
Pehr Records
Started by two former employees of Too Pure, Pehr Records explores the quieter side of indie rock. This young record label has a love of the mellow and the lush. The hushed radiance of Pehr's artists are soothing and engaging, which makes the future of this Bay Area label seem incredibly bright.
Arco
Arco is a mesmerizing London trio that trades in fragile euphoria with spare, understated little pop songs whose unique elegance sticks in your memory.
Coming To Terms
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2000
Empress
Leeds, England's Empress, featuring members of Hood and Boyracer, has crafted a dizzying oxygen mask of melting melodies and gentle guitar breezes.
Empress
Mount Analog
Mount Analog is the soundtrack to a distant nightmare, a collection of experimental ambient sound collages that is undeniable and eerie. This Seattle project is like an experimental surgery gone bad underwater.
Mount Analog
Mus
Spanish duo Mus creates gently shifting ambient soundscapes that sound like the lullabies of the new millennium.
Mus
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2000
Alma
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2000
El Naval
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2002
Swirlies
Boston's The Swirlies deliver a startling brew of polyphonous, many-hued dreamy pop music that pools around you then sucks you in.
The Yes Girls
Timonium
San Francisco's Timonium is a slow and sparce trajectory like Codeine or Low. Developed from whispers and washes, their second album reads like a blurred book.
Suspende Animation
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1999
Resist Education
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2001