Whisper Thinking

Written & Produced by Tessa Rose Jackson and Darius Timmer

LYRICS
What a waste, what a shame,
Could we start this over?
Or better still, let the hill worth dying on crumble 
This black hole will swallow us whole if you let it 
It’ll break unless it bends, so let it bend
Let it bend 

For the sake of curiosity
Entertain the eerie thought with me 
Fear bangs the drum
Let it thrum, let it thrum 

Who am I to rely on a final outcome
Take a beat, let it be and breathe it out
Chorus to chorus all us souls know the cadence 
Simmer down, circle 'round, common ground 
Common ground 

Can you hold the thought up to the light? 
Can you catch the phrase and harmonise? 
Fear bangs the drum
Let it thrum, let it thrum 

Steeped in the knowledge 
That all of this will make way 
With a sweet irreverence 
The old moth to the flame 
The rush passed 
The loves last 

And the plenty bear the fruit of us
To the chain we make, the dust is dust 
Fear bangs the drum
Let it thrum, let it thrum

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CREDITS
Vocals, Guitars - Tessa Rose Jackson
Keys - Darius Timmer
Drums - Dan Huijser
Bass - Dave Wismeijer
Electric Guitar - Kevin van Moorsel
Saxophone - Jean Vernheres

Engineered by Johannes Buff
Mixed by Darius Timmer
Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios

Fear Bangs The Drum

"This adventure doesn't end here..."
Taken from the Carousel Clouds album 'Control Zed' (released 17th October 2025). A song about going to a music festival (Tramlines) with a ghost.

Some things people have said about Carousel Clouds:
“Entrancing” Steve Lamacq, BBC 6Music Recommends

“Carousel Clouds take the best bits of psych, prog and shoegaze and create concise pop songs of intense, vertiginous beauty.” Manchester Evening News

Splendour: PRS Tunecode 820440LW. ISRC UKKTX2500025.

Splendour

Taken from the forthcoming album 'Speaking in Code'.

Speaking in Code

Transmission fr. Nowhere

Venom

Premiered on Under the Radar Magazine - https://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/premiere_josaleigh_pollett_shares_new_single_radio_player

Salt Lake City-based Indie Singer-Songwriter Josaleigh Pollett will return on October 28th with “Radio Player,” an electronics-infused and Poltergeist-inspired new single. Here, Josaleigh is reunited with long-time collaborator Jordan Watko (Crowd Shy) for the first time since Jordan’s relocation to Japan, making this their first recorded output since 2023’s highly acclaimed “In the Garden, By the Weeds,” which NPR Music’s Bob Boilen featured on All Songs Considered.

Despite the distance between them, the pair opted to make their first cross-continent collaboration more ambitious and exploratory than what came before. Initially finding acclaim in 2020 with their ‘No Woman Is the Sea’ album, before going on to share bills with St. Vincent, Torres, Deep Sea Diver, DeVotchKa, Mini Trees, Hibou, and Kilby Block Party, “Radio Player” sees their sound continue to evolve. This new slowburning single merges analogue atmospherics, Indie Rock drive, and Pop melodies to create something that feels haunting, claustrophobic, and cathartic.

Speaking on their return, Josaleigh comments:

"Radio Player is a song about memory and fear, loosely based on seeing the movie Poltergeist at too young an age. It is a journey through the hallways of childhood that we leave a light on within. A pink light flickers on and beckons the listener through, releasing them changed and covered in ectoplasm five minutes later.

In true independent DIY fashion and similar to 2023's In The Garden, By The Weeds, this new song is recorded mostly at home between my Salt Lake City make-shift home studio, and Jordan's apartment in Japan. The difference this time is that we're bringing in more collaborations and new instrumentation. In addition to mixing and mastering, Nashville's Andrew Goldring helped with production and played some instruments on Radio Player, as well as being a part of the live band that played Kilby Block Party earlier this year. Radio Player really got its feet under it in a live band setting, and we tried to bring more of that to our production without losing the electronic-based production that Jordan is so fluent in. 

This is the first song we made together since Jordan moved to Japan in 2024, and instead of letting distance dampen our collaboration, we really tried to lean into the chaos and confusion of creating from different ends of different days while an ocean apart. I think a lot of that anxiety and newness mixed with the dedication of friendship drives this new music.”

Radio Player

"The Buzz" blends groovy indie rock with a sexy, late-night energy - but beneath the swagger is reflection. Written in Ramsgate, it captures the uneasy feeling of chasing a high that's lost its thrill. It's about realising the party isn't fun anymore and wanting change. For fans of Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party and Foals.

The Buzz

Once again I’ve spent too much on fireworks
Watch my hard-earned cash go up in smoke

When you see the price tag I swear that you’ll go beserk
Or at least you’ll laugh and get the joke

Still there’s nothing like the glow
Of an expensive display
Come on light the fuse again
At least that’s what a good friend would say

Pretty much the only thing that can come from this
Is the smoke that covers up the stars

But I bet you’ll pore over all of your horoscopes
Right until you’ve lived out every scar

Still there’s nothing like the glow
Of an expensive display
Come on light the fuse again, baby
At least that’s what a true friend would say

—

On this recording, CAMP STAG are:
Emily Andrews
Richard Chevin-Dooley
Ade Harrison
Tomos Hughes
Daniel Nixon
Alex Shenton

Produced by CAMP STAG.
Mastered by Thomas J Bath at UTC Studio.
Artwork by CAMP STAG.
A Northern Dream.
℗ & © 2025

Fireworks

MAGIC :::

Since we met /
I am lit / 
Up ////
In every place /
Oh to feel /
Such love //.

Since we met /
I am lit / up /
In every place /
Oh to feel / such / love ////////

*Magic without tricks //
We make six //
No dilute / 2 to get 1
We grow / truer / to / ourselves
From the mirrors //  we’re shown //

Pick up bag /
Mood shoes //
Find Trees //////
Watching / as we / learn / from / leaves ///
To let it all go 
& hold close /
to the gift //
of changing forms ////
Seasonal souls / touch roots //
To grow

*

//.

Recorded & Mixed by Simon “Ding” Archer (The Fall, PJ Harvey)
Mixed & Mastered by Sèbastien Allemand
Released by Society of Losers & 9x9 Records

This is the first single released from the debut album WHO ARE YA? out 14th Nov 
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MAGIC

“Thunder” was born from the stillness before the rain. It explores the emotional landscape between peace and chaos — where sound becomes weather, and music becomes memory. The thunder in the background is not an effect, but a voice: nature’s own percussion, echoing through the composition’s slow, unfolding melodies.


credits
releases October 31, 2025
Written & performed by Valeska Rautenberg
Mixed by Thomas Lemmer
Mastered by Ramin Tehrani

Thunder

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Already Taken is about trying to process living without somebody after they’ve chosen to leave you, and the everyday reminders they leave behind. Written with friends Sam Perry and Tom Hammond, and released via Mahogany Songs. 

Already Taken

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