Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Freda D’Souza is an artist who contentedly creates at snail’s pace. Her world is small; simplicity reveals detail and, in turn, detail reveals infinity. Her songs place the unspeakable intensity of love and life within a warm and shimmering sonic world, filled with layered vocals, lush strings and dynamic arrangements. Out June 2023 on demo records and Crossness Records, her debut EP Windowledge, performed, recorded and mixed at home by Freda and mastered by Jake Reynolds, explores the trials of intimacy and the value of introspection and forging space for reflection. Freda cherishes space. In space, there is tenderness.
Drawing from classic and contemporary folk and experimental reference points (as much Vashti Bunyan and Joni Mitchell as Aldous Harding and Jenny Hval), Windowledge is a spacious and shimmering introduction to a singular emerging talent.

Hull, U.K.-based quartet bdrmm was originally a solo project by lead vocalist Ryan Smith, who decided to expand it into a band with his brother, Jordan Smith, on bass, Joe Vickers (guitar), Danny Hull (synth, backing vocals), and Luke Irvin (drums). Their first single, C:U, was noticed by Sonic Cathedral, which signed the band in 2019 and released their debut EP, If Not, When?, later the same year. Their first full-length release, Bedroom was out in in 2020. After a three years hiatus (interrupted only by the singles Port in 2021, and Three in 2022), the band -now consisting in Ryan and Jordan Smith, Joe Vickers, and new drummer Conor Murray- signed with Mogwai‘s Rock Action Records, and their second album, I Don’t Know, was out on June 30th.

Special Friend is a Paris-based American/French indie-noise-pop duo formed by Erica Ashleson (drums, vocals) and Guillaume Siracusa (guitar, vocals). Formed in Paris in 2018 when Erica was just starting to learn drums while Guillaume accompanied her on the guitar, the two friends have been composing & playing non-stop ever since, citing influences such as Yo La Tengo, Duster, Galaxie 500 & Elliott Smith. After releasing a self-titled EP in 2019 and a first album Ennemi Commun in 2021, the duo spent most of 2022 composing and recording their next album. An honest, rhythmic and mesmerising brand of modern pop, still in line with their unique, spontaneous, minimalistic sound, the band has stretched further allowing more arrangements including keyboards and violin, marked by their signature: harmonising, unobtrusive vocals that blend with the rest of the instruments in a restlessly inventive, exquisitely melodic sound. Ten tracks sung both in French (Bête, Inertie, Ami spécial) and English. Wait Until The Flames Come Rushing In comes out June 30th on UK label Skep Wax and French labels Howlin’ Banana and Hidden Bay Records.