Julie Byrne + Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Love’s Refrain
Video by Julie Bryne + Thea and Lydia Kegler:
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Jess Williamson – Wind on Tin
A modern West Coast-meets-Texas classic from Jess Williamson's new album Sorceress, coming in May on crystal ball colored vinyl via Mexican Summer...
premiere: CMON – ZOO
Psyched to premiere the new single from Josh da Costa + Jamen Whitelock, aka CMON, taken from the duo's excellent new record Confusing Mix Of Nations, coming in April on Mexican Summer.
Jessica Pratt – Poly Blue
Jessica Pratt shares another intoxicatingly gorgeous highlight from her brilliant new record Quiet Signs, coming in February 2019 on Mexican Summer. Listen below + pre-order the record on limited white vinyl here.
video: Jessica Pratt - This Time Around
The always enchanting Jessica Pratt makes her long-awaited return with the pensive, sepia-toned first single from her incredibly beautiful and haunting new album Quiet Signs, coming early next year on Mexican Summer/City Slang. Video directed by Laura-Lynn Petrick:
premiere: Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – A Song of Summer
Prolific experimental multi-instrumentalist Jefre Cantu-Ledesma shares a blissed-out track from his majestic forthcoming LP On the Echoing Green, out soon via Mexican Summer. Cantu-Ledesma says that the record "...feels like spring – things coming alive, blooming, emerging from winter,” and the billowy, 10-minute-long journey "A Song of Summer" is an intensely emotional and swooning
Tonstartssbandht – Sorcerer
Tonstartssbandht shares the title track from their forthcoming LP Sorcerer, out March 24th on Mexican Summer:
Ariel Pink & Weyes Blood - Tears on Fire
Like-minded West Coast artists/dream team Ariel Pink & Weyes Blood share a dramatic prog-folk journey from their new collaborative EP Myths 002, composed and captured last year "under the mystic lights of Marfa, Texas", and featuring a beautifully eerie song about a vampire ("Morning After"), plus covers of tracks from The Sisters and Sad Lovers and Giants (the latter featu
premiere: hear the soaring title track from Tamaryn’s new LP Cranekiss
Tamaryn continues her subtle but striking evolution into ethereal dance-pop goddess/badass on "Cranekiss", the shimmering, sky-scraping title track from her forthcoming LP, an immediately familiar jam that would have held its own in on MTV in 1986 alongside the Cure, Cocteau Twins, Madonna, Depeche Mode, and other immortal pop heroes of the time...