On her third full length TIDE/TIED, Montreal artist Thanya Iyer expands on the future-folk designs of sophomore album KIND with washes of jazz-infected pop and ensemble ambience. While Iyer explored a more personal journey of self-love on KIND, she, her band, and a cohort of guest musicians embark on a new way of moving on TIDE/TIED, prizing collective care and communal healing as antidotes to the dissonances of living in a colonial, capitalistic world.
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Our monthly recap of anything and everything in the world of Topshelf. We get you caught up on music from Thanya Iyer, Ekko Astral, and Subsonic Eye, up to date with a TL;DR digest of the last several weeks of Topshelf news, highlight "For Your Consideration: A Time Agnostic Music Contextualization Effort", and even manage to fit in a newsletter exclusive deal for you too. Read on! ↓↓↓
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Ekko Astral
pink balloons: popped
To commemorate the first anniversary of the band's debut album pink balloons, Ekko Astral present pink balloons: popped, a deluxe CD version featuring the original release's 11 song tracklist along with five bonus tracks including “pomegranate tree” (originally released as a stand-alone single).
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Subsonic Eye
Singapore Dreaming
Their fifth album, Singapore Dreaming, centers their hometown through a more focused lens. Where previous album All Around You comprised a space to sit with the complex feelings inspired by the intense world we inhabit, Singapore Dreaming is that intense world itself — Subsonic Eye’s interpretation of their high energy urban context refracted through straight-to-the-point, poppy, ergonomic songs tinged with tension that could explode at a moment’s notice. Despite the newly honed vision, Singapore Dreaming still has all of Subsonic Eye’s signature elements: spellbinding walls of tone, hooky riffs, zippy rhythms, and punches in the perfect place — all led by singer Nur Wahidah’s dreamlike voice, whose vaporous and velvety character always makes the layers whole.
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recent updates
With an active roster of artists from all around the world, we've got a lot going on as a label! There are a handful of big tours coming up, some re-press pre-orders (including toe's the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety), and we go long on our latest releases:- Subsonic Eye feel the highs and lows of digital life on new single "My iPhone Screen"
- Sobs // North American tour dates with Anamanaguchi
- Montreal's ambient-pop savant Thanya Iyer releases new album 'TIDE/TIED'
- Singapore indie-rock quintet Subsonic Eye announce new album Singapore Dreaming with "Aku Cemas"
- Washington D.C. post-punks Ekko Astral release "pink balloons: popped"
- Thanya Iyer glides through an animated wonderland in her new video for "What can we grow that we can't see from here?"
- Peel Dream Magazine // UK and Europe tour, LP re-press
- Swedish noise-pop upstart Weatherday releases new album 'Hornet Disaster'
- Thanya Iyer moves gracefully in her new video for "I am here now"
- Ekko Astral Spring shows with Mannequin Pussy and Bartees Strange
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For Your Consideration: A Time Agnostic Music Contextualization Effort →
Occasionally, we like to pause and consider ways we can contextualize the music we've released over the years. As we celebrate our 19th birthday this week, we're pairing sonically similar releases from our catalog in a time-agnostic way. Whether you're here for the old stuff and looking for something new, or here for the new stuff and looking for something new to you, we hope you find something to enjoy all the same. Enjoy! read more →
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