Fresh off her triumphant SXSW debut last week in Austin, Saguenay's self-described "new synth folk" producer/songwriter/chanteuse MUNYA performs a selection of highlights from her enchanting EP trilogy -- North Hatley, Delmano, and the new Blue Pine EP -- for CBC's First Play Live...
Sevilla, Spain group Terry vs. Tori share the lovely first single from their forthcoming debut LP Heathers, coming soon. From the track's familiar opening sounds of someone flipping a cassette and sliding it back into the tape deck, you already know you're in for a wave of instant nostalgia, and Terry vs...
Dublin's Maria Somerville just dropped her beautifully hypnotic and spectral new album All My People, which we described earlier this month as "gorgeous, hazy, distant-but-intimate dream pop that at times recalls a more bucolic Grouper". Get lost in the record below, and pick up the limited white vinyl 12" here (1 copy left as of this posting!), or purchase the regular vinyl edition directly from Maria at one of her upcoming shows, or at your local (online) record store:
Malmö, Sweden group Death and Vanilla share the haunted opening track from their forthcoming LP Are You A Dreamer?, premiering here today with our highest recommendation for fans of Mazzy Star, Broadcast, and Twin Peaks...
We've been entranced for weeks by the title track from Galway, Ireland artist Maria Somerville's forthcoming self-released debut LP All My People, an eerie, vaguely foreboding lullaby that Maria says was influenced as much by experimental, ambient, and club music as it was by traditional Irish folk ballads...
Toronto's Linnea Siggelkow aka Ellis shares the prismatic video for one of the emotional highlights from her lovely 2018 debut EP The Fuzz, soon to get a much-deserved, proper vinyl release via Fat Possum. Video directed by Andy Friesen + Linnea Siggelkow. Watch below, look out for Ellis down in Austin at SXSW in March, and pre-order the record on limited coke bottle green vinyl here.
New Zealand group French For Rabbits share their lovely and poignant new single, taken from their forthcoming LP, out early next year via our friends at Muscle Beach Records. "I wanted to make you feel as hollow as I felt, I wanted to make you feel as sorry as hell", sighs a heartbroken Brooke Singer, her dreamy voice softening the cutting lament with a serene, wintry wistfulness for the way things were, and a stoic resignation that they'll never be the same...