Darkness and light collide: Rapt's Until The Light Takes Us and Wayward Faith deliver mesmerizing dark indie folk written in cobwebbed childhood rooms and pandemic isolation, while Natural Light offers a raw one-take folk cover of Casiotone For The Painfully Alone. Start-Track's Vol. VIII brings an all-instrumental indie compilation, paired with their Fundraising Sampler '24. Frans Asthma rounds things out with lo-fi post-shoegaze slowcore from Arizona, and Zane Alexander offers lo-fi acoustic songs sung in French and Spanish, exploring identity and belonging between worlds.
Zane Alexander
Outer Darkness Between Worlds
Lo-fi acoustic songs about identity and belonging, sung across cultures, sung in French and Spanish
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Many of these songs were written and recorded while staying at a house on the Puget Sound shortly after a family funeral.
Various Artists - Start-Track
START THE TRACK: VOL. VIII (INSTRUMENTAL COMPILATION)
The eighth compilation for our indie music blog and label, start-track.com, features only instrumental tracks this time.