Hear New Sub Pop Singles Club Vol. 8 Tracks From Mary Jane Dunphe and Vanishing Twin

Today, Wednesday, January twenty fourth, marks the discharge of name new Sub Pop Singles Club Vol. 8 contributions from Mary Jane Dunphe and Vanishing Twin – each out there now on all DSPs and as limited-edition vinyl 7” singles.

Mary Jane Dunphe is a solo artist and poet based mostly in New York City. She launched a number of singles throughout 2023, culminating within the fall launch of her debut album, Stage of Love, on Pop Wig (The title observe was included in Pitchfork’s 100 Best Songs of 2023 listing). Mary Jane is initially from Washington State and sang for the good Olympia punk band Vexx from 2010 to 2016. She’s been concerned in a number of different musical tasks, together with CCFX, CC Dust, and The County Liners.

Dunphe says, “Both of those songs had been written and recorded by me in my bed room (apart from a day after I needed to report in my pal Luke’s room (Free Advice) to get out of my very own head.) They’re made with what I had mendacity round; a bass, some chimes, a single maraca, some breaks I had been messing with, and a mushy synth. ‘Fix Me’ is an inner stutter of feeling that there’s something flawed inside, and all you are able to do is really feel it out with a music. ‘Seasons’ goes outdoors and finds that within the face of societal and environmental collapse, the dissolving of seasons and our connection to the earth, that love for love’s sake of all the pieces is a tether holding me on the bottom.”

Vanishing Twin was initially shaped by the singer and multi-instrumentalist Cathy Lucas in 2015 and is now the tightly honed, London-based collective of Lucas, the drummer Valentina Magaletti, and the bassist Susumu Mukai. Harnessing the various backgrounds and touchstones of its members—Lucas’ left-field songcraft, Magaletti’s singular approaches to experimental percussion, and Mukai’s lengthy historical past within the manufacturing of digital music—over almost a dozen releases since 2016, the band has refined a hypnotic sound on the juncture of minimalism, kosmische, post-punk, and dream-laden, psychedelic pop. The lyrics for the music “Life Drummer” are tailored from a chapter from The Listening Book by W.A. Mathieu, additionally referred to as “Life Drummer.”

You can nonetheless subscribe to the Sub Pop Singles Club Vol. 8 now to get twelve super-limited 7” vinyl records that includes unique music by right this moment’s most interesting musicians! It’s restricted to a mere 835 subscriptions as a result of it’s quantity 8, and 2023 marked Sub Pop’s thirty fifth birthday! You’ll get the aforementioned 7”s from Mary Jane Dunphe and Vanishing Twin, together with singles from SUNN O))), Telehealth, Thrash Palace (feat. EMA, Vice Cooler, Sarah Register), Gaye Su Akyol, Jessica Winter & Jonathan Snipes, Margaritas Podridas, Brontez Purnell, and Suki Waterhouse (which incorporates her collaboration with Belle & Sebastian). The remaining two singles for Volume 8 will probably be from the Parisian band En Attendant Ana (who launched among the finest albums of 2023, in accordance with TIME Magazine), and haha similar (the brand new collaboration between Greta Kline of Frankie Cosmos and Cody Fitzgerald of Stolen Jars), each of that are due in February. And, to prime all of it off, you’ll get a lavish storage field, with artwork by @oldsweaty, to maintain the records collectively.

Computer customers: concern not! You may even get digital downloads of the tracks by your Sub Pop Mega Mart account. Hear music from the collection through the Singles Club playlist, and subscribe right here.

Lastly, followers of the band Telehealth can watch their new video for “Mindtrap,” the official video from their installment of Sub Pop Singles Club, Vol. 8, tomorrow, Thursday, January twenty fifth, on YouTube.