To borrow from our very own homepage,

When writing about a song or album, the convention is to use the present tense. A piece of music, although representative of and influenced by the era in which it was created, is ultimately always experienced in ~the present~. We built this website while pondering ways that we could, at every turn, focus on discovery by bringing music we released years ago relevantly back into the present, challenging how we collectively talk and think about “new” music. Discovering new music is exciting, but so is discovering music that’s simply

new
to
you.

As an independent record label, our main focus is curation. What we choose to release is intentional. Over time though, it can get pretty hard to sift through the catalog of a single label, never mind hundreds or thousands of them. It gets noisy pretty fast out there!

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It's a constant challenge to promote music in our current music ecosystem. Digital service providers focus on what they can push right! now!, press cycles and album releases revolve around language like "campaign" and "rollout" and "content" and "engagement". Old Music Friday just doesn't really hit. Feeding the machine can be maddening and the algorithm generally only has an appetite for anything that's +/- a month or so old, at most. Music doesn't stop mattering just because time marches (scrolls?) on forever, creating an endless stream of New Content™ though. We all know this, and yet, this new music consumption landscape persists.

n o e l w d

Occasionally, we like to pause and consider ways we can contextualize the music we've released over the years, resurfacing hidden gems, putting together samplers, making thoughtful recommendations, and now, as we celebrate our 19th birthday this week: pairing sonically similar releases from our catalog in a time-agnostic way. Whether you're here for the old stuff and looking for something new, or here for the new stuff and looking for something *ahem*,

new to you,

we hope you find something to enjoy all the same. Click on any album title below to load a page with links to hear it on each of the major streaming services so you can listen where you prefer. Enjoy!

TSR271: Blue Smiley - return
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TSR152: CLIQUE - Burden Piece

TSR259: Subsonic Eye - All Around You
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TSR133: Infinity Girl - Harm

TSR207: No Vacation - Phasing
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TSR179: Gingerlys - S/T

TSR253: Del Paxton - Auto Locator
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TSR105: Braid - No Coast

TSR199: Bellows - The Rose Gardener
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TSR236: Cool Original - outtakes from "bad summer"

TSR260: Knifeplay - Animal Drowning
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TSR172: Us and Us Only - Full Flower

TSR101: Frameworks - Loom
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TSR078: Caravels - Lacuna

TSR228: Record Setter - I Owe You Nothing
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TSR051: Pianos Become the Teeth - The Lack Long After

TSR223: Gulfer - S/T
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TSR038: Into It. Over It. - Twelve Towns

TSR256: Sweet Pill - Where the Heart Is
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TSR094: You Blew It - Keep Doing What You're Doing

TSR226: Weatherday - Come In
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TSR023: Grown Ups - More Songs

TSR224: Lunarette - Clair de Lunarette
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TSR103: Wild Ones - Keep it Safe

TSR237: supernowhere - Skinless Takes a Flight
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TSR108: Field Mouse - Hold Still Life

TSR209: LITE - Installation
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TSR024: Talons - Hollow Realm

TSR089: Crash of Rhinos - Knots
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TSR014: My Heart to Joy - Seasons In Verse

TSR175: Really From - Verse
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TSR171: Colossal - S/T

TSR265: Bruiser and Bicycle - Holy Red Wagon
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TSR005: Stand Up Get Down - We Have Something to Celebrate

TSR160: DANGERS - The Bend in the Break
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TSR109: My Fictions - Stranger Songs

TSR252: Sobs - Air Guitar
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TSRC001: Jay Som - Turn Into

TSR184: Elephant Gym - Angle
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TSR016: Rooftops - A Forest of Polarity

TSR267: Ratboys - The Window
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TSR202: Queen of Jeans - If you're not afraid, I'm not afraid

TSR084: toe - the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety
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TSR139: Pretend - Tapestry'd Life

TSR208: Mid-Air Thief - Crumbling
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TSRC026: Flung - Shaky But My Hair Is Grown

Thanks for checking these out! If you want to see them all together in one place, we did that for you too→