Tennessee bedroom dreampop artist Nomadic Firs unleashes his full-length upon an unsuspecting world. Some very solid stuff here. Especially the dream-reggae of “Cover Bombs”. That one’s especially good.

Hamilton folk-gazers The Rest finally finished their long in-progress full-length Seesaw and it appears it was mastered by Bob Weston. Nice. Here’s a track.

Montreal-via-Toronto transplant Airick Woodhead releases another cool track under his Doldrums moniker and off his upcoming Egypt 12″. And he made the Forkcast again! Awesome broski!

Our psychedelic friends in Toronto’s The Tight Ship have a new EP on the way and it’s pretttttyyyy badass.

The Tight Ship – Let’s Get High

The Tight Ship – Home Again

So FACT Magazine is streaming Laurel Halo‘s new album Quarantine on their soundcloud (that link above, yep, full album). I’ve listened to it like twice now and I’ve got some thoughts. I will order them into the form of an interview with myself.

Firstly, is it good?

-Yeah, it’s pretty good.

Buttttt??

-But it’s not like a full-length version of the King Felix EP. Which was what I was hoping for

What is it like?

-Like a cross between that EP and her more ambient/experimental shit.

But you like it?

-Yeah, it’s got vocals and melodies and stuff and it explores sound with songs in a very strange, unusual way. I don’t think I can quite compare it to anything else. Like sometimes people explore sound in the context of a pop song – here she’s like exploring pop ideas in the context of an ambient soundscape. Weird. But interesting.

Worth listening to?

-Yeah, but definitely not everyone is going to like it. Noooo way.

Final words on it?

-I’m gonna need to spend some time with it.

Muclekraft is the Denver-based chillwave project of current Gauntlet Hair bassist Matt Daniels. It’s solid stuff. (Via Portals)

Apparently, Norwegian Arms are actually from Philadelphia, but despite the less-exotic locale, this freak-folk/experimental band still sounds wonderfully weird in the hip way we’ve all been digging the last couple years, since Animal Collective kinda came around.

Norwegian Arms – Tired Of Being Cold

Rick Santorum what are you doing!

Contrary to the claims of some, April is not the cruelest month, but considering the way this May has been so far – warm one day, cold the next – it may very well earn that title. Any way, this month’s mix is a bit short cuz too many of the stupid bands and artists I blogged about last month want money for you to download their tracks so fuck ‘em, they don’t make the list, but here’s a mix of those who did.

1. Steevn Foster – Taking It Too Hard

2. Screaming Females – Rotten Apple

3. Heatherwood – Eden

4. Zach Schimpf – Lost In Black And Red

5. Pure Bathing Culture – Ivory Coast

6. Honey Luvv – Yeti

7. Moonface with Siinai – Yesterday’s Fire

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(p.s. record companies, these mixes help promote your artists, please leave them be!!!)

Toronto synth-punks Cellphone just sent over the mp3s off their excellent self-titled cassette EP. These guys are cool.

Cellphone – One Last shot

Cellphone – Kneeling Bus