An indie playlist featuring the best Indie pop / rock tracks from May 2022. Full playlist atwww.birp.fm // Updated monthly, so save your favorites!  Indie, Bedroom Pop, Lofi, Surf Rock, etc.

Indie Playlist • BIRP! May 2022

Out of My Way by Yndling, third single out 8th of Sep 2021

Out of My Way

New tune from Quiet Dreamer. Its best with headphones.
Get the whole album here: balue.bandcamp.com

Man In The Sixties

Water Table

(from GINKGO by Field Guides — out June 24, 2022)

Pre-order here: https://fieldguides.bandcamp.com/album/ginkgo

Taylor Bergren-Chrisman: electric & upright bass
Julian Cubillos: electric guitar
Rachel Housle: drums, percussion
Benedict Kupstas: voice, nylon-string & electric guitars
Jesse Perlstein: voice, field recordings
Adam “Bones” Robinson: tenor saxophone
Aaron Rourk: saxophones
Alena Spanger: voice, keys

Music & words by Benedict Kupstas  /  Produced by Shannon Fields, Nico Hedley, & Benedict Kupstas  /  Arrangement by Benedict Kupstas, Nico Hedley, & Shannon Fields, with all the musicians  /  Engineered by Julian Cubillos  /  Additional remote recording by all the musicians  /  Mixed by Eli Crews at Spillway Sound in West Hurley, NY  /  Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering in Chicago, IL  /  Layout & design by Benedict Kupstas

Ginkgo

Field Guides - "Salmon Skin"

Jaguar Sun - With You

Night Soup

Finley

Our 1st album, GOLDEN YEAR, is coming out on July 2. Here's a preview of what it's gonna sound like. 

Photo cred: Danny's wife while we were snorkeling in Punta Cana, DR.

Stay Gold

From our second LP entitled 'II' on Vinyl, CD & Digital.

Buy - https://horsebeach.bandcamp.com/

*UPDATE*

The new 4th album is currently in the works but I need a hand getting it up and running. Please check out the Kickstarter page and help me out in anyway you can.

Thanks, Ryan

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1362903932/horsebeach-the-fourth-album-is-imminent

Pre-order

It's Alright

From 'Just Beneath the Floor', out November 5th.

FOR TO PRE-ORDER: https://formaffinity.bandcamp.com/album/just-beneath-the-floor

@formaffinity

I don't think that you want it, I don't think you do. The dimness in your eyes betrays you. You should be possessed of desire, burning, seething, roiling, churning, wracking you from top to tender toesies. Unless... there it is. A spasm of life. A dull inkling. Fain recognition. Understanding. Awareness. Pure flaming ambition. You want Form Affinity's 'Mr Pain', from the 'Just Beneath the Floor' EP, premiered by Madjestic Kasual; you want it listened to, liked, reposted, shared unremittingly. You want it. I know.

for to pre-order

Form Affinity - Mr Pain [MK PREMIERE]

The Sky

Grand glowing protector
Of our good home
Cured colours of happiness
That your eyes hone
White light Rayleigh scattered
To cerulean blue
The sky that we love
Rods and cones paint for you

The Sky

One star in our day
From particulate reflections
Go 60 miles up
Day time galaxy beckons
Here, were less dense
So sky's glow disappears
Oh so thin atmos skin
'Must protect our air dears

The Sky

Why red at sunset?
Same shift at rise...
That's all the blue gone
So red meets our eyes
Other side of the spectrum
Through particles more
Not refraction but scattering
Of white light solar

The Sky

For your eyes

________________________________________

Tuning 440Hz
Tempo 108 BPM
Capo 7
Key E minor (Dominant B7)
Subject: Picked by Alma

Instrumentation
-Vox and Ovation Acoustic Guitar Live
-Ovation Acoustic Lead
-Epiphone Electric Lead
-Epiphone Electric Picked
-Backing vocal runs x 3
-Glass Sky ambient pad played on keys
-Piano played on keys and mirrored with harp
-5 String Ibanez bass
-Hit Hat and ride line played on keys (neo soul kit)
-Congas played on keys
-Timbales played on keys
-Cello section played on keys
-Chimes played on keys
-Cajon played on keys 1 bass run and 1 snare run
-Wind section of bassoon, clarinet, native flute, Celtic tin whistle played on keys
-Epiphone Electric thumbed rhythm
-Lost Reverse pad through full reverse effect pedal played on keys
-Mastered using bx_mastering - London Smooth -1dB

To do
-Consider a choral section with some falsetto rooted in the cello and to add.cresendo and variance to the outro

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The pic is Alma (4) chasing two crows who were on the grass before she went flying with them. We were on our way to collect her older siblings from school.

It was strange making this. Anytime I'm singing to my kids in my head it just makes it so much more important and I guess is reflected in the emotion. They are going to face so much bullshit in this world I think it's important to show them how to love and be passionate about what's real and the simple things. I guess they have a shot at loving the world and themselves if they appreciate the simplicity of where we are instead of getting lost in the fud...

I guess in a big way I have my Grandad's poems to thank for helping that approach. He'd look at a tree or a season and make it the most important thing in the universe with the way he wrote about it. I'm trying hard to do that with the songs. Everything can be loved and appreciated for what it is and I guess we don't need a creed then, we just believe and love our reality for the poetry it is.

Always ask questions. One of my earliest memories is asking my Mum from a pram "How many blades of grass in that field?" I was pretty bummed when I got an "I don't know! 😆 It was unlikely the first question my unfortunate Mum had endured on that walk...

The answer is quite random but it averages out at 200,000 blades per m2, field was about 80m x 80 so 1.2 billion blades of grass (there's a factory in that field now so eh todays the answer is  0️⃣) blades....

Humans suck at quantifying things we don't directly experience and the biggest one of those is the indirect ways we experience the climate emergency.
Here's to kids asking questions ❓

The Sky

LUPO

That's the day I've been waiting for
Driving slow around with you
From the hill where the sun is lying 
Yellow strips of gold are straining here right into my eyes

And I'm glad you chose to spend today with me
Glad to see the sun burning
Silent you and silent me, waiting
For the sun to drown into the sea.

By my side now the river slides,
Looking for a sea to feed.
And I watch the wind
That blows invisible
Dancing with the wind
I think you know well the way I feel.

And I'm glad you chose to spend today with me
Glad to see the sun burning
Silent you and silent me, waiting
For the sun to drown into the sea.

It's change
It's nothing at all
It's changed
Nothing at all.

Lupo

Shows:
3/5/16 - Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right (EP RELEASE PARTY)****
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"Just To Be Like You"

released August 1, 2019 
Music by Nicholas Evans, William Evans, Zachary Blount 
Lyrics by Nicholas Evans
© 2019 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records

Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa 
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

Nick Evans - vocals, guitars 
Zach Blount - vocals, bass
Will Evans - vocals, drums, percussion
Arielle Korman - violin

Cover design by Kris Williams

Lyrics:
Never thought that I could be so cold?
Try me
After all the rest have all gone home
And I’m
Living on a caldera how dare I
Temper myself
Fortunate that I’m not 
Sinking
These days
These days

Thinking of the past that other world
Spying
Whose enamored authors wore their 
Better selves?
Honestly the truth seems
Oh, so very empty,
Mislaid 
These days
These days
These days
These days

Jaguar Sun - With You

Born Losers Records

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