Less than two Thursdays into the new year & less than one minute into my 1st listen - I'm calling it!: TOY - "Mechanism": among the 'Top Ten Songs of the Year' for 2019!

From the Leave You EP released on 10" white vinyl jointly by Big Tea Records and FIFA Records on April 28th 2014.

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Elastic Sleep - Leave You

Whats Left Anymore

The Royal Wave - The Ocean and the Sea

"

I reject the box of memories
Don't hang them in my room
All the corners
Filled with spiderwebs
As my compass line spins round

It's a solitary glance
See her shadow through the mirror
It's how to tell I feel her
And embrace the inside touch

Indentation
On my memory
Makes me flip those pages faster
In agony
As the bats hang
Like feeble guards of disgrace
From the gates of hades empire

And it's a solitary glance
See her shadow through the mirror
It's how to tell I feel her
And embrace the inside touch 

"

Inside Touch

Rear View

Taken from the album, Happy In The Hollow, out January 25th 2019.

The vinyl pressing of the album is available in several different variants - the first, only available via the Tough Love webstore, is on 180gm vinyl, includes a bonus 12" featuring remixes by Sonic Boom and Cosey Fanni Tutti, and is limited to 300 copies. The second, in conjunction with the Dinked indie store collective, is limited to 700 copies on 'ultra clear' vinyl, features alternative artwork and a 'secret 7"'. Finally, a third version will be available exclusively from Rough Trade Records, and features an alternative 'secret 7"' on 'snow white' vinyl, limited to 200 copies. Pre-order here - smarturl.it/ToyHappyInTheHollow

TOY - Mechanism

Nots - Floating Hand

Clara Luz

Alternative Privilege

Debut EP out January 17th 2020 via Howlin' Banana.

Pop Crimes - Goes

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

Peel Dream Magazine - Emotional Devotion Creator

Lead single from Malmö quartet Arre! Arre!'s Heavy Breathing EP, out August 14 2020 via PNKSLM Recordings on limited edition vinyl & digitally. Pre-order at http://www.PNKSLM.com/store

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