Kanine US Schallplatten & CDs

Review: We love to see this: Blushing are a dream pop quad from Austin built on hard-wedded nuptial foundations. Two married couples with a shared affinity for 90s shoegaze and breathy melodics combined in 2017 and released early EPs 'Tether' and 'Weak', then a 2019 full-length, to viral acclaim. Now after 2022's Possessions comes a remaster of the first, released initially through the fittingly named Wallflower Records but now through Kanine. At this point, Blushing proved they'd got the shoegaze sound nailed to a thousand-gauss magnet: 'So Many' opens the record with midrange drained, DIY strums, while 'The Truth' stood out as the mid-album revelry, with an accompanying music video documenting a nostalgic wives' video arcade jaunt.

Review: Hong Kong five-piece Lucid Express aim for something between dream pop, shoegaze, washed out, and electronic downtempo, producing a glitzy and emotional sound produced with the utmost quality. Their first-time album 'Floret' is a 500-copy exclusive, and while it marks the band's first commercial LP, is still packed with something of a DIY spirit. Just like the band's expression of intent - 'lucidity' being something that sounds bright and radiant - tracks like 'Venture' and 'Lime' are packed with muted emotions and uncontrollably ecstatic arpeggiations.