“The eighth compilation for our indie music blog and label, start-track.com, features only instrumental tracks this time.”
Pressed between friends and tape hiss: phoneswithchords & Ben Sooy swap voice memos and overthinking-free joy on phoneswithBen, a lo-fi folk gem born from summer friendship. Auditory Cortex paints grief and political disillusionment across two slow-burning songs on Willow's Reign, while Alexei Shishkin captures a "lucid yet fleeting four-day escape from reality" through surrealist improvisation on Good Times. Rebekkah The Band weaves war and love into a poem-turned-melody, and Riddlebucket gets fuzz-laden and numinous on the slacker lo-fi sprawl of Catacombic.