Minimal folk tunes and a little bit of acoustic extravaganza by the founder of the Bees Make Honey label.

Two years in the works, but well worth the wait. With its thirteen new songs, some of which witness a slight change of direction in the band's sound, leaning towards poppier and brighter atmospheres, the third full length effort by Aberdeen's favourite guitar geeks underlines Vinyl Bill's continuing artistic growth and progress towards a full maturity.

Featuring: Other People's Children, Orange Cake Mix, Love Letter Band, Simpático, The Cellophane Sky, Laurent-Toure, Park, Carnival Park, The Fantasy Lights, It's Gonna Be Fine, Vertical Pool, Suretoss, Airline, The Apple Orchard, Tim Chaplin, Huon, Sodajerk, Tourister, Project Cabrini, River, Bobsy, Northern:Lights. Includes bands from Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, France, United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, Philippines and the United States.

Lo-fi experimentation and dreampop sensibility work well together in this collection of tunes by Brian John Mitchell, who is also the author of the QRD fanzine and the founder of the Silber label.

Fifteen-minute space-age pop symphony consisting of eleven movements in which dreamy electronica, casiocore and indiepop keep crossing ways. Brought you by Joel Tannenbaum, also in The Skywriters'/Snow Fairies lineup.

Clare is the first Japanese band to ever appear on Best Kept Secret and we are thrilled to bring you their tender and ambient-oriented pop tunes.

From Newfoundland, Canada, little precious home-taped pop tunes, some of which see the light of day for the very first time here, that will find a place in your heart to then never ever leave.

Astoria's shoegazer sensation covers songs by Reo Speedwagon, The Stone Roses, Joy Division, House of Love, Velvet Underground, Nancy Sinatra, The Jazz Butcher, Radiohead, Depeche Mode, A Flock of Seagulls, Magnetic Fields, The Who, Marty Willson-Piper, The Primitives, Lightning Seeds, The Beatles.

Nozomi is a full-band project hailing from Austin, TX, founded and led by Cliff Brown. Sinuous folk-rock ballads that slowly wind into more psychedelic territories with slide guitars all around adding a crepuscular spacey feel.

Rare and previously unavailable gems by this power pop combo out of Bristol. A must for those who enjoyed "Words and pictures" and for anyone who loves that good old Seventies power pop sound.