Goodbye Lavender

There is a small but telling dissonance in the metadata surrounding *Goodbye Lavender*, the forthcoming EP from Opal Mag, due April 29, 2026: the record's title gestures at farewell, while its genre tags read like an inventory of forms that refuse to stay finished. Indie-pop, garage-rock, shoegaze, lo-fi, post-punk, dream-pop, garage-pop — the list is less a description than a set of possibilities, and the overlap between those categories is precisely where the more interesting music in any of them tends to live. Read more…