🥂It’s that time of year, we revisit all our 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ releases. It started off with a “High.” releasing “Come Back Down” (yellow vinyl & digital). A Stereogum Band to Watch  “High. prioritize melodies over cascades of sound and words over pedals, even if those words are delivered sparingly, within a sonic sheen.” and Consequence Best Albums so far… “The quartet uses a healthy amount of reverb to casually drift in and out of a dream state, made all the more entrancing by dueling vocals from Christian Castan and Bridget Bakie.” They cover the full spectrum of shoegaze,noisegaze, grungegaze and canoe-gaze.

Last winter Punchlove dropped dual singles (sublimate) & Today You Can Learn the Secret. Stereogum said “it fits a whole lot of drama into less than three minutes” and Paste Magazine noted “Punchlove started from a small bedroom project and graduated into this majorly evocative, eclectic force of guitar-piling nature”  We can't wait for new music from them in 2026!

Summer brought the dreamy textures of Singapore based BLUSH releasing "Beauty Fades, Pains Lasts Forever" (pink vinyl & digital). Stereogum  said it's “a dreamy pop-rock pleasure." Their balance of delicate melodies with waves of distortion shrouded in wistful bliss and twee sentimentality.

This fall we issued early 2000s NY shoegazer-inspired indie rock Dirty on Purpose debut album "Hallelujah Sirens" and bundled with the EP "Sleep Late for a Better Tomorrow" - remastered by Kurt Feldman, the audio is packaged as a double, seaweed colored gatefold limited vinyl release, for fans of  Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth, and the Sundays. First time on vinyl. Limited 250.

Australia's dust debut album "Sky is Falling" (purple splatter & digital) Vogue Australia described as “shards of post-punk colliding with free jazz freak-outs and shoe-gaze haze…sharpened and world-class” and Rolling Stone Australia  “a brooding, genre-blurring journey through anxiety, change, and self-discovery… Equal parts raw and reflective, the record traces a path from uncertainty to fragile peace; a haunting snapshot of a band defining who they are in real time.” dust is touring the EU and US in the new year.

Lucid Express announced their new album "Instant Comfort" out in February (yellow swirl vinyl pre-order) with the release of "Something Blue" “utterly transcendent” God is in the TV Zine, and Stereogum said "The wash of guitars on 'Something Blue' are equal parts jangly and noisy, a nice backdrop for its romantic, bittersweet lyrics”