Some of my favorite releases of the past few years have resurfaced momentarily thanks to the enchanted storage unit of fellow traveler @pleasantlyslc of Salt Lake City.
Very limited copies of everything.
Locals: Order for pickup @deepthoughtsrecordshop or DM.
Now shipping from the site & in stock @deepthoughtsrecordshop
𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟮
Indie Stock
South of North
Netherlands/France, 2026
LP
This one’s flown a bit under the radar so far, but I can’t get enough of it: an addictive indie pop debut from the not exactly memorably named collective From 2. I’ve puzzled over the title 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘬, but the image that endures is a soup stock made from simmering decades of leftover indie trends and capturing their essences. It occasionally makes me think of that excellent Felicity J. Lord debut from last year—I think it’s the combination of catchiness, oddity, and attention deficit disorder. But From 2 is more committed to the bit, building genuinely enduring tunes out of the ghosts of indie past and a terminally online stream of consciousness.
𝐴𝑅𝑇𝑆 𝑁𝐼𝐺𝐻𝑇 𝑂𝑈𝑇 Join us this Friday May 8 at @ironhorsenoho for @owsleysowls celebrating the famous Cornell 77 show! Owsley’s Owls perform two sets of face-melting Grateful Dead music and hardcore improvisational jollies. With reverence for the past and a foot in the eternal now, they mine the songbook 1965-95 and beyond for sacred ore. The Owls are based at various points across the state of Massachusetts and have convened to perform nearly 500 shows. Always a hoot!
My April subscription pick turned up fashionably late today—total stunner now on the site & coming soon to @deepthoughtsrecordshop
𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻
Basin
The Hotel
UK, 2026
LP
Digitally self-released in 2022, and now appearing on vinyl for the first time courtesy of The Hotel in an edition designed by Thomas Bush, Basin is a quiet masterpiece of late-night London sophisti-pop. Alternately recalling Scott Walker, The Blue Nile, and the beguiling, rain-damp adult contemporary moments on those early Jolly Discs records by Special Occasion and Never, Rocheman’s work doesn’t shy away from bold gestures or grand feelings. Indeed, it’s a tension between melodrama and quiet honesty that seems to animate the work. His chamber pop arrangements wear their taste and sophistication on their well-turned sleeves, but there’s inevitably a moment when the fabriqué digital textures of the instruments glitch through, a flickering glimpse of the 21st-century surreality underwriting the confessional sincerity of these pensive tunes.
As the artist himself puts it: this album spanned a few years, bookended by my Dad’s passing and the birth of my child. a lot of it was made in our damp basement. the album went through a lot of concentrated periods of understanding what my Dad had left behind, how deep family karma goes, how it still shows up. through intimate relationships, the outside world, everything the mind tries to say. this project has often been a sense maker of a lot of confusing stuff. for some reason early on it became compelling to stick as much as possible to cheap MIDI sounds, to see if something arose from writing quite grandiose, occasionally melodramatic things, funnelled through faux instruments doing bad impressions of real ones. for some reason it matched the dichotomies that were coming up a lot in grieving my dad ~ empathy/lack of resolution, real memories/unreal selfprotecting stories, my own patterns of BS/the quieter real self or soul. all still going on in some way. but making this was a very fulfilling way to transmute some of it and pass it on with love.
Happy birthday to the English folk rock masterpiece “I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight,” the first album by Richard & Linda Thompson from 1974 at the start of their marriage. Marred by production issues due to the oil crisis (🤔🤔🤔) the album didn’t reach the US until 1983, at which time it received its flowers, but IWTSTBLT remains an underappreciated work to this day.
Still unpacking this lovely new album from Silvia Tarozzi a couple weeks after its release. Now shipping from the site & available @deepthoughtsrecordshop
𝗦𝗶𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗧𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘇𝘇𝗶
Lucciole
Unseen Worlds
Italy/USA, 2026
2LP
Not too long after I stumbled upon her undersung 2020 masterpiece “Mi specchio e rifletto,” Silvia Tarozzi is back with a stunning, dreamlike, worldly follow-up. From the varied sophistication of her arrangements, to the bell-like clarity of both her melodies and her voice, this is music of remarkable warmth and sophistication—textured, layered, joyful, and searching, as capacious and sun-kissed as life itself.
