Swim Camp – Pretty Bird
Black Belt Eagle Scout – Indian Never Die
Pedro The Lion – Quietest Friend
Cat Clyde – Anymore
She Keeps Bees – Coyote
Cartwheel – Nothing
Tempertwig – Comfort Blanket
Downhaul – Wires / Enough
Witching Waves – Eye 2 Eye
LISA – Primitive Us
Yamachan – Rose Gold Blue
Spelling Reform – The Second Coming
Faith & Majesty – Summer Fling
Caroline Lazar – Georgia
Jeffrey Silverstein – Easy Rider
Ronnie Rogers – Leaning On
Nanami Ozone – Alone Too
Fresh – Willa
Perfume V – Perfume Homes Movies
Hand Habits – Can’t Calm Down
MUNYA – Benjamin
LUNCH – Forget Everything
Control Top – Chain Reaction
Prudence – Euphoria
Cult Film – Bored to Death
Walking Bicycles – Fat Cat
Lost Dog – DFT
Sharkmuffin – Serpentina
Bandy – Trying to Reach You
Gold Connections – Like a Shadow
AllegrA – Spoon or Fork
Parkway & Columbia – Wondering and Wandering
la loye – to live underwater
Kitchen – Claws
Spectator – Waves
Sailor Boyfriend – The Battle of Sugarhill
Ladada – My Van
The Exbats – 2027
Adir L.C. – Reacting
minihorse – Drink You Dry
Trevor Stott – Halfway in the Night
Tyler Burkhart – Waiting For You
Or Sobre Blau – Mártires

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Very much a product of our ludicrous times, Shapes & Colors ​sees, as the band put it, “autofictional, surreal protagonists making do against a technicolor backdrop.” The tone exists somewhere between sincerity and absurdity, a George Saunders-esque appreciation of not only the bizarre excesses of our society but also the people striving to live beneath them. With subject matter ranging from brand paranoia to escapist fantasies both forward-looking and back, this is a record by and for folks stranded amidst the roiling sea of late capitalism, clinging to anything and everything in an effort to stay afloat.

“In my first year after graduating from college, commonly referred to as ‘the beginning of the rest of your life,’ I held onto books, songs, anything I could relate to as much as retreat to,” Waldron explains. “The aim of this album really is for others to use it the same way.” To further these themes and ideas, Sailor Boyfriend have also put together a full color, 4.25″ by 5.5″ zine, filled with illustrations based on each song from Kat Schneider, Laura Marciniak, and Waldron himself.

Today, we’re lucky enough to be able to share a new single, ‘The Battle of Sugarhill’. The perfect example of Sailor Boyfriend’s uncanny ability to create songs both sleek and playful, the track is a taut, neon-flashed display suspended within a dreamy dark. The hip mood and style belies the comic farce of the lyrics, Waldron detailing a war as seen through the eyes of “disco sucks” DJs

You know you gotta believe
Pray loud enough ‘till they scream

Marching with our crimson platform shoes
Kneeling on our Velvet leather pews

took on Sugarhill
Dahl scoffed, “oh, this landfill?”
i asked if he’d been but he just grinned
and rung his decibel

bearing flags of artistry
we were screamin’ like an infantry
They’re ready to shock? i’d die on this rock and
Take back our industry

Album art by Andy Waldron

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