in the end

“Someday?” channels the energetic pulse of UK indie with heavy, guitar-driven layers and raw, emotive undertones. Blending jangly riffs and a punchy DIY spirit, this track captures a blend of yearning and resilience, echoing the timeless charm of British indie anthems. With an atmospheric edge and heartfelt delivery, “Someday?” invites listeners to reflect, feel, and lose themselves in its melodic waves—a perfect soundtrack for late-night city walks and dreaming beyond the ordinary.

Someday?

This Is The Song

Free download at bit.ly/temporaryep

Coming off the heels of this past summer’s Imago LP, we are pleased to announce Lost Film’s new EP, Temporary. Led by Jimmy Hewitt, the band’s sole permanent member, Lost Film is the minimalist – and in this iteration – lo-fi guitar pop project that followed Hewitt’s now defunct band, Orca Orca.

Unlike the lush, full-band recordings of Imago, the Temporary EP brings Jimmy back to the place he feels most comfortable as an artist, and put simply, where it all began – isolated, and alone at the microphone.

Melodic and often times dreamy, the instrumentation takes a much more tepid approach to the guitar-based indie pop Jimmy has developed as Lost Film. For one, it’s a lot less "pop" in the bombastic and hook-laden way you would routinely expect, but instead explores a more nuanced and introspective approach to writing that is still very obviously informed by, and at it’s core, pop music.

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Lost Film – Temporary

From their debut album "Deluxe" - available July 8th, 2016 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Omni "Wednesday Wedding" (Trouble In Mind Records)

東京を拠点に活動するシューゲイズ／インディー・ポップ・バンドThe OXsのデビュー・アルバム『CANDY OF YOUTH』のリリースが決定した。北欧／UKのドリーム・ポップ／シューゲイズ・サウンドから多大な影響を受けながらも、最近のUSシーン、Captured TracksやSlumberland周辺のアーティストからのサウンドも彷彿させる。疾走感溢れるフレーズに美しいノイズが重なるキラー・チューンの連続。全6曲が送る最高のギター・ポップ・アルバムが完成した。

CANDY OF YOUTH

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The OXs - I Feel You

Patterns

One of the first iteration of Yumi on the Shore had these overly sweet guitar leads and Jpop inspired synth melodies before becoming what it is now. I've found these old files and thought it would be fun to rebuild the song with the diabetes inducing riffs.

Yumi on the Shore (Sweet Version)

Duende

Only A Shadow (The Cleaners From Venus cover)

Full album out on February 7th, 2020
https://ittakestimerecords.bandcamp.com/album/waterfowl

The songs that we return to throughout our life are often, ironically, songs that we come to in a period of change: melodies that soundtrack love lost or direction found, lyrical fragments that invite us to process, a vitality that pushes us with confidence into unfamiliar territory. Frankie valet write those kinds of songs. Out 2/7 via It Takes Time Records, their new record Waterfowl is a collection that brims with eagerness and invention, that confronts both the clamour of youthful confusion and the stillness of nostalgia—in other words, it’s the sound of four friends growing together.

Frankie valet is Jack Elliott-Higgins on guitar and vocals, Felix Nelson on guitar and vocals, Gram Tolish on drums, and Alison Setili on bass and vocals. After a period of rotating through members, the lineup coalesced around the time the band recorded 2018’s Stop Apologizing, a charming and often understated document of a young band in transition.

Waterfowl, on the other hand, is something else entirely—an ambitious showpiece for a band simultaneously hitting their stride and exploring their range. Contemplative slowcore, MBV-indebted fuzz, post-punk propulsion, and good old-fashioned guitar heroics find a home on this record, often in the same song. The compositions are as unafraid to explore the corners of a placid groove as they are to veer off unexpectedly; mid-album highlight “Soft Skin” perhaps best captures this perfect blend of patience and restlessness, and the effect is something like Yo La Tengo with unmedicated ADHD.

The record is also a fitting companion to Frankie valet’s combustible live show, translating the band’s energy into a warm, lived-in mid-fi zone perfectly suited to songs that embrace dynamics in both decibel and feeling. These four perform with the urgency of a group that knows first hand the actualizing power of a basement show, and Waterfowl is smart to preserve that sense of purpose.

It’s a purpose born of their fertile, sometimes overlooked St. Louis scene, the accidental orbit of friendship and inspiration from which they emerged (Jack met Felix at a show in 2016 when Felix, only 19, asked Jack to buy him a beer). Likewise, the band’s process reflects the creative crossfire of any healthy scene—they write collaboratively, sharing lyrical duties among the vocalists and bringing musical ideas to practice in their infancy, for the group to flesh out together. The words and music reverberate with their communal origins.

“Everyone is speechless from afar,” goes the refrain to tone-setting album opener “Nakid.” As a negative formulation of Frankie valet’s power, it’s a perfect lyric: Waterfowl is a record that invites closeness as an antidote to voicelessness, that celebrates shared growth in all its thrills and embarrassments. And best of all, it’s just the first step. - Nathan Tucker

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