april 2021 mixtape

Best of April 2021

Dreampop - Shoegaze April 2021

The best Indie pop / rock tracks from May 2021. Full playlist at www.birp.fm // Updated monthly, so save your favorites!  Indie, Bedroom Pop, Lofi, Surf Rock, etc.

Indie Playlist • BIRP! May 2021

New & hot: Indie

sometimes

Cassette is Swiss Portraits new release that will be part of their new album "learning to swim".

Cassette

Wellwave

king of the nosebleeds

Brooklyn-based @supertastemusic share “Super Classic," the first offering from their forthcoming 'Super Classic EP’ due out later in 2021. 

Released April 7, 2021 on Casablanca Sunset Records. 

Premiere via @dancingastronaut : https://dancingastronaut.com/2021/04/premiere-supertaste-kickstart-super-classic-rollout-with-lead-single/

Stream / Download: https://smarturl.it/superclassic

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Supertaste — Super Classic

Stream 'Belladonna' : https://echoframe.fanlink.to/belladonna

 The Vancouver-based musician Echo Frame takes inspiration from all corners of the music world and swirls them into a bottomless pot of indie, soul, surf-rock, disco and more. With “Belladonna”, the songwriter invokes a blissful, genreless euphoria as he unlaces his narrative of romantic infatuation. The way Echo Frame partners funky guitar lines with dreamy vocals and a strolling rhythm section makes us particularly impatient for the release of his upcoming EP...

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Echo Frame - Belladonna

goodnight lavender — re:try
a part of “afterstory.” LP

artwork by sakire:
twitter.com/sakanfish

violins played by @phritzmusic :)

lyrics

faces blurring, passing by
i've got nowhere left to run
another face in the crowd
autumn calling, i'm still falling

and i know that you'll never care
and you won't remember my name
and i know that i'll die alone
with nothing to show for

but i'll try anyway
i'll try anyway
and i'll cry through the night
i might not survive

now i keep trying
to take it back
the things i lost
i should've said

i'll come undone
vision fading
you were the one
my final call

and i know that you'll never care
and you won't remember my name
and i know that i'll die alone
with nothing to show for

but i'll try anyway
i'll try anyway
and i'll cry through the night
i might not survive

lately i've been lost
wandering in the dark
nothing in my thoughts
i was just fine today

re:try

bandcamp

Spotify:  http://bit.ly/handmedownspotify
Apple Music: http://bit.ly/handmedownapple

Lyrics:
Be honest with me now
You make me feel like I'm a handmedown
You pick me up and then you turn me down
Just wish you'd hit my line
I only think about you all the time
Why i gotta get in line

Is it just because I say i want it all
Is it just me 'cause, no that's not me at all
I know I say stuff that I don't mean at all
I've been thinking 'bout it and it just don't make no sense at all

Be honest with me now
You make me feel like I'm a handmedown
You pick me up and then you turn me down
Just wish you'd hit my line
I only think about you all the time
Why i gotta get in line

Girl you're feeling lonely
Don't you know that that's how I've been feeling mostly?
Yeah I'm lost but you can show me now

It's not just because, it's not how I wanted
And nothing can change that now

Be honest with me now
You make me feel like I'm a handmedown
Why your mom want me to turn it down
Just wish you'd hit my line
I only think about you all the time
Why i gotta get in line

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Music written and produced by Ben Andre
Mastered by Joe LaPorta
Artwork: photo by Ellie Sperazza, editing by Matt Lewis, and text by Will Bryant

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handmedown

Lyrics:

time will go and see me follow
saying hollow 
you're with the bottles

another day I tried to borrow
not playing console 
but maybe although

another day another sorrow
was there a one for you
was there a one for you

another time I'm leaping for you
thinking about the truth
finding the next move

chorus:
she said she'll run away now
she said she'll run away now
ill be all subtle
ill be all subtle

she said she'll run away now
she said she'll run away now
ill be all subtle
ill be all subtle

she said she'll run away now
she said she'll run away now
ill be all subtle
ill be all subtle

she said she'll run away now
she said she'll run away now
ill be all subtle
ill be all subtle

now shell leave 
the gates tomorrow

what could've been I've never been the same
we could've have a second chance to blame

bridge:
be mine on my own
alone again
where do I call home
alone again

chorus:
she said she'll run away now
she said she'll run away now
ill be all subtle
ill be all subtle

she said she'll run away now
she said she'll run away now
ill be all subtle
ill be all subtle

she said she'll run away now
she said she'll run away now
ill be all subtle
ill be all subtle

she said she'll run away now
she said she'll run away now
ill be all subtle
ill be all subtle

ARTWORK BY PRISCILLA MORENO
Instagram: @preemoreno

Subtle

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in case i dont see ya

I've never felt so whole
Remember days when tunnel vision had me on the floor

Summer came with a subtle breeze
Winter came off and on
Every spring on the trampoline
Falls like leaves on the lawn
Grab a coat
Come along

I've been given devotion to grow
And I take it wherever I go
I was living a hell of a show
Now I fall in the river and flow

I've never felt so free
Remember days when tunnel vision had me on my knees

Drama came with a friend or three
Hollywood needs no one more
Right on time for a cup of tea
Openness waits at the door
With a boat
And an oar

I was swimming in oceans of dro
And forgetting to say my hellos
I was living a hell of a show
Now I fall in the wind and I blow


Keelan McDorman - Drums/keys/bass/vocals
Kers - Vocals
Oliver Qiu - Guitar

Mixed by Keelan McDorman
Mastered by Mitch Wenig at Downbeat Denver

Television Turnaround

Shout out louds - Fall hard

WONDERGIRLS - THIS FOOL *4

EXO - PLAYBOY

빅뱅 (BIGBANG) - IF YOU

On My Mind

[ARTIST] Belinda May
[TITLE] Beautiful Days
[CATALOG NUMBER] FCEP-027
[FORMAT] 7″
[PRICE] 1,500 yen (without tax)

TRACKLIST:
A. Everyday In Love
B1. Beautiful Days
B2. Feel

Beautiful Days

Belinda May - Everyday In Love

drums, percussion, recording, mix - jack
guitar, bass, keys, vocals, recording, mix - manny

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walk through the snow

“Get Up (Just Don’t Lie to Me)” is our second single release and features guest vocalist Whitney Miley Price (Drew’s wife). It’s your summer jam for the long winter.

Get Up (Just Don't Lie To Me) - Single

Lyrics:
Where do we go from here love?
We are circling around the unexplored
Yeah where do we go from here now?
I never believed there’d be an end

But suddenly usual is no guarantee
The rhythm changed
But somehow, we got stuck in repeat 
Somehow, we got stuck in repeat
Somehow, we got stuck in repeat

Now how should I go any further?
‘Cause I can’t seem to fall out of love

Gravity draws me back into history
Our song has changed
But somehow, I am stuck in repeat
Somehow, I am stuck in repeat 
Somehow, I am stuck in repeat

But you don’t understand
Grieving ain’t avoidable
The album doesn’t end
By starting something new
You’re always on delay
But don’t think that you’re fortunate
The shadow of the day
Won’t always hide

Music by Roos Meijer & Javièr den Leeuw
Lyrics by Roos Meijer
Drums by Quinten de Jongh
Bass by Javièr den Leeuw
Keys, guitars, percussion & backing vocals by Anne Lieke Heusinkveld
Guitar & vocals by Roos Meijer
Guitar by Sam van Hoogstraten
Production by Anne Lieke Heusinkveld
Mix by Anne Lieke Heusinkveld & Jesse Koch
Master by Wessel Oltheten
Artwork by Michiel Mutsaerts

Where Do We Go

New single taken from the upcoming LP  'No More Summer Songs' from Phantom Handshakes.

Written and recorded by Phantom Handshakes
Mastered by Carl Saff

Skin

All songs written and recorded by Phantom Handshakes
Mastered by Carl Saff

A Secret Life

© 2021 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records
Produced by William Evans
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert

In between, reaching for something sound
Wanting more before a sign is found 
Thoughts in circles, sewed in
The feedback wearing it thin
Am I someplace I’d rather be
Off in times different than these?

I wish I knew what it’s worth
Can’t get out of this myself
I wish I knew what it’s worth 
Can’t get out of this myself
I wish I knew what it’s worth
Can’t get out of this myself
I wish I knew what it’s worth
Can’t get out of this myself
I wish I knew it

Burn all ties
Foundation lines
For another time
Or a lonely lie
Costing, sinking, all in
Best to flip or to spin
If something real
Isn’t real?

Can’t get out of this myself

Can’t get out of this myself
I wish I knew what it’s worth 

Music by Zachary Blount, Nicholas Evans, William Evans
Lyrics by Zachary Blount
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

With You For Ever

Buy vinyl on Bandcamp

Something Sound

© 2021 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records
Produced by William Evans
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert

Folding at the top of your life
Weekends she never your type
How you gonna stop yourself?
Folding at the top of your life
Weak kids were never so kind
Strong ones shut their mouths
And weaken beneath the quiet

Don’t need much for us
Don’t need much for us
Don’t need much for

I don’t care if this is what you’re in it for
I don’t care
I sit around (I don’t care) 
I sit around (If this is what you’re in it for)
I sit around (I don’t care) 
Asking what you’re in it for

Folding at the top of your life
Fall back you’re one of a kind
But trip to catch twenty-two
Everyone’s talking about something 
(Something)
I don’t think I fully can understand 
(Understand)
Or I don’t have the patience to indulge it
Shaking all the upper hands

Don’t need much for us
Don’t need much for us
Don’t need much for

I sit around (I don’t care) 
I sit around (If this is what you’re in it for)
I sit around (I don’t care)
Asking what you’re in it for
I sit around
I sit around

I sit around

Music by William Evans, Nicholas Evans, Zachary Blount
Lyrics by William Evans
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

Much For Us

Limited edition Vinyl Moon pressing of our debut LP "With You For Ever" available on www.strayfossa.com/shop

© 2021 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records
Produced by William Evans
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert

This time seems
There's no getting out 
Of the headspace that 
You made yourself

You don't have it bad, 
But you're mad, and 
You mean to feel significant

Staring down the harm, 
You take it to the sun
To preach at all the pawns;
You don't fool me

Put down the guns
Come take a walk
Why don't you try
To get along?
It's not that hard
It never was 
To be a part
To be someone

The kid guards its toy
Like the thing is the last remaining
Sign of home

The freedom to say 
What you want like you can 
When you're among your own

It must be tiresome
To play a victim,
It must feel so absurd;
You don't fool me 
   
Put down the guns
Come take a walk
Why don't you try
To get along?
It's not that hard
It never was 
To be a part
To be someone

Put down the guns
Come take a walk
Why don't you try
To get along?
It's not that hard
It never was 
To be a part
To be someone

Music by Nicholas Evans, William Evans, Zachary Blount
Lyrics by Nicholas Evans
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.