simmcat is the project of Italian, but Copenhagen based, visual artist and songwriter Simona Catalani. Her world is a homage to the natural melancholy forged by memories, creating an ethereal imagery between sound and visual boundaries. After the release of the EP Soy Milk in 2020, characterized by and intimate bedroom pop and more slacker sounds akin of Frankie Cosmos, or the lo-fi vibes of Karen O.’s solo’s debut, simmcat came out in 2023 with the debut full length I Thought I Was Dreaming, via We Were Never Being Boring Collective, expanding her inspiration to a suspended visionary state, typical of a dream-pop reminiscent of Mazzy Star. simmcat sophomore album, I heard she lost you, recorded in California during spring 2024, will be released tomorrow, March 7th, 2025, again via WWNBB.

The Royal Landscaping Society started in Seville (Spain) in 2012 as a solo project, then expanded into a band and eventually shrunk again into a duo with Cris Romero (vocals, guitar, synths and machines) and David Vidal (bass, bass synth). With an obvious love for the breezier side of indiepop, The Royal Landscaping Society mix crystalline guitars and primitive electronics in a sound described as “shimmery romantic pop” that has earned comparisons to The Cure and Sarah Records legends Brighter and The Field Mice, among others. The story so far includes an eponymous debut mini-album on Beko Disques in 2014, a series of compilation appearances on Little Treasure, La Souterraine, Cloudberry, Beko, February and TBTCI. In 2022 Matinée Records released brilliant Means of Production collection, that includes remastered versions of six tracks from the band’s 2014 eponymous mini-album on French label Beko Disques, a song from a special Beko Olympics compilation, the auspicious Matinée debut from the ‘Matinée Idols’ compilation in 2017, and their incredible contribution to Matinée’s World Cup EP in 2018. It also includes eight tremendous cover versions of indie classics including songs originally performed by Adorable, The Cure, Etienne Daho, Harper Lee, McCarthy, Slowdive, The Softies, and They Go Boom!. The Fractals EP, out in February, is their new three tracks single, once again on Matinée Records.

Kristin Daelyn is a folk artist and fingerstyle guitarist from Philadelphia. Her debut album, Gardens & Plantings, was out in 2022. With Beyond the Break, her second full-length (out next February 28, via Orindal Records), her soaring, spectral voice sits higher in the mix, and her lyrics take center stage, incorporating imagery based on her love of poetry and a creative practice that draws from philosophical texts and exploration of the natural world. The songs themselves, Daelyn explains, are often designed to create inhabitable landscapes for the listener, an approach noticeable in the open-ended language of “Longing.” With this newly visceral approach, Daelyn brings to focus her evolution as a guitarist. Focused as much on melody as the texture of her playing, she favors chords that leave suggestive space between each note, dissonance that never quite resolves and adds a tender shadow to her major-key melodies. In the instrumental title track, she plays in collaboration with Dan Knishkowy (Adeline Hotel, Jackie West) on guitar and Danny Black (Good Old War, Gregory Alan Isakov) on pedal steel, resulting in a mood that blends the open-road psychedelia of William Tyler with the dreamy travelogues of Julie Byrne.