Pattern Is Movement : "Climb To Me" (via Force Field PR/ Stereogum /Soundcloud) La Sera : "Losing to the Dark" (via Force Field PR/Soundcloud) Lark : "Goodbye Man" (via Care in the Community Records/Soundcloud) Kairos : "Can/Cannot" (via Fin Records/Soundcloud) Odonis Odonis : "Angus Mountain" (via Force Field PR/Buzz Records/ Noisey /Soundcloud) North : "Hiraeth" (via Earsplit PR/Cvlt Nation/Soundcloud) The Socks : "Electric War" (via Earsplit PR/ Heavy Planet Stoner Rock Blog /Soundcloud) Pontiak : "We've Got It All Wrong" (via Thrill Jockey Records/Viemo) Pontiak - We've Got It Wrong from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo . Red Fang : "No Hope" (via Relapse Records/ Gear Gods /YouTube) Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

Between Frankie Rose and Katy Goodman ’s solo project, La Sera , O.G. Spector -worshippers Vivian Girls have really saturated the scene with melodic, lo-fi garage and Shangri-La pop groove. Spawning the solo and collaborative dabbling of Rose and Goodman, both of whom are putting out new albums in the next month or so, you do have to wonder how many more albums Vivian Girls have left before the sound is completely exhausted. Moving in a proactive manner, the starry-eyed nuances often associated with this sound are seeming to fall by the wayside. Rose, in particular, seems much less enchanted with sounding enchanted, taking on a cleaner edge and hardening the otherwise softness of her music. You could even cite The Smiths or The Cure as a basis for Interstellar , her upcoming new album. There’s jangling riffs and synthesizers, electro-tinged percussion. Certainly a throwback sound, but now twenty-years later than her last throwback sound. Frankie Rose - Gospel/Grace fro...