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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This autumn sees the band release a new 7″ single, and we’re happy to share a video by Jonny Mancini for the track “Lazy Hazy” to get you excited for the release. “This is a song about being done,” the band explain, “and about settling for now, and about crying over nothing, and about lying to yourself about how it’s ‘nothing.’ It’s a love song in denial.”

This downbeat subject matter is not matched by the sound and tone of the song. ‘Lazy Hazy’ is crafted out of a carefree sense of abandon that borders on reckless, the fun tending toward something near feral with yelps and growls. With a swelling energy that recedes only to flow back in with increased fervour, the track is fuelled by its own zeal, Eire and Leavay singing in tandem or competition, and sometimes just yelling over one another as though seized by an urge no more complicated than screaming at the top of their lungs.

Therefore, the track is neither lazy or hazy, and indeed could serve as an antidote to such afflictions. Shybaby are here to shake you free from lassitude or lethargy through their cavalier, cathartic brand of punk.

The 7″ will be released later this autumn so keep an eye on the Shybaby Bandcamp page for more information, where you can also find their previous release. If you are in New York, they are play a show in The Gutter in Brooklyn on the 29th September so head along to that.

Photo by Jonny Mancini

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