Black Sea Dahu – Thaw
Will Henriksen – Nothing Left Behind
Dehd – Letter
Hovvdy – Ruin (my ride)
Maya Lucia – preteen
They Are Gutting A Body of Water – french
Jason Calhoun – moving
Dilary Huff – Overused Sayings
Two Meters – The Nightmare
Dead Painters – Marigold
The Deer – Confetti To The Hurricane
Pastel – Moon Landing
Hit Like A Girl – No More Dysphoria
Basement Revolver – Master’s Degree
Bodies on the Beach – Ghost
Highnoon – Lens
Distant Reader – Marie
Drakes Island – 4 Days
Wet Dream – Worried
Best Mann – Must Be Wrong
The Funs – Trains Across The Sea
Ganser – Buio
Nothings – Favorite Shirt
Corinne Sharlet – Hail Mary
ahem – Halloween
Max and the Martians – Please Hold On
A.S. Wilson – Taken Apart
Béret – Book of Hera
Joel Jerome – There’s Nothing Here To Bother You Anymore
Carpet City – Little Longer
Hannah Cranton – Kite
Zachary Lucky – Didn’t Know That You’d Come Along
Wintersleep – Fading Out
Coral – find me wrong
Boo Baby – “Jazz?”
Margaux – Palm

Check out our previous Monthly Roundup playlists, and be sure to read our Reviews and Previews throughout the month.

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Max and the Martians have now released Please Hold On/Love On Vacation, a 7” single consisting of two songs that will be featured on their next full-length album. “It was late spring, it was hot. We would take breaks to let the tape machines cool down, and had to record overdubs with the lights out to avoid the termite swarm in the evening,” Bien-Kahn explains of the recording process. “Duff Thompson, Ross Farbe, and Carver Baronda, some of my favourite songwriters, were playing on this session. We worked on this song all day and we got some really nice results thanks to everybody who was in that room and those magic old reel-to-reels that Mashed Potato Records is known for.”

A-side ‘Please Hold On’ is a smooth shuffle of a track coloured by loss and the passing of time, the gentle country spirit lending that quiet sadness so intrinsic to the genre “[‘Please Hold On’] is a love song to everything we lose,” Bien-Kahn says. “I wrote the lyrics years ago when my grandpa was struggling with Alzheimers, but the song didn’t take form until recently. When loss and grief found me, I rediscovered this song and it took on new life.”

In contrast, ‘Love on Vacation’ is an impish ode to summer dreaming, taking a handful of country rock and a handful of 60s surf to create something warm and glittering. There’s a sense the whole thing is more of a fantasy than a reality, an escape into a place or time where the edges of life are sanded down and our wishes might just come true.

Album artwork by Magda Boreysza

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