Translations in Christian McClain, a young lad from Texas, whose music compels the listener with its ever eclectic and complex combination of elements ranging from hints of dreampop and shoegaze to references to post-rock and ambient. Think of the fragile sound of guitars that suddenly emerges from some deep, far-off and unknown recess, makes its way through sheets of clouds rolling by, and grows sparser and sparser as it rises farther up in the sky until it eventually dissolves into the silence and infinite darkness of outer space.

Beautiful, soulful and caressing home-recorded indietronica out of Durham, United Kingdom. David is also the man behind the October Man Recordings cd-r label.

Two collections of songs on one tape by a very good Swedish home-recording pop duo hailing from the Country’s capital. “Adam and Steve, religion is fiction” first appeared on the Popkonst label and features short, light-hearted and stripped-down tunes, whereas “Slow-fi” shows the band moving in a new direction, with the addition of synths and opting for more complex, layered arrangements.

More Swedish pop and once again a cassette that includes two different collections of songs. The “Low at the disco” e.p. is irresistible, mostly upbeat and kind of dancey, lo-fi pop; “The live sessions”, as the title suggests, was recorded live in one take and shows the band’s noisy (and punchy) side.

Long-running and quite eclectic d.i.y. recording project from California. This tape is a retrospective that includes songs spanning the band’s entire career, featuring sounds ranging from folk-pop to noise-pop to spaced-out dreampop, recorded and produced in a true lo-fi fashion.

Melancholy, sometimes electric and sometimes acoustic, pop by a band now based in Bristol, U.K., but originally formed in the Falkland Islands (when they still were when they first got in touch with us).

Bears insightful music fits somewhere between singer/songwriter’s pop and orchestral pop, combining the reflective mood of the former and the breezy, and at times exuberant, feel of the latter. We are proud to have been picked by the band to put out the cassette version of “Shortest day of the year”, which features one song (“Wake up”) that does not appear on the cd released by the band themselves.

Reverb-laden atmospherics and multi-layered walls of sound made up of distorted guitars and electronic noises over subdued vocals. The perfect shoegaze recipe.

Complexity is what makes this release so great. Psych-tinged (sometimes pop and sometimes folk) melodies with a shoegaze accent, occasional noisy interludes and an inclination for ambience never forgetting about late Seventies/early Eighties British new wave. May be hard to figure out while you are reading this, but give it a shot and it will make perfect sense right away.

Sunny bedroom-pop from California by a band whose members describe as a “high-school love affair with a grown up disguise”.