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@theneedledropnews shares the new single from @gem

@theneedledropnews shares the new single from @gemmagroovs "See Me" "...a gathering rush of shoegazey guitars and ratatat, jazz-inspired drumming."
Their new album Be About It arrives May 1st!

"Spacemoth’s “Do We Exist” sounds like someo

"Spacemoth’s “Do We Exist” sounds like someone took a happy pill and sat down with a Fisher-Price orchestra: playful, open, and sunlit. Tinny clangs, spaceship buzzes, and a bass line that bounces like a plush yo-yo give it a toybox charm." @stereogum on the latest from @ssspacemoth!

Yessssss so excited you love this song @willowsmit

Yessssss so excited you love this song @willowsmith!!!

just got hip to this new @ssspacemoth song the other day & it's been tickling my brain sooooo good 🧠🎼✨❤️‍🔥💕 go have a listen!

SONG: DO WE EXIST?
@greenwayrecords

"A guitar solo peals, the drums crash, and for a m

"A guitar solo peals, the drums crash, and for a moment, all of Morris’ lingering doubts and questions—city and country, youth and adulthood, undying dreams and monthly realities—resolve themselves, in a bracing thunderclap." @greenejayson reviews the lovely new album from @sluice.ig! Out now via @mtnlaurelrecordingco

Head over to @bigtakeovermag to read a great inter

Head over to @bigtakeovermag to read a great interview between Chip Midnight and @sluice.ig's Justin Morris, about their new album 'Companion,' out today on @mtnlaurelrecordingco!

https://bigtakeover.com/interviews/interview-justin-morris-sluice

On the new single from @styrofoamwinos "Pearls": I

On the new single from @styrofoamwinos "Pearls": It’s a love song that operates like the poem that inspired it—finding something luminous inside the ordinary, then holding it up to the light just long enough for everyone in the room to see it shimmer. —Casey Epstein-Gross @pastemagazine
Any River arrives June 19th on @dearliferecs 🏞️

@rosyoverdrive reviews the new album from @helicop

@rosyoverdrive reviews the new album from @helicopterleaves! "Sabrina Nickels is a whirlwind; this feeling is greatly enhanced by “It Really Never Did”, a starry-eyed power pop opening track that’s as good as any guitar pop I’ve heard this year." Out tomorrow 3/27 via @noyesrecords

"...lead single "Pearls" boogies at a lackadaisica

"...lead single "Pearls" boogies at a lackadaisical gait that evokes Courtney Barnett, with a wistful earnestness that reminds me of Ratboys." @stereogum shares the album announce and new single from Nashville's @styrofoamwinos!
Any River arrives 6/19 via @dearliferecs

https://stereogum.com/2493415/styrofoam-winos-announce-new-album-any-river-hear-pearls/music

"Sluice seem to have picked up where Radial Gate l

"Sluice seem to have picked up where Radial Gate left-off, searching for meaning and finding it not in material good or reaching the next step on the ladder to fame, but in the journey, with your companions, and your creative spirits, standing by your side." @for_the_rabbits on @sluice.ig!
Their new album 'Companion' arrives March 27th via @mtnlaurelrecordingco ⚡️

Beautiful review by @joshterry of @natalie.jane.hi

Beautiful review by @joshterry of @natalie.jane.hill's 'Hopeful Woman', out now on @dearliferecs!

"Throughout, every note, arrangement flourish, and lyric is intentional and near-flawless. It’s a record that is overwhelmingly gorgeous on first impression and masterful on each subsequent listen."
RIYL: Sandy Denny, Karen Dalton, timeless songwriting

UK fans can catch her live on tour this May + June supporting @raylamontagne ⚡️

https://open.substack.com/pub/joshhterry/p/natalie-jane-hill-dagmar-zuniga-symbol-soup-doll-spirit-vessel?r=4hg93x&utm_medium=ios

@stereogum shares the new video from @thomasdollba

@stereogum shares the new video from @thomasdollbaum "Dozen Roses", off his upcoming new LP 'Birds of Paradise' arriving 5/22 via @dearliferecs!

For his sophomore album Birds Of Paradise, Dollbaum assembled a band that includes Lenderman, multi-instrumentalist Josh Halper, and the Convenience's Nick Corson. They learned and recorded the tracks with producer/engineer Clay Jones over the course of four days at Dial Back Sound in Water Valley, Mississippi.

Happy Album Release Day to @natalie.jane.hill! @re

Happy Album Release Day to @natalie.jane.hill! @relixmag states: "Natalie Jane Hill’s Hopeful Woman is incisive, wild, fullhearted, understanding and lined with storytelling so transportive to cast the listener out of their own experience, and carefully return them with a new gratitude for all life’s wonderful confusion and clarity."
Available now via @dearliferecs

Head over to @magnetmagazine and watch the new vid

Head over to @magnetmagazine and watch the new video from @sluice.ig for "Zillow" (featuring a cameo from @for_fust's Aaron Dowdy!)!
Their new LP 'Companion' arrives 3/27 via @mtnlaurelrecordingco

Sweet Gravity EP‘s latest single “Burst” (fr

Sweet Gravity EP‘s latest single “Burst” (from Chicago's @snowcuffs) sees the band pairing shimmering and swirling guitar textures, a forcefully driving rhythm section and remarkably catchy, rousingly anthemic hooks with ethereal vocals. Sonically, “Burst” seemingly nods at 120 Minutes-era MTV shoegaze and alternative rock — but with a decidedly modern sensibility. And at its core is a song and a narrator struggling with crippling ambivalence and self-doubt." - @william_ruben_helms

New single out today from Chicago's @snowcuffs! Pr

New single out today from Chicago's @snowcuffs! Premiering over at @floodmagazine:
The transfixing “In Blue” marked the project’s first single, and today we’re getting a follow-up tune titled “Burst” that sounds a bit tenser, with more disconnect between the wailing, reverb-drenched guitars and the gentle lilt of the vocals. As the band explains, the track is about feeling overwhelmed by “all the possibilities of identity,” or the struggle to know which life path to follow. “‘Burst’ is inspired by the fig tree metaphor in The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath,” the band notes. “The fig tree represents all the different lives the protagonist could live. Each fig is a future—artist, wife, intellectual, mother—and the tragedy is that she wants all of them. But by refusing to choose, the figs rot and fall. Ambivalence isn’t neutral, it’s destructive.”

Cub releases Come Out Come Out 30th Anniversary Ed

Cub releases Come Out Come Out 30th Anniversary Edition via @mintrecords

"Cub’s second album, following the EP-summing-plus compilation Betti-Cola, sharpened the attack, adding rupturing drums and guitar to the all-female band’s twee-pop sound. Indeed, you can only really apply the three-piece’s signature descriptor “cuddlecore” if you mostly focus on the vocals. And even there, the sweetness wraps around disruptive lyrics. Sure, this is the band famous for playing shows in their pajamas, but their adorable-ness masks some pretty jagged edges. - @dustedforreal

"Beadie" the latest single from @sluice.ig include

"Beadie" the latest single from @sluice.ig included in @pastemagazine's 5 Songs You Need to Hear This Week!
@mtnlaurelrecordingco

"Sluice is back—and with a stellar first single, to boot. “Beadie” unfolds like a memory you can’t quite date, its slow, ambling groove gathers weight until distortion seeps in beneath Justin Morris’ voice like thawed ice water."

It's Sluice Time! Head over to @thelineofbestfit a

It's Sluice Time!
Head over to @thelineofbestfit and watch the video for "Beadie", the lead single off @sluice.ig's upcoming new album 'Companion' - arriving March 27th @mtnlaurelrecordingco

“I think that if not the space of the room then definitely the location, being out in the country is important to the song”, says Justin Morris, the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist from Sluice. He is on the road with US band Fust, calling from a service station between shows in London and Bristol. It is fitting to talk about upcoming single “Beadie” whilst Morris is away from home. The song evokes a sense of stillness against the movement of life, a feeling of time moving forward whilst you stand still and try to take stock of what has, and continues, to happen."

New single + video out today from @natalie.jane.hi

New single + video out today from @natalie.jane.hill!
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“I Thought Love Meant” the second single from Hopeful Woman is out today!
I started writing this song almost three years ago. Perhaps at the time I thought I was having this “a-ha!” moment, thinking I was finally understanding *love*. But the funny thing about love is that i’m always trying to make sense of it. I imagine it as this little glow that sort of moves around…shaping and expanding, shrinking or hiding itself again and again, all to my own ever changing self. Maybe i’m getting better at accepting the mystery of it. More to say on all of that…but for now, watch this beautiful video @spncklly and I and crew made with the ephemeral tundra swans. I’m so happy with how this one turned out. Somehow it all fell into place exactly how it should. 🪽

Directed and edited by Spencer Kelly (@spncklly)
Director of Photography: Gray McClamrock (@grandma_camera)
Colorist: Kyle Messina (@messina.color)

Song credits:
Produced and Engineered by Jason Chronis (@jasonchronis) in Lockhart, TX
Piano overdubs engineered by Scott McMicken at @pressonrecords
Mixed by Adrian Olsen (@montroserecording)
Mastered by Jack Doutt (@jackdoutt)

Guitar and vocals: Natalie Jane Hill
Organ, piano and flute: Mat Davidson (@twainband)
Bass: Jason Chronis (@jasonchronis)
Percussion: Austin Vaughn (@austin_vaughn__ )

Hopeful Woman comes out March 6th on Dear Life Records. Pre-ordering the album on bandcamp is the best thing you could do!
🩷❤️🤍 thanks always for letting me share these tender songs
Nat

Out today! New single "Never Left Me" from @natali

Out today! New single "Never Left Me" from @natalie.jane.hill - head over to @klofmag and see the video as well
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Here she is ~ the first single “Never Left Me” off of my new record Hopeful Woman has arrived. Out in full on March 6th on Dear Life Records. Music video directed and edited by Spencer Kelly @spncklly (thanks for meeting me in NYC to help fulfill my big city music video dream).

This new collection truly feels the most *me* and I couldn’t be more proud of what my friends and I made. Hopeful Woman is really just the beginning of something I’ve been trying to encompass for a long time.

And lastly, i’m going on tour overseas for the first time in May! I’ll be opening for @raylamontagne in Ireland and the UK and I can’t quite believe this one… incredibly honored and grateful for this experience. Still pinching myself. More on that soon.

Guitar and vocals: Natalie Jane Hill
Pedal Steel: Mat Davidson (@twainband)
Bass: Jason Chronis (@jasonchronis)
Percussion: Austin Vaughn (@austin_vaughn__ )
Produced and engineered by Jason Chronis
Mixed by Adrian Olsen (@montroserecording)
Mastered by Jack Doutt (@jackdoutt)

Album Cover Painting by Bobbye Fermie (@bobbyefermie)
Album layout design by Emily Elhaj (@cliff_em_all)
Press photo by Charlie Boss (@chajbo)

Thank you all for listening and for patiently sticking around thru my hiatus. A million more thank you’s to come 🩷