Gap Year — In Light

Gap Year’s latest single ‘In Light’ gives us another taste of their second album, due later this year.

On a record full of incredible writing and playing, this tune is the highlight for me. There’s something deeply uplifting and/or emotive going on. Some perfect combination of contrary motion in the instrumentation and vocal blend. It particularly hits hard into the final chorus with those double time hi-hats.

From the band:

‘In Light’ is a tribute to the unspoken magic of empty dance floors—a love song to the spaces that shape our most meaningful moments.

Out now on Blue Grey Pink.

‘In Light’ is in the RTRFM Sound Selection for the week starting March 24th, 2025. And, the WL//WH Track of The Day on March 25th.

“In Light”, somehow a mix of The Go Betweens and Prefab Sprout pristine melodicism, a quaint love song urgently unravels through pulsating drums that dictate the sparkly pace alongside humming basslines, (WL//WH)

Engineering and mix by Rhien Tan
Artwork by Maddy Blue
Mastered by Dan @ENCODERSound

Stuart Orchard — That Old Thing Again

Stuart Orchard releases That Old Thing Again. It’s a single produced by Michael Terren with accompanying, duelling remixes from Ylem, and Damian Giambazi.

This one’s an odd metre, often syncopated number conjuring shades of Thom Yorke. With Stuart’s vocal performance a real highlight. The remixes really pick up quite different threads in the original and run with them. Precise, intense, lite-industrial descriptors of Ylem’s work and Giambazi far more enveloping, floating and ethereal.

Produced by Michael Terren
Remixed by Ylem and Damian Giambazi
Music and artwork by Stuart Orchard Typography by Rhys Butler
Mastered by Dan @ENCODERSound

Teen Angst — I'm Rot

Teen Angst’s self professed “gloomsville era” continues with ‘I’m Rot.’ The second single off the upcoming Cerulean EP.

I’m feeling a handheld camera, relationship montage video would appropriately set this one. Musically, the guitar tones feel really nice and the arrangement unfolds organically into a memorable refrain.

This one drops into the RTRFM Sound Selection for the week of March 10th, 2025

Recorded and mixed by Rhien Tan at Cue Sound
Mastered by Dan at ENCODER Sound

Ohmu — the days before/the days after

Ohmu returns with the double single the days before/the days after, out now everywhere.

Very cool double single from Ohmu. As with their debut from ‘23, everything just flows with a big focus on groove and texture.

‘The days after’ drops into the RTRFM Sound Selection for the week of March 3rd, 2025.

Composed, produced and mixed by Balin Jennings
Artwork by Saskia Hast
Mastered by Dan @ENCODERSound