Raw Plastic-Waiting Till Summer EP (2021)

Country: Poland
Genre: Alt. Rock, Garage Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Lo-Fi, Synth Pop
Label: New Morality Zine 
Tracks: 4
Length: 11.0'

Raw Plastic is a two piece band from Poznan, Poland who formed in 2020.  Raw Plastic play a killer style of music that incorporates elements of Alt. Rock, Garage Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, and lo-fi synth pop within their sound.  Musically, Raw Plastic can loosely compared to bands such as Big Bite, Wavves, Cloud Nothings, Neaux, and other like-minded bands.  Since forming in 2020, Raw Plastic have released a two song promo EP in December of 2020.  Waiting Till Summer is the band's debut EP, which was released via New Morality Zine on March 17th, 2021.  On Waiting Till Summer, Raw Plastic offer up four tracks of hazy and fuzzed out sounding lo-fi alt. rock, garage rock, indie rock, indie pop, and synth pop.  Overall, Waiting Till Summer makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed.  Highly recommended!  Enjoy!

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(AU) Katie Dey-mydata LP (2020)

Country: Australia
Genre: Indie Pop, Electronic, Experimental
Label: Run For Cover
Tracks: 12
Length: 37.10'

Katie Dey is an experimental pop artist from Melbourne, Australia who began creating music in 2014, from the looks of things.  Katie Dey composes a style of music that incorporates elements of indie pop and experimental lo-fi electro pop within her sound.  Since starting out in 2014, Katie Dey has released a seven song EP titled asdfasdf in April of 2015, a seventeen song LP titled Flood Network in August of 2016, and a ten song LP titled Solipsisters in May of 2019.  mydata is Katie Dey's latest full-length LP, which was released via Run For Cover records on July 24th, 2020.  On mydata, Katie Dey offers up twelve tracks of lo-fi experimental electronic indie pop.  Overall, mydat makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed.  Highly recommended!  Enjoy!

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(U.S.) Spice-S/T LP (2020)

Country: USA
Genre: Post Punk, Punk, Alt. Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop
Label: Dais Records
Tracks: 9
Length: 23.40'

Spice is a six piece band from California who formed in 2019, from the looks of things.  Spice features members of Ceremony, so going on that alone, you know you're in for something truly special.  Spice play a killer style of music that incorporates elements of post punk, punk, alt. rock, indie rock, and indie pop within their sound.  Musically, Spice can be loosely compared to bands such as J Church, Jawbreaker, The Wipers, Cloud Nothings, Culture Abuse, Creative Adult, and other like-minded bands.  This is the band's debut LP, which was released via Dais records on July 17th, 2020.  On their self-titled debut, Spice offer up nine tracks of moody, tense, yet slightly melodic sounding post punk, punk, alt. rock, indie rock, and indie pop.  Overall, Spice's debut LP makes for an amazing listen and definitely should not be missed.  Highly recommended!  Enjoy!

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(U.S.) Choir Boy-Gathering Swans LP (2020)

Country: USA
Genre: Dream Pop, Indie Pop, Synth Pop, New Wave
Label: Dais Records
Tracks: 10
Length: 39.20'

Choir Boy is a four piece band from Salt Lake City, Utah who formed in 2016.  Choir Boy play a light and dreamy style of music that incorporates elements of 80's influenced dream pop, indie pop, synth pop, and new wave within their sound.  Musically, Choir Boy can be loosely compared to bands such as Beach House, Black Marble, Boy Harsher, Maxband, Anne, Neon Indian, and other like-minded bands.  Since forming in 2016, Choir Boy have released a nine song LP titled Passive With Desire in October of 2016, a two song EP titled Sunday Light in October of 2017, a five song Part Time Punks Sessions EP in March of 2018, a digital single titled Dark Room in September of 2018, and a digital single titled Nites Like This in October of 2019.  Gathering Swans is the band's latest full-length LP, which was released via Dais records on May 8th, 2020.  On Gathering Swans, Choir Boy offer up ten tracks of bright and dreamy dream pop, indie pop, synth pop, and new wave.  Overall, Gathering Swans makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed.  Highly recommended!  Enjoy!

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Mount Eerie - Now Only (2018)

Rel. Date: March 16, 2018
Format: 12''
Origin: Anacortes, Washington (USA)
Genre: Experimental Indie Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Label: P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd.

               




Mount Eerie is a solo project by Phil Elverum from Anacortes, Washington which he started in 1997 under the name the Microphones. Since 2003 his project is known under the name Mount Eerie. 'Now Only' is the follow up to Mount Eerie's critically acclaimed album 'A Crow Looked At Me' released in march 2017. His style is a powerful, beautiful but sad mix of experimental Indie Pop and singer/songwriter stuff. 'Now Only' will be released on 12'' vinyl and in digital format through Phil Elverum's own label P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. on march 16, 2018. Highly recommended for everyone who's also into slowed-down and beautiful dreamy music.! Enjoy.!!


Artist profile:
Phil Elverum is Mount Eerie. The 33 year-old multi-instrumentalist has played in other bands, and worked as a producer, but remains best known for this solo project, which began under the name the Microphones in 1997. In 2003, he renamed the project Mount Eerie (and added an 'e' to his last name, Elvrum) after returning from a trip to Norway, where he lived alone in a remote cabin for a winter. 'Mount Eerie' specifically refers to the mountain on Fidalgo Island, an island an hour and change north of Seattle where you’ll also find Elverum’s lifelong Anacortes, Washington hometown.

To date, his most critically acclaimed (and popular) album is the Microphones’ 2001 epic 'The Glow Pt. 2'. The first official Mount Eerie album — following the Microphones’ final 2003 full-length, also called 'Mount Eerie' - is 2005’s 'No Flashlight'. It was followed by 2007’s 'Mount Eerie pts. 6 & 7', a 132-page hardcover book of his photography, packaged with a 10” picture disk. In early 2009, the journals he kept and drawings he scribbled in Norway were released as a 144-page hardcover book called 'Dawn'. It came with 16 color photo cards and a CD of songs he wrote while living there.

Regardless of the moniker, the various collections include interlocking themes, references to earlier works, and are marked by Elverum’s distinctive naturalist self-recorded lo-fi analog sound that mixes a whispered, gentle voice which can also yell and bellow, with various strains of sound: His work can be delicately spare or booming and ambitiously layered and noisy, often in the same song. Lyrically, he focuses on memory, first-person storytelling, myth, naturalism, the everyday as sacred, and a sense of place (in and out of Washington State), among other related things. In addition to his extravagantly packaged albums Elverum has released self-published books (which he illustrates or fills with his photographs) via his own label, P.W. Elverum & Sun Ltd. – Brandon Stosuy


Mount Eerie - Now Only (2018) // (256) 

Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me (2017)