You know that feeling when you step outside and the sky is blue and the air smells like fresh-cut grass and pollen and you realize for the first time in months that summer’s on its way? That’s the best way I know how to describe the sentiment attached to Brown Recluse debut “Evening Tapestry.” It’s a delightful blend of psych-pop and 1960’s-inspired indie that could provide the perfect ambiance for a summertime road trip with the windows down and the ocean in view.

Appeals to fans of: Of Montreal, Maritime

-Witler

Tracklist

1. Hobble to Your Tomb
2. Impressions of a City Morning
3. Statue Garden
4. Summer Showers
5. Wooden Fingers
6. Beautiful Light
7. Monday Moon
8. At Last
9. Golden Sun
10. Paisley Tears
11. March to Your Tomb

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Notorious

It’s a story sappier than a Turkish soap opera but realer than Jersey Shore: messy breakup leads to heartbreak, leads to drinking binge, leads to epiphany. In the case of Capulets frontman Stuart McLamb, such an epiphany lead to the formation of a kickass band. The agonizing honesty of McLamb’s lyrics is probably how The Love Language managed to avoid the sophomore slump with “Libraries”, the followup of their 2009 debut “The Love Language.” Despite the heartbreak of McLamb’s lyrics, The Love Language offers a of 1960s-eque sort of energy you can’t help but wiggle to.
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Appeals to fans of: Dinosaur Feathers, Arcade Fire, Surfer Blood , Small Black, Harlem

-Witler

Tracklist

1. Pedals
2. Brittany’s Back
3. This Blood Is Our Own
4. Summer Dust
5. Blue Angle
6. Heart to Tell
7. Anthophobia
8. Horophones
9. Willmont
10. This Room

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Lalita

Were there a melody for every beautifully solitary moment in your life that you wished you could slip into a jar and come back to someday, it is Sean Carey (S. Carey) of Bon Iver side project album “All We Grow”. Tucked inside nine delicately woven tracks are the snap shots from life that mostly go by unnoticed and without meditation. It’s a rain-streaked window, a footprint in the forest and a splinter of blue sky through the trees. The album is earthy and raw; it’s music stripped to its most basic elements—ghostlike vocals accompanied by piano. Though many comparisons will be (and have been) made between this and Bon Iver’s “For Emma Forever Ago,” “All We Grow” manages to develop wings of its own. While this isn’t music for every day, it is the perfect accompaniment for solitude or just a melancholy afternoon.

Appeals to fans of: Bon Iver, Iron and Wine, Fleet Foxes

-Witler

Tracklist

1. Move
2. We Fell
3. In The Dirt
4. Rothko Fields
5. Mothers
6. Action
7. In The Stream
8. All We Grow
9. Broken

Perhaps the first thing to come out of New Zealand since The Lord of the Rings films, The Naked and Famous are likely to be the next big thing not only in their native country, but in the UK and US as well. Their debut album Passive Me, Aggressive You has yet to release in the US, though when it does you won’t want to miss it. The album delivers a sound fresh to the music scene—a marriage of lo-fi synth and poppy rock; it may sound like an awkward mix but they’re able to pull it off with a kickass vocal duo, Alisa Xaylaith and Thom Powers. And their teamwork is powerful. The Naked and Famous brings to the scene a sound full of freedom and energy like a youthful summer’s day, but not the kind of day you simply lounge in. This is life and life is awesome. Keep on the look out for this album. In the meantime, indulge in some free samples.

-Witler

Tracklist

1. All of This
2. Punching in a Dream
3. Frayed
4. The Source
5. The Sun
6. Eyes
7. Young Blood
8. No Way
9. Spank
10. Jilted Lover
11. A Wolf in Geek’s Clothing
12. The Ends
13. Girls Like You

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Bells

Armed with a slew of unconventional instruments and raw talent, New York’s Freelance Whales offer a quirky, youthful freshness that is nearly impossible not to fall in love with. Their debut album Weathervanes strikes a perfect balance between melodic/instrumental innovation and general eccentricity to produce an album that you can’t help but smile while listening to. It’s optimistic without being too poppy and charming without being cheesy. With sweetly idiosyncratic lyrics (i.e., “Shut me up with your long tubesocks/they don’t scream ‘Hey, let’s just be friends’”) and a folksy vibe, Weathervanes manages to fit in with the indie greats of the past decade.

Appeals to fans of: The Postal Service, Arcade Fire, Dawes, Local Natives, Frightened Rabbit

-Witler

Tracklist

1. Generator (First Floor)
2. Hannah
3. Location
4. Channels
5. Starring
6. Kilojoules
7. Broken Horse
8. Danse Flat
9. Ghosting
10. We Could Be Friends
11. Vessels
12. Generator (Second Floor)
13. The Great Estates

Some indie bands are really good at avoiding the oh so dreaded radar. And some, no matter how hard they try, simply can’t help but snatching attention. New York natives, THE BIRd DAY has succeeded thus far in staying indie with the release of their debut album “Collect Vibrations.” Not even available on iTunes, this album is still a guiltfree pleasure for all those bespeckled, American Apparel jacket-wearing followers of the indie movement; it won’t be so unknown for so long though. After some serious pillaging I was able to find this album in its entirety for download and it is worth the dig. It’s always nice to find a band with a positive outlook on life that gushes out of its music. THE BIRd DAY is the kind of feel good, beat-heavy indie band that you don’t want to miss out on.

Appeals to fans of: MGMT,STRFKR, Empire of the Sun, Passion Pit, Casiokids

-Witler

Tracklist

1. Spinning
2. The Past Noise
3. You Will Understand
4. First Wave
5. Feel The Wave
6. Thirsty
7. Gonna Beg You
8. More Movement
9. All Of Mine
10. Space Feeling
11. The 11th
12. Woven Words
13. Five Fingers
14. Feel The Wave Pt. II