“Has one of the finest early 90s pre-Britpop jams been dug out of the archives, despite being recorded in 2025?”
From the singer-songwriter vaults, where demos become destiny: Matt DeMello's Jennifer's Appendix, Vol. 1 unearths garage rock pivots, anti-folk looseness, and GarageBand confessions from the shadow of 2014 — Paul Simon to Wolf Like Me, lovingly restored. Solid Blood's Western Sun brings math-y, dreamy, emotive post-rock indie from the Rue Defense universe, while Alexei Shishkin's Good Times captures a surrealist four-day studio escape built on loose bass lines and zero blueprints. Jack Hayter's Sucky Tart offers world-beaten balladry that Pitchfork called "weariest" and BBC 6 Music likened to "Tom Waits running amok in a second-hand music shop."
“Has one of the finest early 90s pre-Britpop jams been dug out of the archives, despite being recorded in 2025?”
“Songs about empty spaces, vague memories, twisted lines of communication, reluctant employment, confusing reflections, dead horses, broken phones and unfortunate haircuts.”
“A heartfelt, genre-blending indie folk album, 'Colin Rooney' delivers raw emotion, tender storytelling, and uplifting resilience through intimate songs that speak to love, loss, and the courage to ...”
“Built around sample-like fingerstyle arpeggios and lush vocal harmonies inspired by folk-rock legends, this song delicately revisits one of the artist's earliest (and most formative) memories.”
“Seamlessly transitioning through psyche-rock, college rock and the most winsome of singer-songwriter genre with absolute jangly intent.”