Steadfast Records

Steadfast Records delivers a powerful statement of intent with And The Angels Wouldn't Help You, a definitive 20-track compilation showcasing the vibrant energy, raw emotion, and defiant spirit coursing through the label's current and forthcoming releases. This essential sampler serves as both an introduction and a testament, spotlighting established forces and thrilling new discoveries across shoegaze, emo, hardcore, and alternative landscapes.

This special Japanese import celebrates Cross My Heart's triumphant return, presenting the Baltimore quartet's essential 1999 self-titled EP and stunning Temporary Contemporary album from 2000 on a single glass-mastered CD. Limited to 500 copies worldwide with only 200 available in the United States. Cross My Heart perfected the loud-soft dynamic, moving from whispers to screams with breathless intensity—songs about hopelessness and regret, sorrow and resolve, delivered with a sultriness and sophistication that set them apart.

From San José, Costa Rica, Adiós Cometa returns with Un Destello de Luz, their most ambitious and emotionally charged album to date. This second full-length finds the five-piece pushing deeper into the intersection of shoegaze's sonic textures and emo's raw vulnerability.

Content Providers is not just an album, it's a howl from the neon gulag of 2025, where rock bands aren't bands anymore, but social media vending machines doling out dopamine and desperation in equal measure. Nashville's Palm Ghosts, ever the beautiful bastards of post-punk gloom and cinematic pop, have cracked the mirror and are pointing to the ugly thing squirming behind it.

Tokyo Japan's prolific alternative punk band FVRMN return with their fifth full-length studio album, SUICIDES. SUICIDES is a sprawling, adventurous album spearheaded and shadowed by lead songwriter J HOLMES' recent onset of seizures, a process that caused him to reflect on the nature of our own metaphysical mentality, the inner turbulence that we endure, and the time it takes to pick up the pieces of those who have left us behind.