Indie music

Racing against the clock: j.demar's Artifacts fuses dream pop haze, post-punk energy, and breakbeat velocity into soaring post-rock crescendos — a time capsule of devotion anchored by home video recordings. Darren Hayman shares one of his earliest solo releases, a charming British holiday-themed ukulele EP perfect for rainy summer getaways. Montreal's The City Gates return with brooding post-punk shoegaze, while som som offers lo-fi but lush introspection about coming to terms with yourself, and Alexei Shishkin captures a lucid four-day escape from reality through surrealist collage and improvisation.