An indie playlist featuring the best Indie pop / rock tracks from February 2022. Full playlist at <a href="http://www.birp.fm/">www.birp.fm</a> // Updated monthly, so save your favorites!  Indie, Bedroom Pop, Lofi, Surf Rock, etc.

Indie Playlist • BIRP! February 2022

Jason Quever has been releasing timeless dream pop as Papercuts since 2004; his new album "Past Life Regression" is a journey into the dreamier reaches of psychedelic folk-pop that digs deep into influences as wide-ranging as The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Spiritualized, Echo & The Bunnymen, Leonard Cohen and late 60s pop of various flavors. Jason's songcraft, arranging and production are immaculate as always, reflecting his broad experience and enlivened by his move back home to the San Francsico Bay Area. It's remarkable that after more than 15 years he's writing his best songs and in "Past Life Regression" has made his finest record. Gorgeous, perfectly constructed chamber pop for the very unusual times we're living through.

Past Life Regression

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Papercuts - Lodger

I Remember

Stream

Maybe Something Cool Will Happen

Walk Away

CAPO 7

HOLD MY HAND

Head Talk

internet friends

Breathe

Happy To Be Wrong

№1 Acolyte

Hatred Is a Passion Of Theirs

Disaster Artist

[Intro]
You're so calm when you're unraveling, dear,
You're a dream when you're not listening, dear—
I'm fading.

[Verse 1]
You're the only one who swears there's nothing
Left to feel in this connection—
That's your grand confession.
You're a last kiss, a static echo,
The applause after affection—
It defines you, too.

[Verse 1 – Shift]
You can't pretend while I'm away
That you won't play back every day
The ways we lost control.
But don't reach out—I'm
Residing in a silence
That won't take your name anymore.

[Pre-Chorus]
Something to post,
Something to prove,
Nothing feels close
When there's nothing to lose.

[Chorus]
Sleep tight, streetlight—
We've got two hundred eyes that saw us last night.
Sleep tight, streetlight—
Your lips were saying love, but your eyes said goodbye.
Sleep tight, spotlight—
Pretend it's right, pretend it's right,
Pretend tonight.

[Verse 2]
You're the only version of my fiction
That I almost believed—through
All the staged conviction.
You're a past fever, last teaser—
I'm scrubbing off the preview
Of how we once aligned.

[Bridge]
Don't try to find me—
I'm parked between regret and reinvention.
That kiss on 4th and Vine—
It played like cinema,
But it meant decline.

[Final Chorus – Reprise]
Sleep tight, streetlight—
We've got two hundred eyes that saw us last night.
Sleep tight, streetlight—
Your lips were saying love, but your eyes said goodbye.
Sleep tight, spotlight—
Pretend it's right, pretend it's right,
Pretend tonight.
Tonight.

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"Public Display of Affection" is a slow unraveling of love’s theater, where every glance, every kiss, is staged for an audience that doesn’t see the cracks. Beneath the city’s neon haze and under the judgment of a hundred passing eyes, the song exposes how connection can be both intimate and performative—an art form of holding together what’s already falling apart. Through brooding baritone delivery, shimmering guitars, and shadows of synth, it becomes a cinematic confession of the quiet lies we tell in public to protect what’s already broken in private.

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Genre: Post-Punk Revival / Cinematic Indie Rock
Key: A Major
BPM: 127
Time Signature: 4/4

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Artist: Kareem Tyler 
https://www.instagram.com/tylercraftsart

© 2025 Kareem Tyler. All Rights Reserved. 

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Public Display of Affection

All parts written and played by Dust Bunnys
Produced, mixed and mastered by Dust Bunnys

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