain. Not least those features of US policy, be it the long years of military occupation or the contemporary rise of mass deportation.</p>
<p><center><iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2172641745&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true" width="100%" height="300" frameborder="no" scrolling="no"></iframe></center></p>
<div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;"><a style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" title="roman around" href="https://soundcloud.com/romanxaround" target="_blank" rel="noopener">roman around</a> · <a style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" title="Moves (pt.2)" href="https://soundcloud.com/romanxaround/moves-pt-2-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Moves (pt.2)</a></div>
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<p><em> Wish (Tapes EP)</em> is out now via <a href="https://www.trailingtwelve.com/roman-around-wish-tapes-ep">Trailing Twelve Records</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Silver Liz &#8211; Dream More Vivid</h3>
<p>Early next year, <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/brooklyn/">Brooklyn</a>-based dream pop duo Silver Liz will release <em>III</em>, a brand new full-length album put out on their own Extremely Pure label. Carrie and Matt Wagner have made a name with an imaginative, idiosyncratic style of shoegaze and dream pop, previous albums <em>I Can Feel the Weight</em> and <em>It Is Lighter Than You Think </em>owing as much to the contemporary cutting edge as the nineties classics, expanding the possibilities of a genre often prone to imitation. The new record promises to be their most ambitious to date, embracing a maximalist approach to create something colourful and shifting, each track its own kaleidoscope packed with texture and detail. Listen to lead single &#8216;Dream More Vivid&#8217; now:</p>
<p><center><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=158371778/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/track=1806433337/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://silverliz.bandcamp.com/album/iii">III by Silver Liz</a></iframe></center><em>III</em> will be released on the 30th January via Extremely Pure and you can <a href="https://silverliz.bandcamp.com/album/iii">pre-order it now</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Sulka &#8211; Halloween</h3>
<p>The recording project of <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/glasgow/">Glasgow</a>-based songwriter Lukas Clasen, Sulka originated as a DIY effort, Clasen not only playing all the instruments on the early releases but producing and engineering them too. That era of the project peaked in 2021 with the release of <em>Take Care</em> via <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/lost-map-records/">Lost Map Records</a>, and by the time 2023 full-length <em>Distractions</em> came around, Sulka was recording in a studio with a full-band for the first time. The first release since that album, latest single &#8216;Halloween&#8217; finds Clasen still evolving his sound, pairing subdued vocals with an eerie backdrop of distorted guitars and synths to evoke the season of its title. The track which emerges captures the duality of Halloween, where nostalgic comfort meets the shadowy unease of the unknown.</p>
<blockquote>
<h5>It’s Halloween, we’re out tonight<br />
But your mask can’t hide your eye<br />
I’ve been down, but I’m alright<br />
The world can end, but you’ll survive</h5>
</blockquote>
<p><center><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 442px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=1697227385/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://sulka.bandcamp.com/track/halloween">Halloween by Sulka</a></iframe></center>&#8216;Halloween&#8217; is out now and available from the Sulka <a href="https://sulka.bandcamp.com/track/halloween">Bandcamp page</a>.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/10/13/weekly-listening-october-2025-1/">Weekly Listening: October 2025 #1</a> appeared first on <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk">Various Small Flames</a>.</p>
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		<title>Joyer &#8211; Glare of the Beer Can</title>
		<link>https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/09/26/joyer-glare-of-the-beer-can/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon Doyle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Sands down the shoegaze scale of the previous record while maintaining its pop melodies, as well as pushing the Joyer arrangements into newly ambitious territory,&#8221; so we wrote of the Brooklyn duo&#8217;s new album On the Other End of the Line&#8230;, forthcoming next month via Julia’s War Recordings. Siblings Nick and Shane Sullivan followed different paths since the release of the previous Joyer album Night Songs last year, forcing them to confront the loneliness of new places at the same time [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/09/26/joyer-glare-of-the-beer-can/">Joyer &#8211; Glare of the Beer Can</a> appeared first on <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk">Various Small Flames</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Sands down the shoegaze scale of the previous record while maintaining its pop melodies, as well as pushing the <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/joyer/">Joyer</a> arrangements into newly ambitious territory,&#8221; so <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/08/04/weekly-listening-august-2025-1/">we wrote</a> of the Brooklyn duo&#8217;s new album <em>On the Other End of the Line&#8230;</em>, forthcoming next month via <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/Julias-war-recordings">Julia’s War Recordings</a>. Siblings Nick and Shane Sullivan followed different paths since the release of the previous Joyer album <em>Night Songs</em> last year, forcing them to confront the loneliness of new places at the same time as grappling with post-tour blues, and the experience seems to inform the new record. As though having been faced with a lack of connection, the Sullivan&#8217;s endeavoured to utilise music as a uniting force.</p>
<p>After lead single ‘Cure’ introduced the record, detailing &#8220;how we search for small moments of connection within the isolation of the contemporary world,&#8221; Joyer have now returned with new track &#8216;Glare of the Beer Can&#8217;. A song &#8220;about being reminded of someone everywhere you go,&#8221; as the band explain. &#8220;About seeing that person in both the good and bad things in life.&#8221; A phenomenon, they continue, which &#8220;adds meaning to the mundane and enhances the beautiful things.&#8221; Pairing twangy guitars with punchy drums and featuring supporting vocals from Morgan Powers, the song sits in this half space between reality and daydream, breathing a sense of romance into the ordinary, even if the longing at its heart seems destined to go unsatisfied for a good period yet.</p>
<blockquote>
<h5>Heard you in the night<br />
And in the dawn<br />
Inside of headphones<br />
And crowded streets<br />
Heard it in my head<br />
And into my dreams</h5>
</blockquote>
<p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4040286871/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=457695677/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://joyer.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-other-end-of-the-line">On the Other End of the Line&#8230; by Joyer</a></iframe></p>
<p><iframe title="Joyer - Glare of the Beer Can (Official Visualizer)" width="1170" height="878" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bbGxIwOtwpc?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<p><em>On the Other End of the Line…</em> is out on the 24th October via Julia’s War Recordings and you can pre-order it now from the Joyer <a href="https://joyer.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-other-end-of-the-line">Bandcamp page</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon Doyle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Weekly Listening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eli Carvajal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hildegard von Bingen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia's War Recordings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MacGregor Burns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minus The Bear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Generation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noele Flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OK Cool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post Present Medium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safe Suburban Home Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suicide Squeeze Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Take a Hike Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New Eves]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Donner Party &#8211; Halo Back in 1987, San Francisco alt rock outfit Donner Party released a self-titled debut full-length, a record which drew on the strange, macabre imagery behind the project&#8217;s name (the Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who alleged became murderous cannibals when stranded in the Sierra Nevada) to explore themes of anxiety and death with a tone both playful and esoteric. Hence tracks titled &#8216;Godlike Porpoise Head Of Blue-Eyed Mary&#8217;, &#8216;John Wilkes Booth&#8217;, &#8216;The Owl [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/08/04/weekly-listening-august-2025-1/">Weekly Listening: August 2025 #1</a> appeared first on <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk">Various Small Flames</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3 style="text-align: center;">Donner Party &#8211; Halo</h3>
<p>Back in 1987, San Francisco alt rock outfit <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/donner-party">Donner Party</a> released a self-titled debut full-length, a record which drew on the strange, macabre imagery behind the project&#8217;s name (the Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who alleged became murderous cannibals when stranded in the Sierra Nevada) to explore themes of anxiety and death with a tone both playful and esoteric. Hence tracks titled &#8216;Godlike Porpoise Head Of Blue-Eyed Mary&#8217;, &#8216;John Wilkes Booth&#8217;, &#8216;The Owl Of Minerva&#8217; and more. Fast forward nearly forty years and Donner Party are re-releasing the album via <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/trussed-recordings">Trussed Recordings</a>, with the tracks remastered by Melbourne-based musician and engineer Mikey Young. Single &#8216;Halo&#8217; serves as an introduction to a whole new generation, its racing rhythm and country twang embodying the band&#8217;s mischievous spirit and infectious energy. &#8220;There&#8217;s a halo on my head,&#8221; as the chorus goes, &#8220;though it sometimes fades, I would sooner lose my life than trade my halo away.&#8221;</p>
<p><center><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2477339132/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/track=2744786209/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://donnerparty.bandcamp.com/album/donner-party">Donner Party by Donner Party</a></iframe></center><em>Donner Party</em> will be re-released on the 19th September via Trussed Recordings.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Eli Carvajal &#8211; Scar</h3>
<p>&#8220;Manag[es] to evoke the ways in which love elevates the ordinary into something wonderful, and creates the possibilities of new myths and dreams before us.&#8221; That&#8217;s what we had to say about &#8216;<a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/03/21/eli-carvajal-stretch-marks/">Stretch Marks</a>&#8216; by London-based songwriter <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/eli-carvajal/">Eli Carvajal</a> back in March, a song &#8220;simple in execution and all the more convincing for it,&#8221; as we continued, which &#8220;marks Carvajal as a songwriter to watch as we move further into 2025.&#8221; Well, now we&#8217;re further into 2025, the wait to hear more is almost over, as Carvajal is preparing to release new full-length <em>Eyen Forever</em> in October via <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/safe-suburban-home-records/">Safe Suburban Home Records</a>. Latest single &#8216;Scar&#8217; is every bit as observant and tender, welcoming the audience into the mundane details of everyday existence in order to gesture towards themes more poignant and sweeping. &#8220;I wrote this song on my 29th birthday, while I was living in Tokyo, when I cut my finger while cutting garlic,&#8221; Carvajal explains. &#8220;A symbolic spilling of blood over the last year of my twenties. I imagine the drops of blood as rubies springing up; this theme of transformation continues as I reflect on everyday life in Japan and my feelings around approaching thirty.&#8221;</p>
<p><center><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3908539124/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/track=550789085/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://elicarvajal.bandcamp.com/album/eyen-forever">Eyen Forever by Eli Carvajal</a></iframe></center><em>Eyen Forever</em> is out on the 3rd October via Safe Suburban Home Records and availble to <a href="https://elicarvajal.bandcamp.com/album/eyen-forever">pre-order now</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Joyer &#8211; Cure</h3>
<p>Nick and Shane Sullivan, the sibling duo behind <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/joyer/">Joyer</a>, have gone their separate ways since the release of previous record, <em>Night Songs</em>, each moving to a new city and having to grapple with the distance and loneliness when going through the already challenging post-tour blues. But if new full-length <em>On the Other End of the Line&#8230;</em> is anything to go by, the experience has only strengthened their resolve to utilise Joyer as a force for connection and meaning. Forthcoming via <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/Julias-war-recordings">Julia&#8217;s War Recordings</a>, the full-length sands down the shoegaze scale of the previous record while maintaining its pop melodies, as well as pushing the Joyer arrangements into newly ambitious territory. Lead single &#8216;Cure&#8217; gives a hint at what to expect, detailing how we search for small moments of connection within the isolation of the contemporary world.</p>
<p><center><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4040286871/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/track=3563886600/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://joyer.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-other-end-of-the-line">On the Other End of the Line&#8230; by Joyer</a></iframe></center><em>On the Other End of the Line&#8230;</em> is out on the 24th October via Julia&#8217;s War Recordings and you can <a href="https://joyer.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-other-end-of-the-line">pre-order it now</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">MacGregor Burns &#8211; What I&#8217;ve Been Looking For</h3>
<p>&#8220;Through a number of singles in recent months, LA songwriter <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/macgregor-burns/">MacGregor Burns</a> has established a style at once emotionally resonant and idiosyncratic,&#8221; we wrote back in June, with songs like ‘<a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2024/09/26/macgregor-burns-silent-answers/">Silent Answers</a>&#8216;, ‘<a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2024/11/26/weekly-listening-november-2024-4/">Can’t Go Back</a>&#8216; and &#8216;<a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/06/09/weekly-listening-june-2025-2/">I&#8217;m Not Supposed to Be Here Anymore</a>&#8216; falling somewhere on the spectrum between slacker rock and folk. Latest offering &#8216;What I&#8217;ve Been Looking For&#8217; both continues this style and nudges it in new directions. Relatively sparse and slow-moving, there&#8217;s a slightly forlorn tone to the track, though as a subtle R&amp;B groove establishes itself and Burns&#8217;s vocals rise in conviction, the result is romantic rather than lonely. The spacious arrangement revealed to be not the product of stark solitude but rather a burgeoning clarity, the delivery aching with the knowledge of having stumbled upon that which he so keenly desires yet had previously proved elusive.</p>
<p><center><iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/2126367735&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true" width="100%" height="300" frameborder="no" scrolling="no"></iframe></center></p>
<div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;"><a style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" title="MacGregor Burns" href="https://soundcloud.com/macgregorburns-music" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MacGregor Burns</a> · <a style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" title="What I've Been Looking For" href="https://soundcloud.com/macgregorburns-music/what-ive-been-looking-for" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What I&#8217;ve Been Looking For</a></div>
<p>&#8216;What I&#8217;ve Been Looking For&#8217; is out now and available from <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0xVDM2ci1UwCsLQFhqFVPv?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaeaWKEI2U0Z8d4R62QnbhrUZyp8NbMMlM6xQ4mvSuTkBO8eFZTggu7c9ePK0g_aem_VmcJ6GbrPYlsvtMBlp7jgg&amp;nd=1&amp;dlsi=ed9532c5fbfc4c7d">the usual places</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Minus The Bear &#8211; Drilling</h3>
<p>Back in July <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/07/15/weekly-listening-july-2025-3/">we wrote</a> of how <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/suicide-squeeze-records">Suicide Squeeze Records</a> are putting out a deluxe edition of <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/minus-the-bear/">Minus The Bear</a>&#8216;s seminal album <em>Menos el Oso</em> to celebrate its twentieth anniversary this month, with the original album expanded with a number of demo versions of some of the most beloved tracks. After &#8216;The Pig War&#8217; a few weeks ago, the band are now back with a brand new video for &#8216;Drilling&#8217;, directed/edited by Cheyne Smith and produced by Minus the Bear and Do Better For Artists. Check it out below, and be sure to catch Minus The Bear on their North American tour this autumn if they pass a town near you. All the dates are available <a href="https://www.minusthebear.com/tour">here</a>.</p>
<p><iframe title="Minus The Bear - Drilling (OFFICIAL VIDEO)" width="1170" height="658" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ChZIfC0Bniw?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<p>Suicide Squeeze Records will release <em>Menos el Oso (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)</em> on 22nd August. Get a copy now from the Minus the Bear <a href="https://minusthebear.bandcamp.com/album/menos-el-oso-20th-anniversary-deluxe-edition">Bandcamp page</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">My Generation – Want It</h3>
<p><a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/my-generation">My Generation</a> are a new band from LA, who recently unveiled themselves to the world with debut single ‘Want It&#8217;. What label <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/post-present-medium">Post Present Medium</a> describe as “a sparse yet lambent meandering jam,” the track is a great intro to the trio, that is N.A.S. (P22, Purity) Sara Mayako (Mayako XO, Behavior Mayako XO) and Sophie Weil (Syko Friend, Pink Trash Can). It’s oddly timeless, the raw guitar, subtle percussion and detached drawl of vocals sounding could be modern or fifty years old, like some unearthed long-lost 7” gem that has lost none of its electric verve.</p>
<p><center><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 442px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=3027219069/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://mygeneration.bandcamp.com/track/want-it">Want It by My Generation</a></iframe></center>‘Want It is out now via Post Present Medium and is available from the My Generation <a href="https://mygeneration.bandcamp.com/track/want-it">Bandcamp page</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">The New Eves – The New Eve</h3>
<p>On the first day of August, Brighton-based quartet <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/The-New-Eves">The New Eves</a> released their debut album <em>The New Eve Is Rising</em>, via <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/transgressive">Transgressive</a>. The record captures the band’s theatrical and ritualistic live performances and their distinctive “Hagstone rock” style that combine mystical freak folk, reckless punk and poetic radical feminism. It’s the product not of a superstitious or occult past, but rather something altogether new, a self-created mythology. As the label put it: “It’s a boundless, uninhibited kind of magic that feels completely new; that’s writing its own rulebook for how to exist &#8211; as a band, as women, as humans in the world &#8211; from the ground up.” The opener and title track is (unsurprisingly) the best place to start, something like a mission statement of the project as a whole.</p>
<p><center><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2848254323/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/track=2772958893/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://theneweves.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-eve-is-rising">The New Eve Is Rising by The New Eves</a></iframe></center><em>The New Eve Is Rising </em>is out now via Transgressive and available via The New Eves <a href="https://theneweves.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-eve-is-rising">Bandcamp page</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Noele Flowers &#8211; Ricky, you are a vision</h3>
<p>Back in 2023 <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2023/02/15/weekly-listening-february-2023-2/">we wrote</a> about Massachusetts-raised, Hudson Valley-based songwriter <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/noele-flowers/">Noele Flowers</a> and her EP <em>Wait For Me</em>, explaining how the title track existed in a strange liminal space, where shoots of possibility were shaded by the still looming past. A love song, but one flavoured by a blend of hope and anxiety. Flowers is now preparing to release debut full-length <em>Historically Close Friends </em>to build upon this style, and has unveiled lead single &#8216;Ricky, you are a vision&#8217; as a preview. Recorded with the help of her former choir, Khorikos, the track is what she describes as &#8220;an imagined love song,&#8221; where she puts herself in the shoes of a historical figure in order to write. Namely twelfth-century abbess, writer, and composer Hildegard von Bingen (who you might remember as the focus of <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/larum/">Larum</a>&#8216;s <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/03/13/larum-o-orzchis-ecclesia/">recent release</a>), addressing likely lover Richardis von Stade. A track not without a certain sense of hesitancy in it gentle warmth, yet imbued with an encompassing fondness with furthers the patience which Flowers set out with the previous release.</p>
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<h5>If history remembers us as lovers, they won&#8217;t be quite wrong<br />
Cause I wrote you into every remedy and every song<br />
You are a vision</h5>
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<p><iframe title="Ricky, you are a vision" width="1170" height="878" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Yk_WBn9_ey0?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<p><em>Historically Close Friends</em> is coming soon.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">OK Cool &#8211; Last</h3>
<p>&#8220;Combines emo confession with an infectious forward motion to create something genuinely cathartic despite its dark tone.&#8221; That&#8217;s how we described &#8216;Waawooweewaa&#8217; from <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/ok-cool/">OK Cool</a>&#8216;s new full-length, <em>Chit Chat</em>, back in May. A track which served as the ideal introduction to Bridget Stiebris and Haley Blomquist Waller&#8217;s fresh style, reaching across the spectrum of indie rock, math and shoegaze and combining the influence into something new. With the album out now via Take A Hike Records, the Chicago outfit has shared closer &#8216;Last&#8217; as a new single. Another emotionally charged number which pairs vulnerability with layers of energy and reverb, feeling far larger than its relatively short runtime thanks to its equal embrace of heart and heft. &#8220;Sweetness will you be my last / all my lives have come to pass,&#8221; goes one typically conflicted verse, &#8220;I can’t see it, i don’t know is my driving way too slow.&#8221; Yet for all of the uncertainty, the overarching result is again catharsis, as though OK COOL have found a way to not so much solve life&#8217;s problems but power on through regardless.</p>
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<h5>one day you’ll believe me<br />
one day i’ll believe me too</h5>
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<p><center><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1984625251/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/track=374100474/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="https://okcool.bandcamp.com/album/chit-chat">Chit Chat by OK Cool</a></iframe></center><em>Chit Chat</em> is out now via Take A Hike Records and available from the OK Cool <a href="https://okcool.bandcamp.com/album/chit-chat">Bandcamp page</a>.</p>
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<p>The post <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/08/04/weekly-listening-august-2025-1/">Weekly Listening: August 2025 #1</a> appeared first on <a href="https://varioussmallflames.co.uk">Various Small Flames</a>.</p>
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