Indiepop fans of the WORLD, unite!
Today we have the honor and opportunity to introduce you to a wonderful German duo: The Simple Present. They are an indie pop band from Stuttgart, in southwestern Germany, composed of Cathrin and Sabine. They met at university, where they were both studying to become English teachers. Their love for pop, and indie pop in particular, is evident in the two songs that make up their first single, available for a long time only as a limited physical 7″ lathe cut (KUS-LC 01) exclusively available at Cologne Popfest 2025.
One of the tracks included on the 7″, the first version of Summer Triangle, was released on all streaming platforms on June 22, 2025, and now, exclusively on TRISTE©, you can also listen to the second track, I’ll Take That with Me, which will soon also be available on the band’s Bandcamp page.
Their debut mini-album, which is currently being recorded, will be released on Germany’s top indiepop label, Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten, in late 2025 or early 2026.

Kristin Hersh is a pivotal character in American indie music scene and the undisputed leader of Throwing Muses: her stance against the exploitation of female imagery and her music, which never indulges in the pursuit of easy hooks, and the angry roar with which she declaims difficult and scathing lyrics made her one of the most influential artists in the past forty years. With twelve solo records (from Hips And Makers in 1993 to Clear Pond Road in 2024) and twelve Throwing Muses records (the latest, Moonlight Concessions, out earlier this year via Fire Records), Hersh could be considered a real rockstar. Yet, she is a wonderful person and a truly music lover: upon meeting her, what strikes first is her open smile and refreshing, sincere laugh. She’s a genuine artist, eager to convey her overwhelming love for music to everyone she meets. Her eyes light up with enthusiasm and sparkle whenever she’s asked to talk about her songs, which she considers, more than works of her own intellect, to be true living organisms. Children to be cuddled, raised, and released into the world. That’s why she was so happy to give us a magnificent TRISTE© Mixtape that now we can share with you all. Enjoy!

Lukas Creswell-Rost’s third album (after Go Dream in 2014 and Gone Dreamin’ in 2018) is Weight Away and was out on Friday 4th of July via Wayside & Woodland Records. It was mostly written in Berlin and finished in the UK. We, at TRISTE©, were given the honour and the opportunity to have More Jam Than Bread, the third song from the album, as an exclusive premiere and now that his new album is finally out we can tell you that his music is fantastic and highly original. It shows a profound sensibility and melancholy, and endless influences and sounds, crossing – as Stuart Maconie of BBC 6 Music said- all sorts of genres: a bit pastoral-psych, a bit prog, a bit folk, a bit cinematic. His songs clearly come from the heart and the fact that they are the result of a combination of delicate psychedelia, dream pop and folk gives them a particular charm and a scent of rural England that makes them right at home at Wayside & Woodland Records.