Slowcore music

Quiet music, heavy feelings: Start-Track's Vol. VIII Instrumental Compilation gathers only instrumental tracks for their eighth indie blog showcase, while Start-Track's Fundraising Sampler '24 keeps indie music journalism alive and writer-funded. SMIC's The Upside (Of Losing Everything) goes slower, heavier, and quieter — a survival story built to stick around — while eccles st.'s homesick. is three songs of pure nostalgia bait, written in the space between leaving and arriving. frans asthma's wait outside brings lo-fi post-shoegaze slowcore from Arizona, and Rose Bowl's Four of Cups meditates on what we overlook when we're too focused on what we lack.