“A hodge-podge of studio outtakes and demo tracks”
From the singer-songwriter trenches, where every chord carries weight: Ian Cat's East Coast New England Boy chronicles homesickness and longing with layered guitars that bend like suspension bridges — "if Wilco had written Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in the proud grungy style of a 1990s Britpop band" — while the double-sided "Baggage Claim / Purgatory Blues" delivers an emotional blast from the heart with searing solos to match. Barrelly Ego's Bearly Eagle tackles a decade of socio-geo-political upheaval with allegorical teeth. Brian Jin's Horizons finds divinity in strange places — Hawaiian-cowboy-ukulele-jazz, dream-dictated Lennon appearances, and mandolin meditations — while Sophie Noel's after the sun hit the roof blends "forest floor pop" and eerie atmospherics to explore solastalgia in a haunted house.
“A collection of acoustic/folk live field recordings of existing songs and a few new debuts from singer-songwriter Zane Alexander”
“Lo-fi acoustic songs about identity and belonging, sung across cultures, sung in French and Spanish”
“A lo-fi, live-first acoustic EP about loss and the quiet collapse of the world around us.”
“Powerlines is a haunting tapestry of indie-folk-pop that maps the distance between Brooklyn’s urban pulse and the expansive New Mexican sky, featuring reverbs recorded inside Georgia O’Keeffe’s Abi...”
“Daisy is a soaring pop/singer-songwriter ballad intricately woven with cinematic strings, describing the complexities and bittersweet hardships of leaving a long-term relationship.”