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Montreal's Alexia Avina -- who also plays in Best Fern, the duo responsible for the dreamiest version of "Take On Me" ever -- shares the beautiful and gently cathartic new album that we badly needed right now. Betting on an Island is an ethereal experimental-folk-pop meditation, with an inviting soft-focus glow that soothes and enchants, as Avina's exquisite vocals and lush but airy inst

We're psyched to debut the devastating opening track from Chthonic, the new full-length from Austin's Julia Lucille. Julia counts two of our favorites -- Alela Diane + Sibylle Baier -- among her biggest influences, and the stunning incantation "Eternally" is every bit as disarming and lovely as the most haunting gems in that ethereal dream-folk lineage...

We briefly mentioned DÆVA's magical, lucid-dreamlike debut LP Beta Persei earlier this week, and now you can stream the record in all its softly shimmering, spectral glory below. Highly recommended for the lovelorn, fans of early Grimes, X-Files obsessives, and anyone lamenting the death of chillwave and/or witch house...

Here's a glittery, ethereal dream-pop gem from Brooklyn's Gigi Mead, aka DÆVA: "Dream" is the opening track from her beautifully vaporous, two-years-in-the-making, X-Files-inspired debut LP Beta Persei, which has provided a very welcome and chill (and even occasionally danceable) escapist vibe for us these past few nights. Beta Persei is out this week on limited glitter cassette via Furi