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September 2019 Roundup

Liam Doyle — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 18:43:52 +0000

Here’s a mixtape featuring all the bands and artists we covered in September 2019.

Blood Warrior – Wooden Shade
Rosie Tucker – How Sad, How Lovely (Connie Converse cover)
Fran – Company
JAYA – Learn To Swim
Taylor Hamilton – What Is Real?
Carver Baronda – If Nothing Else Comes Along
Rose Dorn – Deathwish
Milly – Crazy Horse
Guidon Bear – Washing Machine
Joey Nebulous – Pride Month
Dorio – Shortcuts
Special Friend – Before
Sarah Pagé – Lithium Taper
Old Amica – Condensation
Blushing – Dream Merchants
Patient Hands – Stasis
Bryce Kepner – Chances
Jake Bellissimo – why fit? (Jordaan Mason cover)

Check out our previous Monthly Roundup playlists, and be sure to read our Reviews and Previews throughout the month.

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Taylor Hamilton – What Is Real

Liam Doyle — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 08:40:09 +0000

We last wrote about Californian Taylor Hamilton back in April, when we shared the single ‘Might Say’ from her debut album. It was a song “keyed into the beauty and meaning that emerges from patience and nuance,” we wrote. “Operat[ing] within a kind of expansive melancholy, a sound both emotive and ethereal that relies as much on the negative space between the notes as the notes themselves.”

Taylor Hamilton recently unveiled the album’s second single, and the title, ‘What Is Real’, gives clues as to its themes. As the press release states, “[the] existential question opens the doorway into a piece of music that will send the listener tumbling into outer space, into a place without gravity, where all things are relative and primordial.”

As with ‘Might Say’, the track again exists in a vast empty space, sparse guitar and the bell-like purity of Hamilton’s voice ringing out in the dark. It’s a love song, but on existential terms, exploring the warm reassurance of confirming your existence by “feeling” the existence of someone else.

I know, I know I’m feeling you,
You exists and I think you do too

Taylor Hamilton’s self-titled debut album will be released later this year. Keep your eyes peeled on her Soundcloud page for updates.

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April 2019 Roundup Mix

Liam Doyle — Wed, 01 May 2019 20:31:48 +0000

Here’s a roundup of everything we covered during April 2019.

Adrianne Lenker – cradle
German Error Message – Hopelessness
Jo Schornikow – Incomplete
Grizzly Coast – Half-Light Boy
Taylor Hamilton – Might Say
Porridge Radio – Give / Take
Patio – Scum
Ruthie – Spirit Now Moves
Esther Rose – Don’t Blame It On the Moon
Blood Cultures – Flowers For All Occasions
Puddle-Cuddle – Compost
Mess – Dead Space
Cry Babe – Soft Honk
The Painters – Pieces of Life
Two Meters – Ground
Erin Durant – Take a Load Off
Michelle Blades – Ring
Eric & Magill – Thanks to Sciences
Foundlings – Caught Up on You
Craig Finn – Something To Hope For
JW Ridley – Homesick (Out The Blue)
Pieket – Eternal Recurrence
The Curfews – Rose
Emily Fairlight – Body Below
Raggedy – Brainwash
Barrie – Saturated
Blush – Forever Is a Long Time
Shane Leonard – Empire Builder
Con Davison – Sofa Bed
Gold Light + Snakemusk – The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
The Chats – Pub Feed
Shutups – Yellowjacket
Izzy Heltai – Stuck In Stone
Adam Ostrar – Take It Back
The Death Of Pop – Last
Toledo – Some Samurai
Yot Club – Japan
Evan Thomas Way & The Phasers – Long Distance
K. Campbell – Heads Up
The Duke of Norfolk – As the Heralds Revere You
Leaky Engine-John Birch Society Blues
naps – treading
Vieo Abiungo – What the Rain Restores
Old Earth – The Friends ∴ The Gods
Good Good Blood & Astral Social Club – Heathen Astronaut

Like what you hear? Catch up with the rest of our Monthly Mixes!

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Taylor Hamilton – Might Say

Jon Doyle — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 19:42:36 +0000

Based in the quiet mountains of southern California, Taylor Hamilton is a songwriter keyed into the beauty and meaning that emerges from patience and nuance. Her self-titled debut album, set for release later this year, operates within a kind of expansive melancholy, a sound both emotive and ethereal that relies as much on the negative space between the notes as the notes themselves. There might be no answers in Hamilton’s writing, but her deep and considered engagement with the questions is enough, as though soul and grace can provide resolution, or at least comfort, for even the most thorny of problems.

We’re thrilled to be able to share lead single ‘Might Say’ ahead of the record’s release. Demonstrating the finespun power of Taylor Hamilton’s music, the song is built from longing, the rawness of love and lust and their aching absences woven into gossamer sheets of guitar. Characteristically, the song relinquishes any concept of binary emotions, the clear Loves Me/Loves Me Not of Hollywood and sugary pop forgone in favour of subtle, multifaceted feelings that conflict and complement one another—leading to a very human tangle of yearning and doubt.

The self-titled album will be released later this year.