Black Sea Dahu – Thaw
Will Henriksen – Nothing Left Behind
Dehd – Letter
Hovvdy – Ruin (my ride)
Maya Lucia – preteen
They Are Gutting A Body of Water – french
Jason Calhoun – moving
Dilary Huff – Overused Sayings
Two Meters – The Nightmare
Dead Painters – Marigold
The Deer – Confetti To The Hurricane
Pastel – Moon Landing
Hit Like A Girl – No More Dysphoria
Basement Revolver – Master’s Degree
Bodies on the Beach – Ghost
Highnoon – Lens
Distant Reader – Marie
Drakes Island – 4 Days
Wet Dream – Worried
Best Mann – Must Be Wrong
The Funs – Trains Across The Sea
Ganser – Buio
Nothings – Favorite Shirt
Corinne Sharlet – Hail Mary
ahem – Halloween
Max and the Martians – Please Hold On
A.S. Wilson – Taken Apart
Béret – Book of Hera
Joel Jerome – There’s Nothing Here To Bother You Anymore
Carpet City – Little Longer
Hannah Cranton – Kite
Zachary Lucky – Didn’t Know That You’d Come Along
Wintersleep – Fading Out
Coral – find me wrong
Boo Baby – “Jazz?”
Margaux – Palm

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

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Set for release on Keeled Scales this November, Do No Harm is the result of a band who have grown together, shared experience granting them an understanding of their strengths that leads to their most confident and skilled record yet. As the title suggests, the album is based around ideas of peace and communication, standing in opposition to much of American history and indeed that of Rowland’s own family. “Members of my family have served in the military for several generations,” she explains. “The United States has been at war since I was in high school, and it’s hard to see a way out as long as there is such a huge industry profit to be made from it.”

Drawing on family history (such as that of her paternal grandparents working for Bell Helicopter in Iran before the 1979 Revolution) as well as a plethora references (from 60s rock opera Hair to Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five), Do No Harm forms a considered and dedicated examination of conflict, as well as the common humanity which violence upends. If division is a product of distance and ignorance, then The Deer seek to close the gap, a peacemaking operation that attempts to connect the human experience once more.

Lead single and opening track ‘Confetti to the Hurricane’ sets the tone, blending the buoyant indie rock of Sun June with a country rock lyricism, Rowland’s vocals finding eddies of rhythm that range from languid to breathless. There’s an edge to the guitars too, flashing its teeth at opportune moments before slinking back below the surface.

Do No Harm is out on the 1st November via Keeled Scales and you can pre-order it now.

Photo by Letitia Smith

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