Curbside Lambsear is Annabelle Mödlinger and Magdalena McLean. The collaboration explores rough textures and soft intentions, weaving together elements of pop, folk, and improvisation with influences of drone, dub, and post-punk. The project began as a way for Magdalena and Annabelle to experiment with writing music together, using early sessions to learn new instruments, the process of recording and writing on DAWs. Their musical output is the result of time spent together in the studio fusing disparate influences into collage; phone notes, little poems written on public transport, field recordings, sample loops, rehearsal voice memos and string melodies merge, realign, and sometimes coalesce into songs.

https://www.instagram.com/curbside.lambsear

Special Guest plainhead

plainhead is a recording project built around guitar and fragile sample loops. It moves between the lines of a solo project and a collective band project – unbound by expectations while still breathing like a band, both on recording and live. Surrounded by the DIY-scene around their own self-founded recording label *new basement,* plainhead tries to introduce an ethos uncommon to the local music landscape in their hometown Munich (DE) and interacts between the boundaries of experimental rock and pop. Started off as a distortion-heavy shoegaze project playing earnest and estranged 90s-like songs, they have shifted into a more quiet and acoustic outfit centered around the winds of the clarinet and melodica. Especially formative records were the albums of early 00s Yo La Tengo and The Notwist.

https://plainhead.bandcamp.com

Photo: Yolanda Mitchell