…doesn’t it seem like lovers with hubris, short-sightedness, and a lack of sentimentality are the ones most likely to get divorced — or, if you prefer, the quickest to get divorced? And yet, whatever the circumstances were in that scenario, fictional or otherwise — centrifugal force Mary Claire proves on their debut that they are an outlier. The musician also makes the very convincing points that the power of love is much, much stronger than statistical data; far more precious than the way we carelessly bandy about the word in our degraded and thus devalued lexicon.
Slake have carved out a wry sub-sub-subgenre called “lesbian doom folk.” The indie band hails from somewhere in the Bay Area, but it’s unclear exactly where, since Slake’s…
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The Worm Moon is the fifth full length LP from New Hampshire’s 
There is a specific kind of bravery required to be “post-cool.” In an industry obsessed with the frantic energy of the new or the polished artifice of the established, Bristol’s 
Time felt a little different for Australian indie band 
The sad truth about memory is that it’s inherently unreliable: when you access it, you’re not remembering the event itself so much as the last time you recalled it. It’s this malleability of history that 
Italian-born, France-located artist, 
As Theo Bleak, Glasgow-based musician Katie Lynch makes delicately woven folk songs and plush bedroom pop, fashioned with shivering vocals. She released her debut EP Fragments in 2022, quickly followed by a run of EPs — For Seasons, Illiad, Pain — and demo collection Heaven.Wav. Most recently, she released Bad Luck Is Two Yellow Flowers in May. With that prolific momentum, Lynch had planned on making her debut album this year. That didn’t happen. Grief had other plans. Instead, she made Bargaining: a collection of 14 haunted, unpolished tracks that snapshot her reckoning with loss and mental isolation.
The debut album from Lloyd and the Leftovers joins the recent wave of Australian-flavoured Americana. Hailing from Walyalup on the west coast, their sound leans as much towards indie-tinged folk as it does any strand of country. Opener ‘Fruit and Wine’ is the closest the record gets to a strumming singalong, while ‘Kaarta Koomba’ is as near as it comes to a rocker – though neither track quite sets the tone for what follows.
Witches, Templars, gargoyles — all are roll called in “Town of the Castle,” a jaunty medieval pop song that plays like an overture to 
Lauded on release as Stornoway’s most expansive and confident work, 
If you have never listened to or heard of 
It’s fair to say the past decade has brought some challenges for Swedish singer-songwriter Marlene Oak. Ten years ago, she got the difficult diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder Type 2, then just a few years ago she experienced an episode of severe psychosis, something she described as “terrifying”, leading her to question her own reality and even fearing there was a demon inside her.
Not much is known about the elusive Dove Ellis, but we do have three concrete facts.
After lending her versatile skills on stringed instruments (guitar, charango, violin, koto, etc.) to the alternative music scene of Iceland for some time, 
…a fully remastered digital version. The digital release include the bonus track “St. Charlene,” a tune from the ‘Rabbit Songs’ era that previously was found only on a hard-to-find EP.
After two decades fronting Editors and releasing two albums with Smith & Burrows, Tom Smith is finally stepping into solo territory with