Claire Cronin – What the Night is Thinking
Michael Cromier – Foghorn
Ylayali – little caterpillar graveyard
Forrest Moody & Jake Bellissimo – Selige Sehnsucht
Grotto Terrazza – Was Leben Will Muss Sterben
Trying – If I Don’t Get a Job
Giant in The Lighthouse – Sprinting
Soften – Iridescent
Champ Major – Abbeville
Grebes – Plum
Jack M. Senff – Old Days
Sam Lynch – Not My Body
Tyler Key – Change My Mind
Ē – Afraid of the Ocean
Dehd – Wild
Pancho and the Wizards – Rot
TV People – Healthier Days
Plastic Cactus – Mystery Boy
Bibi Club – Jean Rene
It’s Sunday – Comme Un Fool
Little Slugger – Impossible
runnner – fan on
Hostxess – Time
omes – wyd
Oliver Ray – Ol’ Coyote
Will Johnson – Cornelius
Merival – No Brakes
My Father’s Son – Dust to Rust
Jordan Klassen – Virtuous Circle
Ditty – Deathcab

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Despite its bright blend of big guitars and atmospheric synths, I Want To Live Here Forever is a break-up record. However, far from mining the depths of melodrama like so many others, Little Slugger take a wider perspective on the situation, presenting not just the loss and longing but also the blank-slate freedom that the end of a relationship represents. As the press release puts it: “This is not a ‘sad’ or a ‘happy’ break-up album: it is everywhere in between.”

Today, we’re delighted to share the latest single from the record ahead of its release on the 19th July. Opening the album, ‘Impossible’ sets the scene, finding the the narrator in a post-break-up stasis where time ticks along but nothing changes. Facilitating the strange limbo is the persistent hope that reconciliation is still possible, that time and distance will lead to a clearer perspective and send the partner running back toward a newly-sincere domestic happiness. The realisation that such a hope is misguided dawns slowly across the track, points of clarity breaking through the fog that eventually build into a steady glow—a light at the end of the tunnel which the rest of the album proceeds to barrel towards.

I Want To Live Here Forever is out on the 19th July and you can pre-order it from the Little Slugger Bandcamp page.

Photosby Meera Jagroop, album artwork by Julianna Brazill 

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