January 2016 Roundup – A Mixtape

Jon Doyle — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:29:47 +0000

Here’s the January 2016 roundup, a mixtape featuring every artist we covered last month. Due to the holiday break and various end of year lists, it’s not as long as usual, but we are positive you’ll find something that tickles your fancy. Click the artist name in the tracklisting to be taken to the post in question.

Tracklisting:

1. Amerika – Wintersleep
2. Born Confused – Porridge Radio
3. Catchyalater – Frog
4. Water – Opals
5. Listerine – Foxall
6. Nightmare Song – Oscar Lush
7. October Mirage – Island Eyes
8. Past is Personal – West America
9. Roller – Quilt
10. Unattached – Two White Cranes
11. On the Nights You Stay Home – Donovan Woods
12. Call Out – Minor Moon
13. Consolation – The Chairman Dances (Lit Links)
14. First I’m Sorry – Haley Heynderickx
15. Waitress – Soft Lions
16. Vanitas – Hanging Hills
17. Waiting – Faint Peter
18. Farewell Navigator – Naomi Pop
19. Gifts – Real Swell
20. Future Wife – Jacob Faurholt
21. Wall – Slows Down
22. Olly Oxen Free – Creature Speak

P.S. On the subject of roundups, make sure you read about our favourite albums of 2015, our favourite songs and favourite free music.

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Quilt share singles ahead of new album, Plaza

Jon Doyle — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 16:04:35 +0000

Boston folk-psych-pop outfit Quilt are set to release a new album next month. Entitled Plaza, the record will be the band’s third and is promised to be their strongest collection of songs yet. To whet our collective appetites, Quilt have released two songs from the record, both of which make us excited for the whole album.

‘Eliot St.’ is a sunny slice of unflustered pop, quietly confident and loose-limbed, it leans on strings and harmonies in ways reminiscent of some of pop’s all-time greats. The lyrics however are less positive, mourning the general reluctance or inability to form tight, lasting bonds with others.

Following a similar pattern, ‘Roller’ is fronted by Anna Fox Rochinski and misleadingly bright and peppy, the pop sensibilities decorating a song that’s really about loneliness, frustration and self-enforced isolation. The title refers to a term that Rochinski describes as a noun for someone who feels “a sensation that lies somewhere between claiming strength for yourself but also hiding to protect yourself from the human bullsh*t of the world.”

Plaza will be releases on the 26th February on Mexican Summer. and you can pre-order it now on CD or vinyl, and first 250 orders get a limited edition cassette.

Photo by Daniel Dorsa, cover art by Ken Price

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January 2016 Roundup – A Mixtape

Quilt share singles ahead of new album, Plaza