Meritorio Rock & Indie 20 Items

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Meritorio)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Whitney's Playland is the pandemic-era project of Inna Showalter and George Tarlson, longtime friends and veterans of the music scene (grandma’s Boyfriend, Blades OF JOY, Modern Charms). Having grown up in and around San Francisco and inspired by their experiences, their music is about the usual things in life: love and loss, sometimes with a wry and sardonic angle. The result is a dreamy pop landscape reminiscent of Yo La Tengo, Guided by Voices, the Sundays, and Dinosaur Jr. The band expanded into a four-piece in late 2022 with the addition of Evan Showalter and Paul Demartini.

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The Telephone Numbers

Weird Sisters

13,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Following on from 2021's The Ballad Of Doug LP, San Francisco’s THE Telephone Numbers are back with a brand new 7inch entitled 'Weird Sisters.' "I often feel like I can only write one song over and over. 'Weird Sisters' was a conscious attempt of reconciling myself with this sense. To me the song is a grab-bag of many of the songwriting tricks I’ve picked up over the years and a celebration of my limitations."—Thomas Rubenstein (The Telephone Numbers).

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The Smashing Times

Bloom

29,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Meritorio)

The Small Intestines

Hide In Time

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In 2013 Tristan dreamt George Harrison and Tom Petty were on motorcycles circling one of those huge roundabouts in Canberra. Their long hair was blowing as they sang "You can't hide in time". The Small Intestines play spare room rock'n'roll with a penchant for three-piece harmonies. They formed in Melbourne, Australia in 2016 while Matt and Rob were taking some downtime from Chook Race and Tristan was on the tail-end of his solo project, Peach Happening. Hide In Time is their debut album. For fans of The Go-Betweens and The Bats and any genuine big-hearted knockabout indie jangle with sweet sing-along group vocals and simple pared-down arrangements.

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The Maureens

Everyone Smiles

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Maureens: the perfect soundtrack for a late summer night, though the band gives you that feeling just as easily on a sunday afternoon in February. The band is a Dutch four piece founded in 2012. Originating from the central Utrecht music scene, the band nowadays operates from the rural east of the Netherlands. It hasn’t changed the sound of The Maureens: the melancholic songs of Hendrik-Jan de Wolff exude love of melody and harmony. The band's fourth album, Everyone Smiles, features 13 sparkling pop songs recorded with legendary Dutch producer Frans Hagenaars in Studio SSE-Noord.

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The Infinites

Archetypes

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Meritorio)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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From Austin, Texas, The Infinites started as Dan LeVine playing guitar loops while Jared Leibowich sang songs on top of the loops about imaginary people. They eventually asked Ian Rundell, Miles Kelley, and Sam Jordan to join, and the band released their first album in 2019, with each song being a short story about an imaginary person. Album two continues the theme of short stories for each song, but instead of imaginary people, each song explores a certain kind of archetype. The band's name, The Infinites, is influenced by both the never-ending loops that are the foundation of each song as well as the infinite universe that the band is trying to create, filled with a continuous array of unique characters.

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The Brights

Oyster Rock!

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Meritorio)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Brights are a Sydney, Gadigal based band who write folk and alt-country leaning indie rock. After two greats EPs. they are back with their first LP ‘Oyster Rock!’ Their debut album is another DIY effort gem boasts soothing jangly guitars and infectious melodies. "The Sydney band offers up a lived-in and laconic slice of jangle-pop goodness. Sauntering slow, 'Waiting' winds out of the speakers with a delightfully unhurried air. Cedar-sweet strums mingle with background vocals and just a slight touch of twang for a song that’s never showy, but can’t help but spread a slow smile across the face. A perfect accompaniment to summer’s glow."—Raven Sings The Blues

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Stephen's Shore

Neptune

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Stephen's Shore from Stockholm, Sweden brings you a new EP called Neptune. The four tracks were recorded live by the band during a hot September day in Stockholm, together with Fredrik Swahn (Dungen, Melodys Echo Chamber). What inspires these songs is the love for summer nights, nature, and the joy of creating music together as a band. Stephen's Shore have released two EP ́s (Green in 2022 and "Brisbane Radio in 2020) and one album (September Love in 2018) on indie label Meretorio Records. Their debut single "Ocean Blue" was released on New York's indie label Cloudberry Records 2016. In 2022 They feature on a Creation Records Tribute, released by Crafting Room Records with a cover of Biff bang pow's "Miss California toothpaste 1972". The Stephen's Shore Live in Hamburg cassette is a self-released live recording from the small (now closed) legendary venue, Astra Stube in Hamburg in the summer of 2023. Pressed on blue vinyl.

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Spice World

There's No I In Spice

Vs. California Transparent Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Spice World are a 4-piece band formed on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja (Fremantle, WA) for a one-night-only performance in early 2021 before their drummer Julia had to rush back to Melbourne a few days later. This performance was surprisingly well-received and so Spice World continued with occasional shows, sometimes in a more soft-edged trio format. When Julia returned to Perth for a Christmas visit in 2021 they decided to capture the sound of the band in full. But time was running out before Julia had to leave again—so, they set up for a day of recording in their living room. With little knowledge of recording a band, this ten-track album was recorded all completely live in just 5 hours. Endearingly scrappy, Spice World perform DIY, ad-hoc pop music that is sometimes sad and sometimes silly, but always offered in earnest. They bring a punk mindset and laissez faire approach to sun-drenched kitchen table music. Join in whenever you want!.

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Semi Trucks

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Meritorio)

21,74 €* 28,99 € -25%

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Meritorio)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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From California rising indie music scene, Semi Trucks are the latest gem to brandish this blend of lo-fi bedroom pop that feels like the waves rolling ashore on a windless day.Semi Trucks, created, fronted, and curated by California bred Brendan Sepe, are a "magic school bus"-esque escapade on track to bring art pop to the top of the charts. The duality of Sepe's teenage-esque, yet cosmopolitan song writing charms to the point of blushing all listeners-with me being no exception. You may know Sepe from hisprior engagement to the band the Pesos. This led him to get his foot in the door in the dank, dark music scene of Los Angeles. LA, where dreams are chewed up and spit out. Fortunately, Sepe has no dreams. He tells me all he truly wants is to be heard by kids twenty years from now in hopes to inspire them. He's a man of the future.Laying tile by day, and laying tile by the next morning, Sepe aches to create and has done so immensely with his debut "vs California". The Semi Trucks are like eating your favorite American meal laced with sincerity, struggles, love, freedom and euphoria. Semi Trucks, in the words of Brendan Sepe to you, "thank you, for being there."

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Sad Eyed Beatniks

Ten Brocades

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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San Francisco’s Sad Eyed Beatniks are back with their new album Ten Brocades. With the help of Mike Ramos (Tony Jay, Flowertown) and Karina Gill (Cindy, Flowertown), Kevin Linn creates a new passage into their incredible sound world. The songs on Ten Brocades explore encounters in short moments in time, fading memories, friendships, and relationships; all from personalities whose stories seem to interweave with one another. The title Ten Brocades is the literal translation of a Cantonese chop suey-like dish, subgum, which means “numerous and varied.” The merging of multiple identities and the image of many silken adorned fabrics helped guide which tracks ended up on the album. The songs on Ten Brocades explore encounters in short moments in time, fading memories, friendships, and relationships; all from personalities whose stories seem to interweave with one another. “When I was a kid, I would spend the summers with my father and stepmother at their apartment in a suburb just north of Stockholm. Most mornings, I would wake up to the smell of burning incense, the sounds of recorded shamisen & koto ensembles, and the sounds of my dad tending to his extensive orchid collection. One summer my dad gifted me a number of graphic novels that were translated and heavily adapted versions of classic Chinese novels for young readers; Journey To The West and Outlaws Of The Marsh were my favorites. The vast casts of characters, mythical adventures, and humorous situations that take place in these historical settings allowed me to connect to a culture of mine I always had a hard time accessing. Ten Brocades is like those comic books—but maybe these characters, adventures, and settings are a little more local.”—Kevin Linn aka Sad Eyed Beatniks.

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Oh Boland

Western Leisure

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Irish band Oh Boland is back with Western Leisure. The record marks a progression in Oh Boland’s sound with the familiar garage squall tempered by Wyatt-esque psychedelics, New Wave skronk and Bakersfield country all buoying personal songs of rural inertia and the dark edges of parochial life. Western Leisure, the dynamic third record from Oh Boland, is not just an enthralling document detailing the darkened corners and unseemly characters you often hear tell of in forgotten parochial towns of the past, but it marks the beginning of an exciting chapter in the band’s story. Oh Boland’s sound has been described as having a “rare potency”, one that exists in their live shows and two records, their 2016 debut Spilt Milk which featured in Pitchfork’s “Best Underground Garage Punk Albums” of that year and its equally visceral successor, Cheap Things. Over the course of the Tuam-via-Dublin-based band’s lifespan, Oh Boland has existed in several guises and their forthcoming third record heralds a compelling new phase as the solo project of founding member, Niall Murphy. The self-produced Western Leisure (mixed and mastered by Mikey Young of Eddy Current Suppression Ring and Total Control) signifies a electrifying artistic evolution spurred by Murphy’s unwavering musical curiosity which hears him experiment with wistful Country motifs alongside Oh Boland’s synonymous noise-rock tendencies. Pressed on red vinyl.

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Model Shop

Love Interest

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Meritorio)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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HIGHLIGHTSPlayful and smart, quietly surreal and unguardedly romantic, Model Shop (Seattle, Washington) evoke the soundtrack to a lost John Hughes film. With touchstones in 80s college rock, 90s alternative, and indiepop of a more recent vintage, they create guitar pop with shaggy hooks and well-coiffed harmonies.Model Shop combine sparkling melodies, iridescent harmonies, and breezy, wistful guitars in their new album "Love Interest".DESCRIPTIONRising from Seattle's indie pop and rock scenes in 2019, Model Shop was the natural next step for longtime friends and bandmates Kevin Emerson and Ethan Jones, who played together in indie pop darlings Math and Physics Club. Over the years, they had crossed paths with bassist Jen Fox, and bonded over their love of melodic, effervescent pop music.After playing their first shows just before the pandemic, the band tracked their debut LP, Love Interest, mostly in their separate rooms, before coming together to finish vocals and mix with Martin Feveyear in the fall of 2021.Combining sparkling melodies, iridescent harmonies, and breezy, wistful guitars, Model Shop's tightly crafted pop songs frame modern stories of love and longing through a nostalgic lens, evoking lush summer drives and luminous city nights.

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Model Shop

Check The Forecast

13,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Seattle’s Model Shop returns with ‘Easy Winter’, the lead single from their upcoming Check the Forecast EP, and the follow-up to the pop trio’s acclaimed debut LP, Love Interest (2022), which was heralded as ‘a masterpiece full of sparkling melodies and rainbow-colored harmonies,’ and ‘one of the finest indie pop albums of the year.’ Love Interest garnered fans and spins across the globe, pages of rave reviews, and appeared in rotation and on the charts at legendary Kexp 90.3. Formed in 2019 by descendants of indie pop darlings Math and Physics Club, Model Shop spins shimmering melodies and acrobatic pop hooks that probe the ether of love and longing, evoking lost ages and still-luminous possibilities. Their music is ‘a joyous slice of indie pop that takes heavy artillery to any lingering grey clouds,’ and evokes ‘that feeling of being suddenly knocked out of one's heart.’.”

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Laughing

Because Its True

31,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Jim Nothing

In The Marigolds

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Meritorio)

Fort Not

Depressed For Success

10 Songs I Hate About You

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Swedish duo Fort Not are back with their sophomore album Depressed For Success. With eternal love for indie-pop and bands like Half Japanese, Tiger Trap and Pavement, they always aim to find that imperfect pop song with beautiful melodies. Fort Not are getting ready for the Major Leagues. They are back with an album full of songs about love, sex and success. This time they have a couple of lo-fi ballads, perfectly served with the taste of your lovers lips. Love and respect one another and find someone that treats you as good as your new indie darlings Fort Not is treating you. If you don’t like it slow, no worries! There are also some pop songs for you to dance your ass off to. And to make everyone happy, a handful likeable mid-tempo tunes, best enjoyed with a cold drink.

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Dancer

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Meritorio)

26,99 €*

LP | 2019 | ES | Original (Meritorio)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Glasgow based band Dancer present their debut full length album, 10 Songs I Hate About You. The album came about somewhat effortlessly, piecing together old and new songs and striving to evoke the influences of the group: Life Without Buildings, Elastica, Owls, The Cardigans and Altered Images, into one swaggering debut dipped into a condiment of emotion and good humor. Written throughout 2023 and recorded over a weekend in August of that year, Dancer returned to Green Door studio and recorded this debut LP live to tape with Ronan Fay, as with their 2 proceeding EPs. Looking to strike the perfect balance between these previous extended plays and something more, they attempt to truly define a Dancer sound in the long play format. The 10 songs in question push, pull and then elaborate on former characteristics—only now they are skewed into greater pop forms; caressed by jittery rhythms and searing guitar-isms that dive into passages of melodic wool and warmth. All using an energy that even the band themselves are surprised to muster. Once again, this heaving audio mass is structured beneath the awesome vocals of Gemma Fleet, whose narrative and lyrical savvy paints a hundred colorful pictures in words. Examining and exhuming fragmented memories of the '90s, the technological breakdown of our modern age and the simplicity of love in a time of madness, all with a trademark panache and a voice like no other.

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Cool Sounds

More To Enjoy

23,99 €*

Release: 2019 / ES – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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