Toro y Moi releases a proper version of his stellar + very vibey January 2019 dropbox/instagram tape drop Soul Trash, featuring what Chaz says are "the same songs but presented in a more hi-fi setting". Listen to the whole tape + watch the Lanéya Billingsley-directed film below, and download the new version of Soul Trash on Chaz's bandcamp.
Zone out to some dreamy, warped lo-fi deep house from Hiroyuki Tanaka, aka Charles.A.D, taken from his super limited new 熱い海 (Hot Sea) cassette, out now on Dream Raw. Warm and fuzzy hypnagogic vibes for balmy summer evenings:
Montreal's Exit Someone, a group we fell in love with almost a year ago on the strength of their wonderful debut single, follows up a great recent non-EP jam and a low-key beautiful Robert Palmer cover with their first official physical release, out today on Atelier Ciseaux...
One of our favorite records of last year is getting a limited cassette release this month, complete with a handful of unreleased tracks and alternate versions on the b-side, courtesy of Greenville, SC, tape label Plastic Response...
Taken from Melbourne group Caroline No's limited No Language cassette, a lovely collection of dreamily languid, vaguely psychedelic, and loose, often improvised bedroom pop gems that reveal themselves more with each listen. Recorded with a handheld recorder, and out now "on a hot green cassette in a hot pink case, extra special put together to be beautiful." The group apparently has another new record called Swimmers, produced by Mick Turner of Dirty Three, out soon. Listen:
We mentioned the other day that Cindy Lee (Patrick Flegel, formerly of Women) had an extremely limited new cassette release out on Vancouver label Isolated Now Waves; that tape has since sold out, and the band is now giving the record away as a free download — along with their even better Act of Tenderness LP — over on their geocities page. Listen to another haunted lullaby from MALENKOST + download the whole thing below:
Cindy Lee, the experimental pop project from former Women guitarist/singer Pat Flegel, follows up one of the best albums of 2015 with MALENKOST, an 11-song cassette release on Vancouver label Isolated Now Waves...
More from the latest round of quality releases to emerge from L.A.'s Not Not Fun camp: here's the title track from the debut cassette from Vancouver's Crystal Dorval, aka White Poppy, out now on the label...
Keep Shelly in Athens has an extremely limited tape coming soon from Japanese cassette label Sixteen Tambourines, featuring some of the songs from KSiA's debut Forest Family 12" EP In Love with Dusk, plus exclusive new track "Yellow Man...
Sleep ∞ Over alpha femme Stefanie Franciotti has a new tape out on Bathetic Records under her free-form "psych-murk" side-project moniker Raga Chrome. The label says, "It's the kind of dark-ish purple and turquoise fog that hollows out your skull and leaves it full of fairy dust and debris," so we'll go with that...