Listen to "Beautiful Place" by Greg Jamie Posted 17 Sep 2025

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"Beautiful Place," the second single from Greg Jamie's forthcoming album of hypnagogic, lo-fi folk pop, Across a Violet Pasture, is now streaming everywhere. For the single's premiere at Foxy Digitalis, Brad Rose wrote:

“Beautiful Place” opens like sunlight piercing through thick clouds, a living drone that sets the tone for small, blossoming hopes. Greg Jamie’s guitar lines tease out melodies as tangled strings become taut once again, bringing focused energy into a beacon of sonic light. Josephine Foster’s voice echoes the sentiment, heightening the repeated refrain, “Can there be a beautiful place where we can go in this world?” It seems like a simple question on the surface, but grows more haunting with each repetition, the answer remaining perpetually out of reach. Plaintive and resonant reflections march forward undeterred, a growing chorus rising while blackening clouds pepper the horizon.

15 Questions recently interviewed Greg Jamie about art, performance, emotion & control. It's a wonderful & revealing read! Find it here.

Across a Violet Pasture by Greg Jamie is out October 10. Pre-order vinyl LPs, tapes, downloads & set of 6 limited edition postcards of Greg's watercolors (including the cover painting) HERE.

Compost Karaoke by Matt Bachmann is out now! Posted 12 Sep 2025

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Compost Karaoke, the new album by New York-based composer & multi-instrumentalist Matt Bachmann, is now available to stream & purchase!

Weaving elements of propulsive jazz, bedroom chamber music, and 80s Japanese synthwork, Compost Karaoketells a story that’s as dramatic as it is intimate, beautiful as it is bombastic. Cinematic in sound and structure, Compost Karaoke unfolds like a journey through a honeycomb – each track a unique chamber connected by sonic fibers to the whole. Compact vignettes act as connective tissue, scaffolding the longer repetitive thematic pillars.

Compost Karaoke is Bachmann’s fourth release with Orindal Records and his first release since becoming a licensed social worker in New York. For Bachmann, Compost Karaoke translates to “songs of change,” marking a transition from past years dominated by touring as the bassist of Mega Bog and his own music to rooting in new work.

“At the heart of this transition was a personal struggle between the ‘clouds’ (art) and the ‘earth’ (the systemic problems of New York/US/world). Doing this more earthly work and having less time for the clouds changed my relationship to music. I had been so inside the music world that I had become blind to its generosity– the way it brings us together and allows us to collectively feel, dream, and escape. Making this record was a lifeline– an opportunity to put my sometimes isolating earthly work aside, and dream a bit with friends.”

Riding this renewed spirit of collaboration, Bachmann leaned heavier on his oldest creative confidants. He enlisted Derek Baron (Reading Group Records) to write woodwind arrangements for the skeletal piano sketches and recorded Baron on drums during an overnight session at the Bunker Studio in Brooklyn; Jeff Tobias (Modern Nature, Sunwatchers) expanded on Baron’s arrangements in moments of improvised rapture on alto saxophone and bass clarinet; and James Krichenia (Big Thief) gummed up the groove with hand drums and percussion. Decorated with synths, vibraphones, and guitar pedal sonic reimagining, Compost Karaoke is a musical habitat wholly unique, yet nodding to Bachmann’s guiding stars—Ryuichi Sakamoto, Natural Information Society, and RJ Miller, to name a few.

To achieve a healthy compost, you need both greens (food scraps) and browns (dead leaves, cardboard, etc.). Compost Karaoke is Bachmann’s attempt to strike a balance; the score to his latest life transition. For the listener, the imaginative movies that play along in their heads are endless.

"odd, tender, a little absurd, and entirely mesmerizing. Everything floats just slightly off-axis but never loses its pull." – Foxy Digitalis

Purchase Compost Karaoke cassettes & downloads HERE.

New Yorkers can see Matt Bachmann perform live at the Compost Karaoke album release show at The Owl in Brooklyn on Saturday, September 13. Iceblink & Adeline Strei support.

Hear as the Mirror Echoes by herbal tea is out now! Posted 29 Aug 2025

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Hear as the Mirror Echoes, the debut album by Bristol, UK's herbal tea, is out now! Find it on your preferred streaming service HERE.

Here's what the press has to say about Hear as the Mirror Echoes:

"wistful, bittersweet, and deeply nostalgic, like flipping through an old photo book of half-forgotten memories." – Under The Radar

"music that exemplifies ambient pop at its loveliest, as structured and singable as it is apt to dissolve into glimmering pools of sweet sound." – Bandcamp

"blissfully woozy, dreamy pop... It’s a very promising album that doesn’t fight for your attention, but just creeps in under your skin and stays there." – No More Workhorse

"With 'Hear as the Mirror Echoes', herbal tea has crafted a debut that feels both timeless and deeply personal, a mirror that reflects not only her own solitude, but perhaps our own as well." – Mystic Sons

"captivating, delicate, and warm" – Unis Son

"herbal tea takes the DIY intimacy of bedroom pop and expands outwards, building what might otherwise be humble demos into rich, nuanced soundscapes, as though the original basis of each track is merely a door through which entire new worlds lie in wait." – Various Small Flames

"full-on Grouper-like ambient pop.” – Stereogum

“wholly captivating.” – GoldFlakePaint

Purchase Hear as the Mirror Echoes on vinyl, cassette or digital dowload HERE.

Customers in UK/EU can purchase from Gold Day.

Watch herbal tea's music video for "Driving Slow" in advance of the August 29th release of their debut album Hear as the Mirror Echoes Posted 27 Aug 2025

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Hear as the Mirror Echoes, the debut album by herbal tea is out this Friday, August 29th!

In anticipation of Hear as the Mirror Echoes' release, herbal tea is sharing a music video for the album's third & final single, "Driving Slow." Under the Radar Magazine premiered the video this morning. UTR's Caleb Campbell writes:

Much like the record’s previous two singles, “Driving Slow” operates at a dreamy, laconic lull, bringing forth the aching and evocative qualities to Walker’s songwriting. However, in contrast to those earlier efforts, the track strips back the layers of swirling instrumentation and reverb, leaving only some sparse acoustic guitar and keys to guide Walker’s lullaby-like vocal tracks. Meanwhile, Walker lilts gently above the spacious instrumentation, her vocals enmeshed in a lo-fi haze. The results feel wistful, bittersweet, and deeply nostalgic, like flipping through an old photo book of half-forgotten memories.

Read the full article, which includes some thoughts on "Driving Slow" from herbal tea's Helena Walker, & watch the music video now on the Under the Radar site.

Greg Jamie announces new album Across a Violet Pasture, shares first single "I'd Get Away" Posted 12 Aug 2025

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An established devotee of dark weirdness, Greg Jamie brings forth his second solo album on Orindal: Across a Violet Pasture (out October 10, 2025). Across ten new songs recorded with his longtime collaborator Colby Nathan, Jamie journeys to the strange, enchanted center of his personal vision. This is a space between sleeping and waking, where Jamie’s woodsy, weary voice guides us forward.

It’s no surprise that the latest from the Maine-based musician and visual artist aims to haunt, but this experimental folk pop does it in a way that’s more playful than funereal. It lays a shimmering floor over the abyss.

The strength of Across a Violet Pasture is its intuitive rawness. It’s art made at home; the product of a deep inner life and a personal mythology. And like Greg Jamie’s uncanny watercolor paintings, this record juxtaposes muted, dark backgrounds with shocks of vibrant color. The “violet pasture” of the title evokes a mix of passionate red and cool, sorrowful blue. The resulting purple is mystical and a little extravagant. It’s a color hardly found in nature. And when it is, like the violet flower, it survives only in dappled forest shade. Admired by hermits, fauns, and idealistic weirdos, there’s a secretive, melancholy, and ephemeral beauty to this work.

"I'd Get Away", the first single from Across a Violet Pasture, is now streaming everywhere.

Greg Jamie on "I'd Get Away":
I’d Get Away is the first song on the album. Making this song felt like a breakthrough for the whole record for me, sonically. It's sort of a surf ballad about letting go of what you can’t change, and moving on from what is final. Transcendence and fog. Clarity after death. Blow up nostalgia and just be. Check out that slide and drift away.

Pre-order Across a Violet Pasture vinyl LPs, tapes, downloads & set of 6 limited edition postcards HERE.

Listen to "Submarine" by herbal tea Posted 06 Aug 2025

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Herbal tea is the DIY recording project of Bristol, UK singer/songwriter/producer Helena Walker. "Submarine," the second single from herbal tea's debut album Hear as the Mirror Echoes, is now streaming everywhere.

Sonically, the track takes inspiration from the titular submersible, creating a foggy, underwater feel by drawing on slowcore, ambient music and lo-fi indie rock. Lyrically, the song lingers on the feeling of longing for warmth and safety, for somewhere out of view, where the listener can disappear.

Helena Walker of herbal tea on "Submarine:"
“When I wrote ‘Submarine’, I thought I was poking at old wounds, but now the meaning keeps shifting as time goes by. It touches on the feeling of wanting to disappear into a safe place, in the night, where you feel invisible. It started as a dreamy demo recorded on my laptop and over time grew heavier and louder. It was the only track where we went to the studio to record drums, which was a new experience for me.”

Accompanying the single is a DIY video, shot on camcorder around Nottingham and entirely filmed and edited by Walker and regular collaborator, Henry C Sharpe (multi-instrumentalist and Gold Day Recordings head-honcho).

“Submarine” follows Hear as the Mirror Echoes’ lead single and opening track, “Seventeen.” Stereogum describes “Seventeen” as “full-on Grouper-like ambient pop.” GoldFlakePaint praises the single as “woozy and melancholy” and “wholly captivating.”

Hear as the Mirror Echoes by herbal tea is out August 29 on Orindal (US) & Gold Day (UK).

Pre-order Hear as the Mirror Echoes on vinyl, cassette & digital formats HERE.

Kristin Daelyn Northeastern US tour Posted 22 Jul 2025

Philadelphia, PA fingerstyle guitarist & singer Kristin Daelyn is hitting the road in September, bringing intimate solo performances to stages across the Northeastern US. She'll be playing songs from her Orindal debut Beyond the Break & sharing bills with likeminded songsmiths like Adeline Hotel, Camp St Helene, Will Stratton, Katy Pinke & her Orindal labelmate Annie Hart!

Dusted Magazine describes Kristin Daelyn's music as "pristine gardens of sound... she picks delicate lattices of shimmering guitar and floats elegiac melodies way up into the stratosphere." Don't miss her live! Get your tickets HERE.

Matt Bachmann announces new album Compost Karaoke, shares music video for "TIAGDTD" Posted 15 Jul 2025

New York-based composer & multi-instrumentalist Matt Bachmann is back with his first new music since 2021's Dream Logic. Compost Karaoke, an entirely new album of "bedroom chamber music" featuring contributions from James Krivchenia (Big Thief), Derek Baron (Reading Group Records), & Jeff Tobias (Modern Nature, Sunwatchers), is Bachmann's most adventurous, engaging & fully realized music to date. Richly decorated with horns, woodwinds, percussion, synthesizers, vibraphones, and guitar pedal sonic reimagining, Compost Karaoke is a musical habitat wholly unique, yet nodding to Bachmann’s guiding stars—Ryuichi Sakamoto, Natural Information Society, and RJ Miller, to name a few.

In advance of Compost Karaoke's September 12th release, Orindal Records is proud to share the album's first single & music video, "TIAGDTD."

Foxy Digitalis premiered "TIAGDTD" yesterday, describing it as "a slow hallucination, spiraling inward with a strange grace. Matt Bachmann builds a rhythmic floor that feels both meditative and unsteady, where Derek Baron’s minimalist drums and James Krivchenia’s congas form a kind of twitchy heartbeat under clouds of bass clarinet and flickering synth debris. The track hovers in that space between stillness and motion, tension and trance. The video leans into that ambiguity, with Bachmann and Sophia Treanor moving in loose, mirrored choreography. Green spandex limbs lock in poses that shift from hypnotic to uncanny. It’s a little like Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno by way of dream logic: odd, tender, a little absurd, and entirely mesmerizing. Everything floats just slightly off-axis but never loses its pull."

From Matt Bachmann:

"TIAGDTD"'s music video was inspired by a behavioral tic of my late father, who would rub his hands together and grimace as he watched television. The video is an attempt to inhabit the alien behavior as an attempt to understand it. It was amazing to collaborate with Adam Baron-Bloch, Sophia Treanor and V Haddad who each brought their beautiful creative selves to help make something beyond what I could have dreamed of.

"TIAGDTD" is an acronym for a Klingon phrase, "Today is a Good Day to Die." The Klingons are the warrior race within the Star Trek universe, valuing honor above all. To Klingons, there is nothing more honorable than dying in battle, hence the phrase. A central tension for Worf, one of the main Klingon characters, is adapting to society within the federation of planets; Klingons are such a spirited race (drinking blood wine, fighting, listening to opera) and to live within the federation's society, Worf has to detach from his culture. I would tear up when Worf would say "Today is a Good Day to Die" because it felt like he was finally permitted to be his full self. I wrote this song while watching Deep Space 9 during the pandemic and it was partially conceived as an ode to Worf.

"TIAGDTD" is now streaming everwhere.


Compost Karaoke is available for pre-order on cassette & digital formats HERE.

herbal tea announce new album Hear as the Mirror Echoes, share music video for "Seventeen" Posted 08 Jul 2025

British DIY artist herbal tea's debut album Hear as the Mirror Echoes drifts in and out like a half-remembered dream, shaped slowly by songwriter/producer Helena Walker from late-night demos that gradually bloomed into expansive arrangements.

Drawing on dream pop, ambient folk, and lo-fi production, and citing influences from Sparklehorse to Sharon Van Etten, there's an otherworldly quality in the way it softly reimagines the familiar. From the ethereal slowcore of "Seventeen" to the 70s folk-inspired "Driving Slow", each track belongs to its own distinct world. The songs swell with ambient textures and bursts of distortion, building into cinematic crescendos before folding back into quiet moments of sparse piano and lo-fi dissonance. Helena's vocals, often recorded at the time of writing, are ghostly with an undercurrent of gravity, submerged within layers of rich harmonies. Themes of impermanence, dissociation, and emotional transience run throughout, with lyrics lifted from dreams, old diaries, and moments of stream-of-consciousness.

“I’ve always felt like a bit of an outsider, and making music is my escape.” Helena says. “I hope this album can be that escape for someone else.”

Orindal (US) & Gold Day (UK) will release Hear as the Mirror Echoes on vinyl, cassette & digital formats on August 29, 2025. Today we're sharing the album's first single "Seventeen" & its accompanying music video directed by Chris Pugh.


One of Helena’s earliest self-recordings, the first of which she felt truly represented her, “Seventeen” has been through several stylistic transformations since the original demo, a process that helped her and, collaborator and childhood friend, Henry C Sharpe (Sleep Radio) develop the overarching sound of the record.

Sonically the song is a lush, cinematic wall of noise combining hazy guitars, piano and synths with Helena’s dreamlike, layered vocals. It’s a tantalising glimpse into her universe. “‘Seventeen’ was written whilst processing trauma, dissociation and a longing to feel free. I wrote the lyrics in a stream of consciousness. It was one of the first songs where I used songwriting and recording as a form of therapy.” Helena elaborates on the themes behind the single. “I held onto this song for years, but it was hard to get it to fit sonically. It went through so many versions until it finally captured the feeling of the demo. That process ended up sparking a domino effect for the sounds and textures that became the foundation of the entire album. There is a section halfway where the chaos stills and the piano and vocals re-emerge. It’s one of my favourite moments on the record.

Pre-order Hear as the Mirror Echoes on vinyl, cassette & digital formats HERE.

Orindal hats are back in stock! Posted 29 Jun 2025

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Lisa/Liza- Ocean Path EP out now! Posted 27 Jun 2025

Ocean Path, a new 5-song EP by Portland, Maine psych folk artist Lisa/Liza, is out now!

“Ocean Path is a look back at the first songs I made in my teens and early twenties, including some of my very first recordings. For me, it is a letter from my younger self.” – Lisa/Liza

Find Ocean Path on your preferred streaming service HERE.

Purchase Ocean Path on limited edition cassette & digital formats HERE.

“Deliberate, unhurried songs made in the image of nature’s patient rhythms" – Various Small Flames

"Spectral and immersive" – Stereogum

"An instant salve" – Post-Trash

Listen to “Summer’s Dust” from Lisa/Liza's forthcoming cassette EP of early home recordings, Ocean Path Posted 10 Jun 2025

On June 27, Orindal Records will release Ocean Path, a 5-song, 27-minute EP of early home recordings by Maine-based singer, songwriter & guitarist Liza Victoria’s long-running psych folk project Lisa/Liza. Ocean Path follows Lisa/Liza’s 2023 album Breaking and Mending, an album described by Stereogum as "Spectral and immersive," Deepest Currents as "Incredible" & Post-Trash as "An instant salve."

“Summer’s Dust,” the leadoff track from Ocean Path, is available to stream today in advance of the EP's June 27 release.

Some words on Ocean Path from Lisa/Liza’s Liza Victoria:

Ocean Path is a look back at the first songs I made in my teens and early twenties, including some of my very first recordings, such as “Gamble.” For me, it is a letter from my younger self.

This cassette leads down paths of memory, reminding me we are always becoming and growing into who we are and what will be.

There is a peace and sense of pride in holding these songs now in the form of a curated cassette, giving them a place to be.

I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to share my inner world with others. And now I see where that lead me and feel gratitude for the path set out before me.

Each song holds time between it, at least a year between each, love and memory, and different worlds of view, threads between them.

As much as I hope this cassette shares a small piece of me with others, it is also a little sign on the road that says “keep going.”

Knowing all there is that encourages the path to roll forward, friends, different lives, and loves met along the way, encouraging me to hit record and to sing a little louder. It feels hopeful and is a feeling of being held.