Our monthly recap of anything and everything in the world of Topshelf. We get you caught up on music from Peel Dream Magazine, Maneka, and Mal Devisa; up to date with a TL;DR digest of the last several weeks of Topshelf news; highlight how We've launched a donation initiative for aid in Gaza — Join us in the fight for liberation!; and even manage to fit in a newsletter exclusive deal for you too. Read on! ↓↓↓

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Taurus season is upon us.

One year from the release of acclaimed album Rose Main Reading Room, Peel Dream Magazine returns with new mini album Taurus.

Spanning eight previously unavailable tracks that were originally recorded for their lush and inviting 2024 full length, Taurus offers a wider glimpse into songwriter Joseph Stevens' process and creative output from those sessions.

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Recommended if you like: Stereolab, Air, Belle & Sebastian, Julia Holter, Jessica Pratt, blue sky Nat-Geo pop
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Pick up a copy on their upcoming North American tour, or pre-order a copy from us:

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Maneka
bathes and listens

In addition to past work in bands Speedy Ortiz and Grass is Green, Devin McKnight has long written his own music as Maneka, releasing his solo debut Is You Is in 2017. On 2022’s Dark Matters, McKnight set out to explore the full range of his experiences as a studio and touring musician, delivering a striking, unclassifiable mesh of genre influence through which McKnight deftly explored the anxieties of working as a Black man in majority white indie rock spaces. On his 2025 follow-up, bathes and listens, McKnight focuses his vision on Maneka’s musical identity, resulting in a more grounded album that still tests the extremes of his songwriting talent. Elements of shoegaze and slowcore are prominent, but engineer Alex Farrar's exceptional production (Wednesday, Snail Mail, MJ Lenderman) makes bathes and listens cohesive, yet still distinct from any one style.

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Mal Devisa
Palimpsesa

Deja Carr’s lyrics for her recording project Mal Devisa are cleverly verbose, their delivery like lightning whispering into the haunting DIY spaces where she cut her teeth. Such boundless inspiration and style are central facets of Mal Devisa’s work, whose sonically and narratively unrestrained passages teem with empathy and liberatory visions for a better world.

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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! Basically everyone is touring right now or will be soon, so check out who's headed your way:

Palestinian Liberation == Collective Liberation

We've launched a donation initiative for aid in Gaza — Join us in the fight for liberation! →

[UPDATE: we are at $406 of our $1k goal for September] To combat the devastation caused and yet to come, we are raising funds for The Sameer Project, a donations based aid initiative run by Palestinians in the diaspora. Currently, The Sameer Project is focused on the distribution of food, water, and tents in South Gaza. Their work is of the utmost urgency as the Israeli blockade continues. Learn more about The Sameer Project and donate today read more →

the bottomshelf

2020 was kind of a sleeper year for releases for us. The next twenty people to use the code THROWBACK get 30% off your order of anything we released that year. pick it up →

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