Silverware’s sophomore LP One True Light is out today on Ghost Mountain records. Following a string EPs and 2021’s LP No Plans, One True Light is Wagoner’s most ambitious effort, both sonically and lyrically – a result of their two year, painstakingly detailed approach to every step of the album-making process and intimate collaboration with producer Omar Akrouche between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Wagoner came up in Lexington, Kentucky’s weird and interwoven d.i.y. circles, playing gigs as Silverware as early as 2010. The project started truly finding its shape with a 2014 move to the Bay Area. In the course of getting established in her new zone, Wagoner immersed herself in booking and promoting shows, developing her practice of production and studio playing, working as both a band leader and a supportive player, investing in coalition-building, and generally using Silverware as a vessel to connect with her new community.

San Francisco’s Tony Jay, the solo  project of lo-fi and Fog Pop legend Michael Ramos, former drummer of April Magazine and current member of Flowertown and Sad Eyed Beatniks, a year on from Perfect Worlds, his first record fro Slumberland, gives us two new songs, ahead of the release of Knife Is But A Dream, his new album, which will be out August 16th, 2024 on Paisley Shirt Records, Slumberland Records, and Galaxy Train. Composed and recorded entirely within the confines of his home, the album whispers of quiet companionship as he shepherds a beloved feline through a time of delicate health. This collection delves deeper into the realms of ambient noise and collage, territories previously hinted at in his earlier works. The songs, themselves, retain a skeletal elegance, a stark contrast to the swirling chaos that surrounds them. The final product evokes the image of a charcoal sketch, rendered with swift strokes and unwavering confidence, a fleeting moment of beauty captured for all time.

Phantom Handshakes is a lo-fi, dream pop collaboration between Federica Tassano and Matt Sklar, based in Brooklyn, NY. Their firs output was a mini album in 2020, Be Estranged, recorded at home during April and May of 2020 (mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering in Chicago). The debut full-length, No More Summer Songs, was out in 2021on Z Tapes and the sophomore A Passport to Remain, was out in 2022. Good Intentions, their most recent song, represents the first single from their upcoming LP, Sirens At Golden Hour, which will be out on August 21st. Today we have the opportunity and honour to share with you an exclusive premiere of the second single, Dusk Enchanted, which will be out everywhere on July 16th.