I meant only to send a message this week, to say that I'm moving house and therefore would need to take a few days away from the screen and the sharing to concentrate on the real world for a little bit. I don't know if it&
There's a certain kind of magic that comes from hearing a song unlike any other you've heard before. 'when a song dies', the first single from the debut album from the pond carries such giddy-eyed enchantment, growing from an unkempt and delicate first minute
If 'Many', the new single from Satomimagae, feels like a snapshot it's because it is. One of fifteen pieces that make up her new and forthcoming album, 'Many', the like the album as a whole, "unfolds as a series of vignettes that document
We were big champions and supreme lovers of Spring Onion's 2018 collection, I Did My Taxes For Free Online. It seems almost unfathomable that it's been 7 years since that release, but finally, thankfully, held with the same sense of grace and charm, Catherine Dwyer returns
We were mesmerised by Thanya Iyer's previous album, Kind, featuring her and it in one of our printed journals upon its release all the way back in the heady summer days of 2020. Soulful, colourful, kaleidoscopic pop music, it was a deeply personal collection of songs and Thanya
In his new press photograph, Will Johnson sits on his porch, steely eyes looking into the camera, a grey and bright day reflected in the window, winter creeping forward through the stark, empty branches that surrounds him. It's an apt setting because it epitomises the music he'
There are a couple of Raymond Carver stories that are seared into my brain, not just the words or the sentiments but the worlds I created around them too. When I think of them even now, I see the faces of characters, the light spreading across private rooms, images conjured
A year on from the release of her debut album - 2024's GOOSE LP - Mol Sullivan shared Winter '13, a remastered collection of demos that Sullivan initially released way back in 2013. Now, in 2025, Sullivan is a member of WHY? in addition to her her
In yesterday's post, on Ben Kweller and record collections as friendships, I touched briefly on, not only music discovery, but finding the gossamer threads that exist artists, producers, labels; the collective, shifting energy greater than the sum of its parts. I spent the winter lost in the work
I've always thought of record collections as friends, a mish-mash of casts and characters that pepper your life. Some stumble in at just the right time, stay around forever, pure and true. Others drift in and then out again, for no particularly reason. There never has to be
It's always a sincere joy when Orindal Records announce a new release; the label having previously ushered records from Gia Margaret, Julie Byrne, Karima Walker, Claire Cronin and so many others into the world over the past few years. Today it's the turn of Moontype, a
I was only recently lamenting the days of yore when we were a fully functioning (kinda), all guns blazing (kinda), music platform, when I would spend a few hours each week digging through Bandcamp's digital crates to try and unearth diamonds. We always tried to work that way