Tracklisting:

Frog – American
The Phone Booth – Ballad of Indifference
Spielbergs – 4AM
Neurotic Fiction – Collateral
Neighborhood of Make Believe – Track Names
Pizzagirl – body part
Orchid Mantis – porch song
Gorgeous Bully – patience
Reighnbeau – Trading Heat
Troy Everett – Absent
Amparo – Hounds
REW<< – Victoire Impossible
Okay Embrace – Moving
Young Jesus – For Nana
Vender & The Cobras – Everything is Beautiful
The Lostines – Faith in Love
Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover – Little Wind
Rivulets – Everything Goes
Balto – Bullshit Dream
Meat Wave – That’s Alright
Docks – Kiosk
Satanic Ritual Abuse – Hurting (Adjective/Verb)
SATU – Growing Up
Anna Tivel – Fenceline
Madison Turner – Richmond, Virgina
Elly Swope – 6.8
Nathan Ball – All or Nothing
Monarch Mtn – canyon blues
Stripmall Ballads – You Were Good (I Was Good For a While)
Katie Mullins – Crocuses
Lisa/Liza – Tea Kettle
free cake for every creature – shake it out
Katy Kirby – Tap Twice
Lung Cycles – hottest day of the year so far (4pm version)

You can find all of our Monthly Roundup playlists here, and peruse a wider range of mixtapes that we’ve put together over the years.

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Opener ‘Hometown’ fuses the ethereal DIY bedroom pop of Spartan Jet-Plex with 80s inflected romantic pop, equal parts vulnerable and infectious. Westwood’s vocals ache with feeling on the title track, which opens with icy xylophone and dramatic spacious vocals, before expanding with beats and electronic atmospherics—like a lonely ghost with a fondness for pop music, serenading you through the attic floorboards. Like much of the album it’s undeniably pretty and catchy, but something in the emotion at its heart cuts to the bone, gauzy shadows adding a strange, gothic, air and making sure things don’t get too shallow or saccharine.

In comparison, ‘Alarm’ sounds slick and streamlined, although it’s lyrics reveal a hidden turbulence, while ‘Nightmaring’ turns the weird dial up a few notches, a kind of witchy hip-hop-pop track, the samples and vocal effects forgoing funkiness in favour of a macabre suggestiveness. Closing track ‘Moonlight’ has a nighttime vibe, Westwood’s vocals swirling like smoke across a song that’s at once sweetly romantic and somewhat supernatural, referencing both sweet candy and rose quartz, all bathed in the light of a full moon.

You can get Growing Up now from the SATU Bandcamp page. Also check out SATU’s art if you’re interested!

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