Pad drifts from baroque pop to bossa nova, folk, and homemade post-punk with unhurried confidence. Peel Dream Magazine make the ornate feel casual, the mellow feel quietly alive.
Great Grandpa’s Four of Arrows trades scrappy charm for something roomier and more devastating. The band’s folk-rock turn keeps its indie pulse, but lets every fragile chorus land with cinematic weight.
Night Moves return with Double Life, a soft-focus rock record shaped by hard luck and long drives. Its warmth feels earned, its coolness unforced, its rough breaks buffed into AM-gold shimmer.
Laveda sharpen their dream-pop blur into something heavier and more weathered. Love, Darla keeps the Sunday haze, but lets the guitars press harder against the glass.