Indie music

A race against time through indie's finest corners: j.demar's artifacts fuses shimmering dream pop haze, restless post-punk energy, and frantic breakbeat velocity into soaring post-rock crescendos — a time capsule of devotion distilled from eight years of separation. The City Gates' Chimera delivers brooding post-punk rhythms meeting shimmering shoegaze walls of sound, "caught somewhere between collapse and transcendence." som som's safe space offers lo-fi but lush introspection about coming to terms with yourself, while Alexei Shishkin's Good Times captures a lucid, four-day escape from reality through surrealist collage and spur-of-the-moment inspiration. Solid Blood's Western Sun rounds things out with math-y, dreamy, emotive post-rock indie warmth.