“Fundraising sampler compilation for cassette label Start-track.com”
Jangle-pop is alive and thriving: Welsh duo Red Cavalry deliver infectious jangly indie-pop energy with McCarthy-style lyrical agitation on Popaganda, while LA's The Freebies splice '60s girl-group charm with lo-fi modernity and Velvet Underground-tinged introspection. Hamlet shimmers with Big Star power-pop energy and melancholic jangle-rock on The Breaking Point Is Grieving, and Publicity Department crank up crunchy guitars and two-part harmonies with power-pop influences filtered through '90s alt-rock. Brooklyn's Avery Friedman issues a glistening return single ahead of her first UK/EU tour.
“Debut EP from CIAO MALZ, the acclaimed project from Brooklyn-based Filipino-American artist Malia DelaCruz with James Chrisman (Sister.) and Felix Walworth (Told Slant / Florist)”
“A retrospective compilation of the polarizing cult Indie Pop songwriter and filmmaker CHUCK”
“A loaded and layered 2013 cult-favourite LP from the Parker brothers (Nosferatu D2 / My Best Unbeaten Brother / Tempertwig).”
“Publicity Department return to lo-fi, homespun, fuzzed out pop territory with new album 'Old Master'”
“Brooklyn-based Filipino-American Indie artist CIAO MALZ (Malia DelaCruz) has just released her warped, glistening, and surfy “Two Feet Tall” single via the non-binary-owned Audio Antihero label.”
“Awaiting Your Arrival for the Journey explores the joy of being free from illusions of self & others.”
“Get introduced to the original CIAO MALZ demo ahead of her new warped, glistening and surfy 'Two Feet Tall' single (released Nov 15th via Audio Antihero)”