5 Songs from The Faves
This week we picked songs from UK post-punks/new wavers Noise Factory United, garage from New York’s Short Porch, dream pop duo Pearly Drops, Portland shoegazers Kallai, and indie pop project Wotts.
You can also catch up on music from bands like Cosmic Kitten, Welcome Strawberry, Polevaulter and more on our playlist The Faves. Scroll down to listen!
Pearly Drops - End Credits
“‘End Credits’ is about being left behind in someone else’s story,” says Helsinki dream pop Pearly Drops. “It wanders through gardens and lawns, peers in through windows, sinks into moats, and whispers from the trunk of a car. A love letter buried in a dream—half memory, half hallucination. The figure in the song finds peace just in being there, even if trapped in that very trunk. We wrote it like the final scene of a film: the screen fades to black, and all that remains is the echo.” The song is off their upcoming album The Voices Are Coming Back, out 8/29, via Music Website.
Kallai - The Wave
Kallai, the Portland alternative/shoegaze band, has unleashed their new single “The Wave.” The song was inspired by Susan Stryker’s “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix.” It explores the feeling of being a social outcast, vocalist Cate Hukle singing, “I am the monster, I am the rage” We Are Forever, the band’s upcoming full-length debut, is out due this fall via Little Cloud Records.
Noise Factory United - Fractures
British band Noise Factory United fuses sounds of post-punk and new wave on their new single “Fractures.” The song is an examination of opposites, and “captures a gritty fusion of vulnerability and disco-laced defiance.” The four-piece band is currently working on their debut EP, expected to be out next year.
Short Porch - Final Human
New York garage/post-punk band Short Porch prepares for the worst on “Final Human.” It’s a song about an end-of-days prepper, with an anxiety-driven energy to match. On the song, frontman Sean McNulty shares, “...we felt like ‘Final Human’ was a good starting point for this record. When we put some time aside to write we talked a lot about making things more compact, more driving, and wanted to keep the live edge of our shows. We wanted this record to feel like New York. This one checked all those boxes for us. It was recorded completely live with all of us together in a room sweating our asses off. We only went back to do vocals.”
Wotts - i’ll see you when the game resets
Indie pop duo Wotts, who is vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Jayem and bassist/guitarist Ricky 100, has dropped their EP Flank! On the last single “i’ll see you when the game resets,” Wotts leans into the influences of Blur, Pavement, and The Strokes. “This track felt like a real goodbye” says Jayem, “but one that’s layered with hope that endings aren’t necessarily the end, that somehow, somewhere, sometime, we’ll get to do it all over again.”
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New music from Short Porch, Wotts, Pearly Drops, Kallai and Noise Factory Unlimited