Artist: Eliot Rose

San Francisco-by-way-of-Austin musician Mark David Ashworth will release his second album, Bright is the Ring of Words , February 23rd on Autobus Records . According to the label: Coming together over the span of a year and a half, the album was recorded in Ashworth's tiny room in San Francisco's Mission District and in a middle school orchestra room north of the Golden Gate, where his multi-instrumentalist collaborator, Tristan Arnold, teaches. "Clean Slate" showcases Ashworth's engaging baritone and an ambitious orchestral palette. [...]

• Mark David Ashworth - Clean Slate

Eliot Rose makes charming, electronically backed, bedroom pop with a D.I.Y attitude and a slightly lofi sound. If you can't imagine these songs scribbled on the track list of an adorable mix cd or soundtracking the pivotal moments in another quirky indie comedy then shame on you. Supported by his knowledge of the thumb piano and his ventures in Casio driven pop music, Eliot Rose delivers songs that sound like a kid in his bedroom imagining wild adventures with all of his action figures, and scribbling down the melodies to go along. In his words: [...]

• Eliot Rose - Brightness and the Blood
• Eliot Rose - The Infinite Gloom