Windmill is energetic. It's a fun, upbeat track with a slight melancholy tint to it. Bright melodies, and dreamy vocals. Catchy, anthemic, guitar riffs. It captures a unique sound, but retains a familiar quality. Lyrically, it's centered around the, "shrinking violets," phrase. The feeling of shyness that emerges when a relationship starts to deteriorate.

Windmill

“Queens” is the first single from Carver Commodore’s second LP. The song is about and for anyone who has felt marginalized or held down by the people who make decisions.

Production, Engineering, & Synth by Brendan St. Gelais

Mixing & Mastering by Chris Bethea

Drums & Percussion by Noah Freeman

Electric Guitar by Phillip Blevins

Keys by Clayton Christopher

Vocals, Electric guitar, Organ, Bass, Artwork, & Song by Payton Ray Pruitt

Queens

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Preview of Ask Carol's coming single "Darkest Hour".
ISRC: NO2UH2003010

Darkest Hour

Written by Kahlla
Produced by Kahlla and Duncan Pym for Off Your Feet
Bass by Matt Dinnadge


Don’t look to me for a plan 
I spent so long wrapped up in my room
Don’t look to me for the answers
spent so long boxed up in my cocoon 
I said I love you
But it doesn’t mean a thing to you anymore
I said I love you
But it doesn’t mean a thing to you anymore

Our silver lining
is hanging by a thread
and I can feel myself unravelling from it 
Our silver lining
is hanging by a thread
and I can feel myself unravelling, can feel myself unravelling from it
  
Hide the parts you say are wrong
You shine a spotlight on the worst of me 
Don’t want to bend, don’t wand to break
Don’t want a watered down version of me 
When I touch you why does it always feel like compromise
When I touch you can you still feel the butterflies?

Our silver lining
is hanging by a thread
and I can feel myself unravelling from it 
Our silver lining
is hanging by a thread
and I can feel myself unravelling, can feel myself unravelling from it

We’re so tangled up
and I’m so tied to you
to our twists and turns 
to my own point of view
when the ends come loose
and the knot’s undone
I fear the truth
what is me without you?

Our silver lining
is hanging by a thread
and I can feel myself unravelling from it 
Our silver lining
is hanging by a thread
and I can feel myself unravelling, can feel myself unravelling from it

Thread

What a year it was for Spunsugar. Among the most promising acts to emerge from Scandanavia in 2020, after a raft of glorous early singles drew plaudits from all quarters of the English press the Malmo-based trio released debut LP Drive-Through Chapel, which more or less lit up the boards in their native Sweden. Kicking off what will be a even bigger year for the gothgaze dreamers, January sees the release of their new single ‘You Never Turn Around’.


As Oscar Wilde once put it “There is no romance without tragedy” An uncharacteristically poptastic offering from the Swedes, ‘(You Never) Turn Around’ is synthwave melodrama about the great tragedy of lukewarm indifference. Like Alvvays covering Gary Newman, and ever so macabre – this is Spunsugar remember – it's the trio at their most unashamedly flamboyant. Sad never sounded so spectacular. 

"A little less steel, a little more silk: that was the mantra when "(You Never) Turn Around" was recorded. It’s the final song in a trilogy about being in a relationship with a person who’s emotionally unavailable ("Time Enough at Last" and "Dial Up Tone” from the debut album are the first and second parts). 

The lyrics are inspired by a hazy memory of a film. In the film the theory goes that when they say goodbye but turn to look at you one last time, you know it’s love.    
Make no mistake, this is a true Spunsugar song, so you’re guaranteed a meaty rock song. But this single is pop: dreamier than previous releases and crisper in its construction, with a compelling intro, groovier tempo and the sort of singalong feel that your granny might appreciate. Spunsugar might be accused of having sold our souls, but that don't bother us. We never had one to begin with." Spunsugar

Spunsugar - (You Never) Turn Around

Sleep in Yr Jeans, from the EP Sixteenth Sapphire by Virgo Rising, out now House of Wonders Records.

Virgo Rising is:
Emily Sinclair • vocals, guitar
Lauren Wittmann • keyboards
Jenna Wittmann • guitar

Also appearing:
Isaac Tate • drums
Sam Sarty • bass guitar

Written by Virgo Rising
Produced, engineered, and mixed by Adam Fuhr at House of Wonders
Mastered by Ryan Morey at Grey Market

Virgo Rising - Sleep in Yr Jeans

Strawberries

“Resistance,” the 2nd single from Yo Kinky’s debut EP (out 02/28/21), finds the duo exploring a more delicate yet simultaneously strong and confident mood. With Unish’s spaced-out, rockabilly-tinged guitar bouncing through the song’s driving, hypnotic layers of sound, they paint a sonic landscape that yearns for much-needed intimacy in a time of social distancing and isolation. As Wight’s vocals float above the surface, singing “Love is all we breathe” and “Swing me off my feet,” she transports the listener to places of rich yet strange beauty. “Resistance” alludes to keeping sanity amidst chaos with the warm and hopeful delivery of “Sight got back/I feel different/A flicker in the distance,” and finding contentment from the small things in life: “Everybody’s just around the corner now/Everything I need is just a short walk down the street.” This follow-up is sure to leave listeners with a sense of triumph against all odds.

Resistance

Ghost (Radio Edit)

Written and performed by Social Contract. Produced by Neil Kennedy at The Ranch Production House, Southampton, July 2020.

Hesitant

Trace Kotik