Written by Rosali Middleman Recorded by Gerhardt Koerner 2015 Vocals & Guitar - Rosali Middleman Bass & Drums - Gerhardt Koerner

What, exactly, is the interface between shoegaze and singer-songwriter? If we're honest, there's always been this layover, this strange place in the Venn diagram where spaced-out meets inward-looking. Take Rosali, whose windswept "Hangin'" (off the forthcoming Out of Love) bears not just a timeless Joni-singin'-to-the-cliffs-of-Marin vibe but also a spiritualization courtesy of production from Gerhardt Koerner (Hi Soft, Lilys). This is lovely stuff, both recorded and live, no matter which side of the interface you're on.

With the likewise-illuminating Itasca and Wes Tirey & John Bohannon. More info/Facebook invite here. 

This album will be released September 30, 2016 on Paradise of Bachelors. ORDER: PoB: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/pob-30 Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/29KONyH iTunes/Apple Music: http://smarturl.it/PoB30iT Amazon Music: http://smarturl.it/PoB30Am www.paradiseofbachelors.com/itasca The music of L.A.-based guitarist, singer, and songwriter Kayla Cohen is mutable and multivalent, richly allusive of the hermetic worlds of private-press canyon-cult mystics and East Coast noiseniks alike. Her adept fingerstyle guitar work—nimble but unshowy, always at the service of framing her plaintively unspooling modal progressions and gorgeous, moonlit voice—centers these melancholy pastorales in a hazy, heat-mirage space equally suggestive of familiarity and distance, community and anomie. Itasca’s enchanting, acid folk-inflected PoB debut is also the first to feature a full band. This feeling that we, as listeners, have been granted access into Itasca’s private inner sanctum is what helps give [Cohen’s music] its quiet gravity, and her ample instrumental skills and deft songcraft make this invitation well worth your while. – Pitchfork The image of the solitary songwriter strumming away and singing promises transparency, but a chief virtue of Itasca is that she doesn’t give up her secrets too easily. – The Wire Gorgeous acid folk reverie … a heady slice of lysergic ladies of the canyon, with the feel of tropical microdots. – David Keenan