June 2018 Roundup

Jon Doyle — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 11:08:19 +0000

A dry, hot month has just left us, but luckily we featured more than enough cool music to keep things bearable. Here’s a playlist featuring all the acts we covered in June 2018, except for Boreen‘s ‘Myers-Briggs’ and Color Tongues‘s ‘Adult Lessons’, which are not available for streaming just yet. We’ll add them once they are live, but otherwise listen below, and click through the links in the tracklisting to be taken to the specific posts.

Tracklisting:

Dear Nora – White Fur
Lawn – 2000 Boy
Pearl Crush – True Blue
Dead Painters – Fool On Fire
Slowcoaches – Found Down
Two Meters – Left Behind
Kerem Atalay – Winter 2
Pat Moon – I Belong
Blood Hype – Not Too Good
Talons’ – Driving Home From Shows
The Nova Darlings – I Like Crashing My Car (Into Yours)
Dead Sullivan – Swallow
Onlyness – Comfortable
Of the Valley – Italy
Nice Knees – Backout
Suburban Pets – Candy
Minor Moon – It’s Okay
Caroline Lazar – Georgia
Heatwarmer – American Dog
Jacob Furr – Life Comes At You Fast
Deux Trois – Dave
Grace Turner – Dead or Alive
Britton Patrick Morgan – Southern Drawl

You can find all previous monthly roundup playlists here, and a variety of other such mixes here. Also, you follow us on Spotify or Playmoss to stay right up to date. Be sure to stay with us through July in what promises to be another great month for music.

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Album Premiere: Suburban Pets – Life in a Citycar

Liam Doyle — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 10:25:17 +0000

Suburban Pets are a duo from Chile, who are about to release their debut album, Life in a Citycar, on the ever-reliable French label Hidden Bay Records. The mini album was made by Suburban Pets in different apartments in Chile and New Zealand between 2016 and 2018, and is a collection of ten lo-fi pop songs that owe equal debts to the downbeat romanticism of 80s pop and the slightly skewed intimacy of Bandcamp-era bedroom recordings.

From the echoey and gentle melancholy opening of ‘Ride On’, to the bummed out surfy vibes of ‘I Refuse to Say Goodbye’, Suburban Pets have crafted an album of considerable diversity, one that’s simultaneously strange, sad and stirring. There’s a fine balance between nostalgic emotion and playful invention, the former keeping the latter in check and vice versa, meaning that the ultimate tone of the record is difficult to pinpoint. Rather, the spirit of Suburban Pets is fun and emotion intertwined, a twist that comes to look a lot like life itself.

Today we unveil Life in a Citycar in its entirety a few days ahead of release. Hit play below to check it out. Standouts include ‘Yellow’, with its devotional organ-style synths and yelled backing vocals, an understated epic conjured from a quiet apartment floor, and the aching, glittering slo-mo synth pop of ‘Dracula’s Lament’, the lyrics stretched and pulled into entracing shapes, like a low-lit hall of mirrors. Also, be sure to to spend some time with the gentle strum of ‘Candy’, which slowly becomes wrapped up with cooing vocals and dreamy guitar lines, forming a gauzy shimmer of song, a moment of peace and respite, like a thin morning mist soon to be burned off by summer sun.

Life in a Citycar is out on the 2nd July via Hidden Bay Records and you can pre-order it now from Bandcamp.

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