“When you're carrying the weight of isolation, helplessness, and the kind of emotional unraveling that happens when you desperately need someone and no one comes.”
Slowcore shadows and searching souls: SMIC's The Upside (Of Losing Everything) offers quiet, atmospheric alt-indie built to stick around — heavy, clear-eyed, and grounded after the dust settles. Zane Alexander's Outer Darkness Between Worlds drifts through lo-fi acoustic songs about identity and belonging, sung in Spanish and French across cultures. D3void 3D33's Into the Darkness descends at a deliberate 75 BPM into isolation and emotional unraveling — genre-defying and raw. Start-Track's Start The Track: Vol. VIII rounds things out with an all-instrumental indie compilation, and Jordi Farreras' Els amics perduts weaves progressive rock, folk, and intimate songwriting into a deeply personal journey through memory and absence.
“When you're carrying the weight of isolation, helplessness, and the kind of emotional unraveling that happens when you desperately need someone and no one comes.”
“A slow, atmospheric alt-indie track about survival, finding clarity, and finally touching down on solid ground.”
“A moving conceptual album where progressive rock, folk and intimate songwriting come together in a deeply personal musical journey.”
“A remarkable conceptual album where found writings become an intimate journey through art rock, progressive music and experimental songwriting.”
“Lo-fi acoustic songs about identity and belonging, sung across cultures, sung in French and Spanish”
“Many of these songs were written and recorded while staying at a house on the Puget Sound shortly after a family funeral.”
“The eighth compilation for our indie music blog and label, start-track.com, features only instrumental tracks this time.”