“Deftly woven ballads with stripped-back instrumentals”
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."