Hailing from Stockton (not the neighbouring Teesside town), California, Craft Spells are the brainchild of Justin Vallesteros, with Frankie Soto, Jack Smith and Anna Luxx Ryon completing the line up.
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Craft Spells return with their follow up to Certified Track "Breaking The Angle Against The Tide" and next track from Nausea, "Komorebi".

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With previous track "Breaking The Angle Against The Tide" slipping into our Certified New section with minimal ease, it was always going to be a hard battle to keep up the standard on next track "Komorebi", but low-and-behold Craft Spells managed it with ease.
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Craft Spells have long had a place in our hearts ever since we were introduced to "After The Moment" around the turn of the year.
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So after bring you Craft Spells' recent tracks "Party Talk" & the rather brilliant "After The Moment", today we have another new track, "You Should Close The Door"
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Justin Vallesteros' Craft Spells finally return with, "Breaking The Angle Against The Tide", their first track since 2012.

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The band are set to release Nausea their sophomore/second LP on June 10th and "Breaking The Angle Against The Tide" is the first glimpse of what's to come from Craft Spells.
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As a body of work, Craft Spells' debut LP 'Idle Labour' was simply beautiful. Today sees the band announce news of a new follow up EP - 'Gallery' - and a new track in "Still Left With Me".
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Craft Spells now have a video for their scarily catchy track "After The Moment".
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Justin Vallesteros' Craft Spells release their latest EP 'Gallery' next week, and you can now stream the whole thing below.
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We take a look at some of our most highly-anticipated LP releases this spring.



Everyone's always banging on about how disposable music is these days and how little emphasis is placed on full-length releases. Well we're about to place some emphasis on some of the upcoming LPs set for release this spring - give or take. So how about everyone gives it a rest and rather than going searching for new music, we'll bring a large chunk to you instead.
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If we're judging 2014 in peaks and troughs, March falls under neither. 

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It's been a good solid month for new arrivals, album releases, killer tracks and we even heard a decent cover version, thanks to Tame Impala. Most notably though, we've had some of our most anticipated returns come true this month, so let's not waste any further time and get down to the nitty gritty...
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It's our first time posting about Portland trio Blouse, and with the track / video we bring you today your going to be left feigning for more.
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Lets face it, D.I.Y videos shit on overly thought out, high budget ones any day of the week. This video for Pandit's "Kathryn, My Love" is yet further proof of that.
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Holy s**t! No Fear of Pop just dropped an absolute diamond! New band Happy Hands Club, have It. It being "Lost At Sea" and It being possibly one of the best mixes of styles I've heard this year.
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Californian group Surf Club appear to have set out their intentions clearly, making lively indie-pop no doubt inspired by their Californian surroundings. Simples.
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A new name which sprung onto our radar yesterday was Surf Club, which includes Frankie Soto, who was once part of an early Craft Spells line up. That reason alone should be enough for you to hit the 'continue reading' link.
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This year we've cut down our "best of" lists and got straight to the point, we'll have two lists and an extra something(s) special up our sleeve.

Lists can get increasingly tedious this time of the year and every Tom, Dick and Harry are compiling their best albums, videos, tracks, artists, newcomers, the holy "Ones To Watch", what are we watching for exactly?

This first list is for NEWCOMERS, the criteria isn't "Oh we came across this band in 2011, they're good". It needs to be relevant so we made some pointers on how we judged below:
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Following on from their debut Maritime EP, Beach Vacation have dropped new track, "I Saw You". The band are from Oak Harbour, Washington and there's no prizes for guessing who their influences are, (Wild Nothing, Beach Fossils, Craft Spells) "I Saw You" sounds like a combination of all three.
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Hibou aka Peter Michel, former Craft Spells drummer, is back following his 2013 test of the water and has new of a self-titled debut set for release through Barsuk, oh and he's dropped lead single "Dissolve".
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A decent day for new bands, this time we have San Diego's Writer and their latest track, "Family Dinner".
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So here we are, almost at summers pinnacle as we prepare to enter August. It's more than appropriate then that we present our Summer mixtape today. A compilation that you can put on, kick back and let guide you through the long evenings.
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