Song list:

Options – Waiting
2nd Grade – Favorite Song
Alexander – Going to Sleep
Ryan Van Gonten – Fabrique
Haunted Continents – What Were You Born For?
Weakened Friends – Blue Again
Shybaby – Lazy Hazy
Frankie Valet – April
Primo! – You’ve Got a Million
Hypoluxo – Kentucky Smooth
Basement Revolver – Knocking
Dead Painters – Output
HALEY – Infinite Pleasure Part 2
Doe – Heated
Ing – Dust
Benjamin Shaw – Terrible Feelings!
internet boy crush – ghost friend
lowly loverboi – Dumb Phone
Dead Tooth – Liars
Kin Hana – You
Bodega – The Truth is Not Punishment
The Cordial Sins – Not Enough
Indoor Cats – Fun 2
Upstairs – Trust the Process
Sabriel’s Orb – Holding
John Atkinson – Bakwaves // Rye
Fanclub – Leaves
The Chairman Dances – Acme Parking Garage
Con Davison – Talk
Ivy Dye – Diminish
Elizabeth Owens – I Long
The Last Bison – Don’t Look Away
Our Fastest Typist – It’s Nice Outside, but My Head is Killing Me

You can find all of our monthly round-up posts here, and our complete array of mixtapes here.

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Written after a move from Texas to California, Truthlikeness is a record about the inherent strangeness of new places, as well as the loneliness of trying to making them your own. “I was really quite lonely at the time but also enthusiastic,” Von Gonten says, “so it was an interesting headspace to be in. I was trying a lot of new things but had few trusted friends for affirmation.” First single ‘Anthem’ explored this directly, the dreamy style conjuring a setting where nothing is as it seems, the vocals vulnerable and earnest as Von Gonten declares “I never go out. I gave it a chance, I never go out,” though never descending into outright melancholy.

Today, we’re delighted to be able to share a second single, ‘Fabrique’. Opening the album, the track follows a similar vein, a kind of waking dream as experienced during low-level fever, where rhythms and phrases repeat and recycle, coalescing into significance beyond the modest sound. Von Gonten’s falsetto is joined by the hypnotic pluck of guitar and sparse synths, and this arrangement seems to gather energy from its own order, eventually rising into a wistful finale where the drums finally kick in.

This is dreaminess not as some stylistic choice or genre trope, but a considered and meaningful expression of a life upended. And life is certainly upended during a change of home. Even aside from any obvious cultural and geographical differences, there is something more personal too, some uncanny sense that even recognisable things are different, that familiarity can no longer be trusted or else has ceased to possess meaning. With Truthlikeness, Ryan Von Gonten brings such a state to life, a heightened awareness of isolation and worry, of agitation and doubt, of the beauty of all things.

Truthlikeness is out on the 14th September via Human Noise Records and you can pre-order it now.

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