Adrianne Lenker – cradle
German Error Message – Hopelessness
Jo Schornikow – Incomplete
Grizzly Coast – Half-Light Boy
Taylor Hamilton – Might Say
Porridge Radio – Give / Take
Patio – Scum
Ruthie – Spirit Now Moves
Esther Rose – Don’t Blame It On the Moon
Blood Cultures – Flowers For All Occasions
Puddle-Cuddle – Compost
Mess – Dead Space
Cry Babe – Soft Honk
The Painters – Pieces of Life
Two Meters – Ground
Erin Durant – Take a Load Off
Michelle Blades – Ring
Eric & Magill – Thanks to Sciences
Foundlings – Caught Up on You
Craig Finn – Something To Hope For
JW Ridley – Homesick (Out The Blue)
Pieket – Eternal Recurrence
The Curfews – Rose
Emily Fairlight – Body Below
Raggedy – Brainwash
Barrie – Saturated
Blush – Forever Is a Long Time
Shane Leonard – Empire Builder
Con Davison – Sofa Bed
Gold Light + Snakemusk – The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
The Chats – Pub Feed
Shutups – Yellowjacket
Izzy Heltai – Stuck In Stone
Adam Ostrar – Take It Back
The Death Of Pop – Last
Toledo – Some Samurai
Yot Club – Japan
Evan Thomas Way & The Phasers – Long Distance
K. Campbell – Heads Up
The Duke of Norfolk – As the Heralds Revere You
Leaky Engine-John Birch Society Blues
naps – treading
Vieo Abiungo – What the Rain Restores
Old Earth – The Friends ∴ The Gods
Good Good Blood & Astral Social Club – Heathen Astronaut

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There is a new Young Elk record coming later this year, an album that promises to build on the bitter dejection of The Dark Side of the Holy Ghost, but in the meantime Rudick has been exploring different directions away from the band. As such, we’re pleased to introduce you to Leaky Engine, a brand new solo project from Rudick that maintains the dispirited worldview through a different musical lens. Described as an “experiment in slowness,” the project strips down the sound, leaving the vocals front and centre, allowing an unhurried immersion in the grim sadness and simmering anger of Rudick’s voice.

Today we’re sharing the project’s first single. As the title suggests, ‘John Birch Society Blues’ charts the distinct sorrow and anxiety that stems from an upbringing on the ideological fringe, where religious fundamentalism colours all thought and existence becomes and extended eschatological battle. The result of such beliefs is not so much conviction but the very opposite, a generalised paranoia where religious and political fears merge and the Rapture lies around every corner. A life governed by disaster and dread.

“bought me a gun when I was 12
with a banana clip that held
about 30 shells

i was so scared
of the government
thought i should be prepared
for the apocalypse”

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