"A joyous, if slightly dangerous, celebration of being alive" Listen to the title track from Death Drive, a new LP by Eliza Edens coming soon via First City Artists. varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/09/03/e...

Eliza Edens - Death Drive

Various Small Flames preview Death Drive, the new album by Eliza Edens forthcoming via First City Records, with the new single and title track

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"While the track takes place within a personal storm, it is always reaching for a greater perspective" @shainahayes.bsky.social shares single 'Tempest' from new album Take the Case of a Rose, coming via @bonsound.bsky.social. varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/09/01/s...

Shaina Hayes - Tempest

Various Small Flames preview Take the Case of a Rose, the new album from Shaina Hayes via Bonsound, with latest single 'Tempest'.

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Big thanks to Various Small Flames for writing about In Milwaukee, my surprise live album w/ Moontype. :)

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Our final Weekly Listening of August 2026 features @advancebase.bsky.social, Caleb Elliott, Eric Angelo Bessel, Lamplight (@westernvinyl.bsky.social), Rayland Baxter (@atorecords.bsky.social ), Spring Colours, Stephen Steinbrink (@mansionsandmillions.bandcamp.com)...

Our final Weekly Listening of August 2026 features @advancebase.bsky.social, Caleb Elliott, Eric Angelo Bessel, Lamplight (@westernvinyl.bsky.social), Rayland Baxter (@atorecords.bsky.social ), Spring Colours, Stephen Steinbrink (@mansionsandmillions.bandcamp.com)...

"Might open with a sense of hesitation, but what emerges is affirming in its resolve, acting in spite of vulnerability & regret in order to move towards a healthier way of living" @waltzerr.bsky.social share 'Counting Clovers' from LP Tomorrow Will Be Better varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/08/27/w...

waltzerr - Counting Clovers

Various Small Flames preview Tomorrow Will Be Better, the debut album from Seattle's Waltzerr, with latest single 'Counting Clovers'

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"A record able to live up to its title: ambiguous in nature & all the more alluring because of it, where the hard-won wisdoms of a life well lived are matched by the flickering sense of some unforeseen possibility" Apocrypha by henry o henry on Western Vinyl varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/08/26/h...

henry o henry - Parade

Various Small Flames preview Apocrypha, the new album from henry o henry forthcoming via Western Vinyl, with single 'Parade'

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Thank you @varioussmallflames.bsky.social for writing about Claire Cronin's new single "Black Water"!

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Our latest Weekly Listening features Claire Cronin (@orindal.bsky.social & A Moth Object), @cloudbellytheband.bsky.social, Great Klons, koleżanka, @laelneale.bsky.social (Consensual Sound), @marikache.bsky.social...

"A pledge to future action in the name of care and love no matter which planets might be reversing or obstacles fall in the way" Kate Prascher shares 'Retrograde' ahead of new album Sunday Afternoon coming via First City Artists. varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/08/26/k...

Kate Prascher - Retrograde

Various Small Flames preview Sunday Afternoon, the forthcoming album by Kate Prascher on First City Artists, with final single 'Retrograde'.

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Our latest Weekly Listening features Claire Cronin (@orindal.bsky.social & A Moth Object), @cloudbellytheband.bsky.social, Great Klons, koleżanka, @laelneale.bsky.social (Consensual Sound), @marikache.bsky.social...

"A succinct yet potent confession [...] does not lack energy but seems to linger in the same space, like a message delivered from a chopper hovering low over your old house" 'Private Failure' from the S/T EP by King's Evil on @worrybeadrecs.bsky.social varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/08/24/k...

King's Evil - Private Failure

Various Small Flames preview the self-titled album from King's Evil, coming via Worry Bead Records, with single 'Private Failure'

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"Possesses an admirable ability to meld searching emotion with a fresh, cathartic energy, able to occupy more than one mood within the same three minutes" D.L. Forrest, the new project from Daniel Forrest of Buddie, has shared a new single, 'Can't Sleep' varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/08/21/d...

D.L. Forrest - Can't Sleep

Various Small Flames review 'Can't Sleep', the latest single from Vancouver-based songwriter D.L. Forrest, featuring runner.

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"Lesser acts might be overwhelmed if tasked with exploring concepts of loss & mortality [...] but with a unique blend of compassion and abstraction, it seems Hour are up to the task" Ghost Bridge, the new LP by Hour on @dearliferecs.bsky.social varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/08/18/h...

Hour - Ghost Bridge

Various Small Flames review Ghost Bridge, the new album from Philadelphia ensemble Hour, on Dear Life Records.

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Our latest Weekly Listening features Alex G (@waxworkrecords.bsky.social), Bonnie Hook, Cooper Kenward, @essysparrow.bsky.social, Lane Hartley (@royaloakie.bsky.social), @lostfilm.bsky.social...

Not merely a repatriation but a complete reversal, taking that which has been desiccated for preservation & rehydrating it so that it might once again exist in its natural form Mali Obomsawin introduces new album Automatic, out via @ooyhrecords.bsky.social varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/08/13/m...

Mali Obomsawin - Automatic

Various Small Flames preview Automatic, the new album from Abenaki Nation, Odanak musician Mali Obomsawin coming via Out Of Your Head Records

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"Manages to evoke both the intimacy of personal experience & something far larger, bringing in the melancholy of the archtypal wanderer in search of meaning" Jonathan Something shares 'Gasoline' ahead of LP One More Lonesome Cowboy Song, via High Shelter varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/08/13/j...

Jonathan Something - Gasoline

Various Small Flames preview One More Lonesome Cowboy Song, the latest album from Jonathan Something via High Shelter.

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"At once buoyant and bruising... seems to want to both dance with you and slap you around that face" @perennialtheband.bsky.social's share single 'Ready! Steady! Go!' ahead of LP Modernism on @ejrc.bsky.social & @safesuburban.bsky.social varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/08/12/p...

Perennial - Ready! Steady! Go!

A preview of Ready! Steady! Go! by Connecticut band Perennial, ahead of album Modernism on Ernest Jenning Record Co and Safe Suburban Homes.

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Our second Weekly Listening of August 2026 feat. Applied Communications (@barnonerecords.bsky.social), Black Duck & Elena Setién @thrilljockey.bsky.social), Burley, @hockitay.bsky.social (@futuregods.bsky.social), Jordan Sand (@hallowground.bsky.social), June McDoom (@jagjaguwar.bsky.social) cont.⬇️

"More than a voicing of frustration, ‘Open Mic’ pushes deeper to meditate on the emotions underlying ambition & disappointment, & how we might show up for one another to better navigate the bumpy road" Sweetbreads share a new single ahead of LP, Punisher varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/08/07/s...

Sweetbreads - Open Mic

Various Small Flames preview Punisher, the forthcoming album from Melody Stolpp's Sweetbreads, with latest single, 'Open Mic'.

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Bristol-based outfit The Cindys share new single 'Glass Shattered' via Breakfast Records ahead of a string of festival appeareances including @greenmanfest.bsky.social, @endoftheroadfestival.com & @boiafestival.bsky.social. varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/08/06/t...

The Cindys - Glass Shattered

Various Small Flames preview 'Glass Shattered', the brand new single from Bristol indie pop outfit The Cindys on Breakfast Records.

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"Crafted from Euclidean sequencing and pitch-shifted guitar tones to again create a sound full of dualism—be that between shadow and light or detail and space." 'Clerestory Windows V' by Jules Reidy, from LP Clerestory coming via @thrilljockey.bsky.social varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/08/05/j...

Jules Reidy - Clerestory Windows V

Various Small Flames preview Clerestory, the new full-length LP from Jules Reidy on Thrill Jockey, with latest single 'Clerestory Windows V'

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Our first Weekly Listening of 2026 features Brody Price (@GarHoleRecords ), Charlotte Greve (New Amsterdam), Jason Calhoun (Dear Life Records), Kate Prascher, Matthew Squires & Sunk Coast...

"Held together by a sense of cohesion yet willing to push the boundaries of the Dog Shaped sound" Check out our review of Reason, a new EP from Dog Shaped. varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/07/31/d...

Dog Shaped - Reason

Various Small Flames review Reason, the new EP from indie folk-rock project, led by Emily Cabarle and the former band Sue Your Landlord.

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"Draw[s] the audience into a cinematic representation of love, loneliness & longing" @daydreamingwinter.bsky.social shares a new version of 'without you' ft. Soccer Mommy. New EP Romantix Mixtape out soon via @w1nspear.bsky.social varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/07/30/w...

Winter - without you (feat. Soccer Mommy)

Various Small Flames preview Romantix Mixtape, the new EP from Winter on Winspear, with single 'without you' featuring guest Soccer Mommy.

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"Just as a geothermal spring is both contained by the land and capable of shaping it, the music of Duffy and Uhlmann seems at once controlled by its creators and somehow controlling them" Duffy x Ulhmann unveil new EP, Hot Creek, via @orindal.bsky.social. varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/07/29/d...

Duffy x Uhlmann - Hot Creek

Various Small Flames preview Hot Creek, the new album by Duffy x Uhlmann (Megan Duffy and Gregory Uhlmann), coming soon via Orindal Records

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"What might be the band’s most propulsive single to date, the song grapples with the long tail of a break-up, attempting to break free from the spell of a relationship that won’t quite let you go" @vanchamberlainnyc.bsky.social share new track 'Fantasy TBD' varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/07/27/v...

Van Chamberlain - Fantasy TBD

Various Small Flames preview As Far As The Eye Can See, the forthcoming album from New York's Van Chamberlain, with new single 'Fantasy TBD'

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Our latest Weekly Listening ft. Great Klons, henry o henry (@westernvinyl.bsky.social), @brosaleigh.bsky.social, (@audioantihero.bandcamp.com, Jude Brothers, King's Evil, Legit Smitty, Oh, Hooray, Promiseland BBQ + @torysilver.bsky.social...

"The tracks are recorded via Tascam 424 Portstudio & are stronger for it, the woozy tones and matte finish again evoking a landscape in which the real & surreal merge into something as tactile as it is strange" Stone Eating Animals EP by Richard Tripps varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/07/22/r...

Richard Tripps - Stone Eating Animals EP

Various Small Flames review Stone Eating Animals, the new EP from Oakland, California-based songwriter Richard Tripps.

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Can always trust @varioussmallflames.bsky.social to write about the good stuff. varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/06/16/d... @darrenhayman.bsky.social

Darren Hayman - The Violence

Various Small Flames review The Violence (Expanded Edition) by Darren Hayman & The Long Parliment, including single 'We Are Not Equal'

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Have you heard David James Allen's new single "Dukes Up (Since You've Been Gone)"? Inspired by the classic Memphis Hi Records sound, it will be on DJA's album Jubilation Potpourri this fall! #CanadianMusic Check it out at @varioussmallflames.bsky.social: varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/07/09/d...

David James Allen - Dukes Up (Since You've Been Gone)

A review of Dukes Up (Since You've Been Gone) by David James Allen, from the album Jubilation Potpurri on Littleknown Records.

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A wonderful single review and album preview for @brosaleigh.bsky.social from @varioussmallflames.bsky.social! 'If I Let It Quiet' is out in 7 days! varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/07/17/j...

Josaleigh Pollett - Bed of Quiet

A preview of the single Bed of Quiet by Josaleigh Pollett, from the album If I Let It Quiet on Audio Antihero and Lavender Vinyl.

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