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Out on 2LP/CD/digital April 26, Someone Like Me is a humanity-reminding suite of miracle moments that unites real people in the pursuit of a meaningful connection. Taping their lived experience in economic studios in quiet English counties, Pacific Northwest woodland retreats and the big city bustle of Sydney and Los Angeles, these kindred spirits rendered sheer beauty in the process. Custom pressed folk songs of love, loss and the lord saviour. 

Illuminating minor works from seasoned players such as former Syndicate Of Sound chart-topper Sharkey and late-era Canned Heat lynchpin James Thornbury, the collection simultaneously honours the fleeting amateurism of hobby musicians. With their one shot at tangible vinyl, freshman Lynne Ann Kingan realised her loose bubblegum rocker on campus time, while U.S. Navy recruit Fred Potts cut his unconditionally serene ballad remotely stationed on a Spanish naval base. Spartan production continues to reign with Jon Betmead’s hair-raising gospel, howling into infinite space, and Goldrust’s stripped back garden hymn.

Throughout the hour-long reflection, faith has an intermittent yet revelatory presence, most overtly with the divine choral soul of Seventh-day Adventist quartet Remnant. More subtly, Gary Ramey and Jim Kennedy both turned to song in their spiritual quests, offering their all to a universal power. An irrefutable compilation cornerstone, the National Office For Black Catholics showcased Charles Murphy’s lionhearted account of the Black experience at a 1971 concert. Five years earlier, high school seniors The Superwomen would use their hauntingly angelic harmonies to address racial inequity with a breathless take on ‘Lowlands’.

Reaching the furthest corners, Someone Like Me secures the inaugural licence of three homespun masterpieces. Discovered by fluke in the digital haystacks of Youtube and Soundcloud, Jim Huxley’s bedroom pop earworm melds peacefully into Charlie Webster’s synthesized reverie. Meanwhile, Hollywood’s John Agostino introduces us to the bizarre world of tax scam records, with the artist only now learning that his tender psych-folk demos were leaked via a 1977 bootleg.

Compiled and lovingly restored by armchair digger Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring/The Green Child), Someone Like Me pays due service to seventeen rarefied journals of truth and devotion. Adorned with visual artist Chris Fallon’s figure and flora dream extractions, the uniting songbook is further detailed by expansive track-by-track liner notes and a forward from San Franciscan poet Rod Roland.

Charles Murphy - The Foot That's Holding Me Down (ES031)

Scab

Scab (feat. TYSON)

The phenomenon known as déjà entendu occurs when a person believes they've heard something before, even though it's entirely new. You can think of it as the auditory equivalent of déjà vu. This peculiar illusion has been a defining trait of Ensemble Entendu since its inception—and now, for the first time in five years, we have the pleasure of experiencing it once again.

'Reckless Mechanical Anthems, Vol. 4.' out June 20, 2025
Mastered by Phil Moffa at Butcha Sound
Artwork by Celia Hollander: "Hot Heads" [2022]

Hot Heads

Could Heaven Ever Be Like This (Instrumental)

In anniversary of profound love, joy, and creativity - Chelsea and Emmett present Chem Radio, "Solstice Hymns", a long format mix of our favorite tunes. An hour of energy and flight through the coziest of clouds and greenest mountains. Blankets of red and shapes of soft corners. We hope you enjoy. 

Tracklist: 
Dean Blunt, Inga Copeland - 8
a.s.o., Alias Error - My Baby's Got It Out for Me
Tin Star - Destruction
Moin - I'm Really Flagging (or I Trusted You)
BbyMutha - sheesh battle
The Roches - Losing True
Mess Esque - Crow's Ash Tree
Carmine - Mary Mary So Contrary
Ivy - Worry About You
deer park, Ivy Knight - Clear Sky Rain
Scribble - Mother of Pearl
Gorillaz, Space Monkeyz - Bañana Baby
Moin - X.U.Y.
Kassie Krut - United
Ben Watt - North Marine Drive
Calvin LeCompte - Reservations at Red Rose

Solstice Hymns - 20.6.2025

L'Accident de piano

Magalie Postlude

Bandcamp

Ava Luna - "Frame Of Us"

Everlasting

ART WINGMAN  it`s got to be sharp

Don't look back
Don't look back
Don't look back
Don't look back


Skin tastes of thunder
Mouth full of tar
He said the sea forgives love
I test it nightly
Salt on the cheek
When we sleep, we dissolve
With the air, can't take
All I wanted was sound
And the world gave me pressure


The pure breaks like glass and dreamlike footsteps melt to smoke
I'm a soul with no middle
I breathe it in like guilt
If I'm smaller than forgive
Let me drown politely
If I'm bigger than grieve
Then let me in softly
We dissolve with the air, can't reach
Only sound, only part
Only you

What a storm
I still am

Don't Look Back

Arc in Round Remix LP, release date Feb 26th.  Includes remixes of AiR's self-titled LP and two previously-unreleased Arc in Round songs.

Solstice Hymns - 20.6.2025

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