I Would but I Can't

Jezzer

Taken from the debut album Gims, due for release 18.5.15. Download the full album for pay-what-you like from our Bandcamp, where you can also pre-order a glittery green cassette version of the release: artishardrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gims
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It’s very easy to throw superlatives at something you admire, but when it comes to something you love, that’s when things get pretty tricky. Although that’s possibly the cheesiest opening line I’ve ever written for a release announcement, I wouldn’t be saying it if I was able to cohesively string together some thoughts on how good I think gims by flout is.

Due for release 18.5.15 on ltd edition green glittery cassette, gims is a collection of songs by the New York based John DeRosso (aka flout). Gradually appearing on his Bandcamp page over the space of 2 months, the album is made up of a collection of yearning, softly sung bedroom pop songs “about being an adult, and coming to terms with a realized faulty version of yourself”.

Although it seems lazy to draw comparisions to other bedroom pop heroes (Alex G, R.L. Kelly, Gorgeous Bully) the elements that made all of the aforementioned so endearing and excellent are present here. The sound of someone finding their feet whilst making understated pop songs complete with all the perfect imperfections that come with recording at home. As John says himself “I wouldn’t change a thing about it. The constant clearing of my throat, my cat meowing after track 1, the footsteps of my roommates on the hardwood floors present on many tracks, the shouts of seamen on the titanic attempting to avoid an iceberg at the end of track 7, and all of those other “blemishes” encapsulate the cathartic days and nights recording this fledgling body of work.”

The short running time (11 tracks in just under 22 minutes) leaves you yearning for more and I’ve lost count of the amount of times, I’ve quickly stuck the album on whilst walking somewhere or waiting for something to happen. It somehow achieves the accolade of being one of our most fragile releases but also one of our most self assured and I’m extremely happy to be releasing it.

flout - rainchecks

Luke Ingram Xiii - Pop Punk, Luke John Ingram, Luke Ingram, 2025

Dark

You’re there, frozen
And the morning bends over you
I count my thoughts
Balanced on your breath

… Because this silence
I’ve never known it anywhere else
It still has a chance

It’s not me who chooses, no, it never was
It’s not me who chooses, even when I try
It’s not me who chooses, it slips through my hands
It’s not me, no

How can you hold
What you can’t touch?
Six seconds standing still
Seven wishes colliding

… If I don’t wake you up
Maybe you’ll stay
Just enough

It’s not me who chooses, no, it never was
It’s not me who chooses, even when I watch you
It’s not me who chooses, I only wait
It’s not me… I don’t move

If you open your eyes
And don’t feel like talking
Lay them back on me (lay them back on me)
And the day will be softer

Look at you
You’re even more true like this

It’s not me who chooses, no, not even now
It’s not me who chooses, I never really could
It’s not me who chooses, no, not even now
It’s not me, not me, not me…

We always want
To appear in someone else’s dream
But sometimes, we just
Have to watch them sleep

It’s not me (Alternative Rock reload)

smile baby

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Someone Else For You

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THE DEVIL'S RIFLE IS NAMED AFTER YOU

Peel Dream Magazine is the musical vehicle for NYC's Joe Stevens, who launched the band in 2018 with the critically acclaimed album "Modern Meta Physic." With it Stevens created a mysterious, liminal tribute to the hazy end of ‘90s dream-pop – a masterful mix of first-class songwriting precision and train-window sonic impressionism that duly found its place on numerous "Best of 2018" lists.

After 18 months of writing and live shows with a shifting cast of band members, Peel Dream are back with "Agitprop Alterna," an album that pushes the group's dreamy, motorik-heavy sound to a deeply melodic and beautifully discordant place. The album pays homage to a strain of mod-ish U.K. pop that spans early My Bloody Valentine and Talulah Gosh, up through early Stereolab, Belle & Sebastian, and even Broadcast. It's also indebted to stateside pop bands that were cut from a similar cloth -- Rocketship, Lilys, Yo La Tengo, and even "Nevermind"-era Nirvana.

Where the creation of "Modern Meta Physic" was a solitary pursuit, "Agitprop Alterna" found Stevens channeling the collaborative spirit of the band's ever-rotating live incarnation in the studio. The album is ultimately defined by the tension of difference: between itself and its predecessor; intertwined male-female vocals; the music's languid dreaminess and concrete sonic immediacy.

Deeply rooted in the Brechtian ideas of art as a tool to spur action, "Agitprop Alterna" deepens the connection between the existential and the interpretive first explored on "Modern Meta Physic," giving the listener space to find their own meaning in shimmering guitars, fuzzed-out synths, and buzzing organ drones. It is a rejection of manipulation in all its forms and a buzzsaw against complacency – soft-focus pop whose clear-cut message is that you get to decide the message. It's a rare trick to agitate without being obvious: perhaps that makes "Agitprop Alterna" the most Peel Dream Magazine-like statement yet.

Agitprop Alterna

Agitprop Altern

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Knot's self-titled full length debut is out August 28th via Exploding In Sound Records

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Sentimiento Mundial

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LYRICS

Pastel shades in the early heat of May
But all I see is grey
Monochrome scenes feels like it’s all through a screen
But who am I to say what’s real

Is something wrong with me?
Rings like a silent scream 
My sadness is compiling
It’s summer and I don’t feel like smiling

The long days shouldn’t feel this bleak
But it feels like I’m on a losing streak
The smell of suncream and salty air
I feel nothing and I don’t care

Is something wrong with me?
Rings like a silent scream
My sadness is compiling 
It’s summer and I don’t feel like smiling

Air con and blackout blinds
I never mean to be unkind 
Air con and blackout blinds
I never mean to be unkind 
Air con and blackout blinds
I never mean to be unkind 

The long days shouldn’t feel this bleak
But it feels like I’m on a losing streak

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