Various Small Flames

~ Music curated for humans, by humans ~

Presenting BURN THE ALGORITHM, a limited edition VSF shirt.

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"The sound of an individual reaching out beyond their confines in order to share their energy. Songs are awake when you sing them. Between the performer and the performee flows an electricity."

Alive People by Ruth Garbus, out via Orindal Records.

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"Again that strange sensation suggests itself—rock music as a kind of immortality"

We preview Country Life in America, the upcoming LP by Charlie Kaplan, with latest single 'Gas Station Bathroom'.

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Shady Bug - What's the Use? Various Small Flames review What's the Use by St Louis indie rock band Shady Bug, out on Exploding in Sound Records and available via Bandcamp

"The songs of What’s the Use? come to answer the titular question. To externalise that which has grown stale within you, moult the accumulated weight to emerge anew"

We wrote a (belated) review of the latest Shady Bug release on Exploding in Sound.

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Some new music for the week ahead.

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