Yards & Gods

“The busy three way intersection of psychedelia, indie rock, and IDM” (Mike Rengel: PLAYBACK:stl)

Sexy but creepy, adorable but dark and droney, Conceal & Carry conveys all these things by layering analog synths and vintage electric pianos.

Their sound pulls influences in from late 1960s and early 1970s krautrock bands like Ash Ra Tempel and Tago Mago era Can with some of the noise experiments of Faust.

Their sound reflects the complexities of human interactions and difficulties of existence from the voice of a restless soul crying out from the bottom of your empty bottle.

Subtly meditative, In Dark Trees relies on the power of lyricless music to communicate—abstractness is expressed abstractly without cliché.

The Makeouts and the Pale Family: a strange case of multiple personality disorder, or two great bands bundled into one?

Masters of reverb, delay, distortion, loops, puns, and supreme hipness, Burger Kingdom has been churning out hazey lo-fi shoegaze since summer 2008

The duo’s sonic vocabulary is vast and ranges from startling beauty to violent eruptions of circuit-bent, blown out cascades of sound.

Arthurian Honey is the brainchild of former child prodigy turned average citizen James Alex Hilderbrand.

Pop rock explosions that assault the listener with aggressive vocals, hearty basslines, and dynamic percussion. Ursus Arctos is like a bear attack in rock form.