New Comp Range Lights: A Relief Map Family & Friends Compilation Has Unreleased Wild Pink, Future Teens, & More
Relief Map Records is a new independent label based in Western Massachusetts “specializing in limited edition pressings for artists of all kinds to emphasize the importance of non-passive listening.” They’re debuting today with a compilation called Range Lights: A Relief Map Family & Friends Compilation. All proceeds from the comp benefit Feeding America.
Range Lights features unreleased material from a smattering of indie and DIY artists including Future Teens, Ezra Cohen, Young Scum, Golf Lexapro, and many more. Of particular interest to me, though, is a previously unreleased Wild Pink song from 2015 called “Relationship” that Relief Map founder Jim Hewitt rightly compares to the 1975. Powered gleaming, punchy guitar chords and laced with saxophone, it finds John Ross at his most quotable, from “I’m pulling tinsel from the asshole of my cat” to “It’s scary what feels normal in no time” to “Can you take the train to Long Island? You can tell me your stories about Brand New.”
Stream and purchase the comp below.