NRS Presents: These Towns, Heal, Running Standard

These Towns is a London free folk, improv, noise, electronics trio feat. members of UKAEA, Sly and The Family Drone, Abstract Concrete. Miserable/joyful music made by three people from these fucking towns, all of whom made a run for it, swapping inexorable economic decline and emptying town centres for the accelerating claustrophobic grind of the big city.

https://thesetowns.bandcamp.com/…/youll-get-what-youre…

Heal is a band formed in Barcelona by members of Wind Atlas, North State, Wann and Glitterhouse. Forlorn indie with hints of slowcore and folk; haunting vocals draped over blurred lo-fi guitars, languid bass, hypnotic drums and dusty ambience.

https://healmetal.bandcamp.com/track/1995

Running Standard make widescreen folk-tinged post-indie with nods to shoegaze and weirdo American indie. Plaintive and raw, there’s always a sparkle beneath the dust. Arrangements blossom and swell then explode into sudden cacophonies and collapse again into surreal or languorous vignettes.

https://runningstandard.bandcamp.com/album/late-night-theatrics

Source: New River Studios website