Tracklisting:

1) Lost (Season One) – Camp Cope
2) Johnny – Basement Revolver
3) Can U Hear Me Now? – Porridge Radio
4) All 4s – ARMS
5) If You’re on the Water – The Saxophones
6) In Ribbons – Psychic Shakes
7) a good pet – Real Swell
8) Breadcrumbs – The Perennials
9) Father is a Craftsman – Modern Studies
10) Aligning With the Sun – Dear Tracks
11) Cake Bath – Cloud Cover
12) Postdoc Blues – John K. Samson
13) Room For Love – Wooden Dinosaur
14) Crab Line – Trust Fund
15) 1 – Young Jesus
16) Life’s Rough – Serial Chiller
17) Never Lonely – Space Mountain
18) I Wish I Was Plural – Free Space
19) More Than Science – Sunshine Faces
20) Maya – Competition
21) Fireball – Albosel
22) It Hurts- A Day Without Love
23) That Went Well- Guppy
24) Kids Playing Outside – Almanac Mountain
25) Patience To Undo the Patience – Psalmships

You can check out the previous monthly roundups here, and our various other playlists and mixtapes here. Be sure to pop back throughout September and beyond to see what autumn brings!

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The single sees Serial Chiller kick against the false worlds people inhabit online (think carefully manicured Facebook profiles and Instagram point-scoring). As Sam from the band explains.

“I tried to put to paper the intertwining mind fuck that is internet culture… Its about the egotistical borderline obsessive creation of another world through the use of social media, there is no individuality only concepts of self. Its about those people who believe their tongue is a lost scroll of a beat poet, as it unravels you realise you’re wasting your time.”

The track is part fun and catchy, part fuzzy lo-fi rock song, the music exuding a reassuringly DIY vibe that extends right the way down to the pencil-scribbled artwork. The track combines some pretty lofty, complex thoughts with simple energy before eventually devolving into a blazing finale, all clattered drums and punky yelps.

“You spend too much time talking about yourself
and its all too intertextual
cross reference with the books on your shelf
hollow talk of an intellectual

That night, it was a waste of time”

B-side ‘Fuck Right Off’ sounds like Pavement’s slacker rock on a particularly bad day, bored and frustrated and generally misanthropic, only lurching forward because it has nothing better to do. That’s not to say the song isn’t a lot of fun though, the smidgen of irony ensuring these slackers still know how to chill.

You can get Life’s Rough on CD or digital download via the Warren Records Bandcamp page.

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