Austin-based singer and songwriter Molly Burch announces the release of her fourth studio album Romantic Images, out July 23rd via Captured Tracks. The announcement is accompanied by the release of the exhilarating album opener ‘Control‘ that hears Burch make peace with letting go paired with its mesmerising, fashion-forward video directed by Jackie Lee Young and Burch. The track sets the stage for the album’s guiding light: Burch’s radical choice to shed the anxiety and insecurity of her twenties and embark upon a confident embrace of her truest self. The...
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Juan Wauters releases new album Real Life Situations, featuring collaborations with Mac DeMarco, Homeshake, Nick Hakim, Cola Boyy, El David Aguilar, and more, via Captured Tracks. His fifth solo album, Real Life Situations is a delicate interplay between genre-hopping eclecticism and earnest, plain-spoken observation. Mining older songs, phone notes, new material, and snippets from TV and YouTube, he’s crafted an aural document of the year through his eyes. Jubilant choruses and spoken word poetry...
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Winnipeg songwriter JayWood (aka Jeremy Haywood-Smith), announces his debut EP, Some Days, out April 23 and signing to Captured Tracks. Along with the announcement, Jaywood shares the first single/video ‘Some Days’ via KEXP. Read KEXP’s interview + ‘Some Days’ premiere here. JayWood on Some Days: “It’s been really nice reconnecting with a younger version of myself through this EP, I hope he’s stoked.” JayWood is the pseudonymous indie-alternative project of Jeremy Haywood-Smith from Winnipeg, Manitoba. What started as a bedroom recording project of sad jangle-pop songs, evolved into the psych-funk approach present on JayWood’s latest...
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Juan Wauters shares ‘Estás Escuchando’, featuring five-time Latin GRAMMY nominated artist El David Aguilar. ‘Estás Escuchando‘ is the fourth single from Juan’s forthcoming album Real Life Situations, out April 30, which also features collaborations with Mac DeMarco, Peter Sagar (AKA Homeshake), Nick Hakim, Cola Boyy, and more. Directed by Juan Molinet, the ‘Estás Escuchando’ video is a colourful expression of playful animations. Juan Wauters on ‘Estás Escuchando’: “I had heard of David when I was in Mexico recording ‘La Onda de Juan Pablo’. People there regarded him as one of the most...
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Becca Mancari releases her new digital EP, Juniata, via Captured Tracks. Confronting one’s past doesn’t always end in a fiery explosion – sometimes, acceptance has the quiet strength of water. Mancari knows this; it’s why she chose to name her new EP after the rural Pennsylvania river where she spent much of her childhood. In this new collection, she returns to her past both literally and figuratively, casting new light with a stripped-down selection of some of...
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Juan Wauters shares ‘Unity’, a new collaboration with disco pop multi-instrumentalist Cola Boyy. ‘Unity’ is the third single from Juan’s forthcoming album Real Life Situations, out April 30, which also features collaborations with Mac DeMarco, Peter Sagar (AKA Homeshake), Nick Hakim, El David Aguilar, and more. ‘Unity’ is a hip-hop inspired rumination on partnership and defying expectations that exudes a palpable playfulness. ‘Unity’ follows the “groove-heavy, feel-good” (Remezcla) first single ‘Presentation (with Nick Hakim and Benamin)‘, and the second single ‘Real” (with Mac Demarco)‘ which FADER called an “authentic...
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Becca Mancari announces her forthcoming digital EP, Juniata, out March 19 via Captured Tracks. Along with the announcement, Mancari shares ‘Annie’, a nostalgic tune reminiscent of old hollywood film soundtracks, featuring a lush strings quintet. Listen to ‘Annie’ here. Confronting one’s past doesn’t always end in a fiery explosion – sometimes, acceptance has the quiet strength of water. Mancari knows this; it’s why she chose to name her new EP Juniata, after the rural Pennsylvania river where she spent much of her childhood. In...
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Captured Tracks announces the first retrospective collection from charming lo-fi songwriter Linda Smith titled Till Another Time: 1988-1996 out March 12. Smith’s music has been described as “the gap between C86 and the K Records roster” (Pitchfork) and “intimate and tuneful” (All Music). Along with the announcement, the label releases the first single ‘In This‘ accompanied by a video with iPad drawings from Smith. Watch the video for ‘In This’...
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Juan Wauters announces his forthcoming album, Real Life Situations, featuring collaborations with Mac DeMarco, Peter Sagar (AKA Homeshake), Nick Hakim, Cola Boyy, El David Aguilar, and more, out April 30 via Captured Tracks. Along with the announce, Juan shares a new single and video, ‘Real (with Mac DeMarco)’. Much like preceding single/video ‘Presentation (with Nick Hakim and Benamin)’, ‘Real’ evokes nostalgia for warm days. In the video (directed by Matthew...
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Fresh off the release of their critically-acclaimed fifth album Plum, Widowspeak welcome the new year with Honeychurch, a brand new digital EP. Earlier this month, the duo released their first single, a version of Dire Straits’ ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ that Stereogum called a “hazy rendition” and BrooklynVegan noted “Widowspeak’s signature dreamy, hushed sound is a perfect match for a song like this.“ Widowspeak’s new collection delivers homespun intimations with polished...
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Captured Tracks releases Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983 – 1987, the first volume of Captured Tracks’ new venture into compilations – Excavations. Spread across two LPs, Strum & Thrum includes an 80+ page booklet with an extensive oral history of the ‘80s indie scene, an introduction by Captured Tracks label head Mike Sniper, and tons of archival images and ephemera. The release caught the attention from major...
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Portland’s duo Reptaliens share their EP Wrestling via Captured Tracks. The duo has always been known for their sci-fi, whimsical lyrical themes and theatrical stage shows, but on this EP they’re channeling more of their sophisticated darker synths side. Last month they shared their lyric video for ‘Taking‘ that American Songwriter describe as “apocalyptic” and a “gliding, whirring synth groove.” Reptaliens’ Wrestling EP differs in two major ways from the groups...
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Barcelona trio MOURN release their album Self Worth, via Captured Tracks. Adversity does not incite the best feelings: frustration, anger, fear, anxiety – nothing unusual for today’s world. The members of MOURN know quite a bit about these setbacks, but a latent belief persists within: the negative will eventually become positive. It’s the belief of facing and overcoming a problem. To come out reinforced: the wonder of resilience. It’s the...
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Portland duo Reptaliens announce their forthcoming EP Wrestling out November 6 via Captured Tracks. Along with the announce, the duo share their first single, ‘Taking,’ with a lyric video overlaid on top of the eerie deep red Oregon skies during the wildfires, posing the question “are we existing?” Reptaliens on ‘Taking‘ – “‘Taking’ is about perception and existence. It’s a song that carries the listener through the balance between action...
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Barcelona trio, MOURN, share their fourth single ‘Stay There‘ off their forthcoming album, Self Worth, out October 30 via Captured Tracks. On Self Worth, MOURN is leaving behind abusive ties and externalizing the interior noise, ‘Stay There’ sticks to that empowered spirit. Its fury does not overshadow the vocal arrangements as Jazz sings “No matter what I said/ I’m the form you don’t respect.” MOURN on ‘Stay There’ – “Stay...
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Barcelona trio MOURN, have shared their compelling new single ‘Men.’ ‘Men’ is lyrically patent proof of MOURN’s newfound growth and heightened consciousness. A revealing song, necessary and deliberately uncomfortable. Watch the video for ‘Men’ below. MOURN said on the single – “This song is about walking the streets and having to deal with looks, words and attitudes from different men. To enter a store and be treated differently than male...
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