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
You're going to have forgive me for not putting the work in here, but I've been meaning to carve out some time to listen to Cameron Winter's new record. Today I finally did just that and I can't remember the last time
A blistering return from Becca Harvey's girlpuppy project today, alongside the announcement of a brand new LP to be released shortly, at the end of March, via the ever-excellent Capture Tracks label. 'Sweetness', released March 28th, was made with Alex Farrar, who's previously worked
"Bad News is made for that period of time between the end of winter and the beginning of spring. Stillness before movement," Magana says of her new four-song EP. "Each song is about the period of time right before a transition: the realization that change is coming
Home to the likes of US Girls, Wolf Parade, Ducks Ltd et al, Royal Mountain has always been a pillar of the Canadian indie scene and their latest release is another gem of a record, this time from Alberta songwriter Ella Coyes. Now based in Toronto, and releasing records as
It was sometime in mid 2023 when I had a BTS chat on social media with Shura, who reached out after seeing me talk about a big heap of writer's block I was trying to overcome. She was kind enough to share some resources that had helped her,
A reminder that you can listen to a special two-hour mix featuring some of our favourite music from 2024, over on Mixcloud here. We also have a brand new zine, which is available to order for just another week or so, over on Ko-Fi or Bandcamp. Thank you for supporting!
“Patience comes to the bones before it takes root in the heart," Mary Oliver writes in her poem Patience: A poem for late summer. And it was those words that stirred something deep within Kristin Daelyn, deep enough to not only be reshaped into a new song, but to
There's something quite apt about brand new music from Florist arriving today, on the greyest, wettest day I've found outside my window of 2025 so far. Thus far, Florist's music has almost unanimously belonged to the Spring and Summer, warm gentle days where the
Hello lovely subscribers. It's a Sunday evening so I'll keep this short and sweet. For the past couple of months I've been loving curating and laying out our end-of-year coverage for 2024. We've never really cared about getting in early in terms
I first got into Destroyer via Kaputt, an all-time Top 20 album for me, and one so arrestingly brilliant it took me a while to venture away from. Perhaps it was the apparent slight mis-step in its long-awaited follow-up, 2015's Poison, but Dan Bejar has since made amends
It seems like just yesterday we had Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner on the cover of Issue 8 of our printed publication. It wasn't, of course. It was, in fact, some (and somehow) almost four years ago, the only silver lining of such swift passing of time
A little while back I wrote about discovering the music of Talons' at one of those moments where I really needed it. I was away on my own in a foreign country, all that time for people watching and wandering, smelling new smells, seeing different types of light. The
Anna B Savage is a big fan, it seems, of early-year album releases. Her debut album, A Common Turn, was released in January of 2021, its follow-up arrived in February of 2023, and she continues the pattern with You and i are Earth, the forthcoming ten-song set which will greet
We've shouted about Miya Follick for a number of years, always expecting the LA-based artist to fully breakthrough to the mainstream. Unusual, unique, and always teeming with star quality, Follick has made good on the promise shown on 2015's debut release and looks set to reach
So much of the music that Hamilton Leithauser has released via his band, The Walkmen, tends to come alive, or find a greater sense of spirit at this time of the year. Shuffling through city streets, fists stuffed in pockets, the wind ripping through your bones. Apt, then, that Leithauser
There's so much to the incredible, incredibly sprawling new TRA И Ƨ A compilation that we'll leave it to the organisation who pieced it together to tell the full story: Storied activist and music production non-profit Red Hot presents its latest project, TRAИƧA out November 22nd.
Though he arrives with a new name, Fran O'Hanlon may well sound familiar to those who knew him via his previous project, Ajimal. An considered extension of all that came before, Mezanmi released a brand new album just a couple of weeks ago and it's full
I was lucky to travel to a few different countries this year, and on each trip I got lost, headphones in and far from home, in Beirut's album from last year - having not listened to Zach Condon's project for a good few years. Hadsel, a