Expertly curated and features compelling music from start to finish. It’s a great way to sample the best of Boston’s female driven indie scene.
— Florshime Zipper Boots

All these singers and bands excel in writing cool, gorgeous songs. They showcase vocal range and musical prowess. Impossible not to listen to it from start to finish again and again and again. Every song impresses with its songwriting, composition and ability to move, soothe or groove.
— Amy Steele for Entertainment Realm

Full Circle - Commonwealth Women Up front. An idea born out of our Indie Music Boston SoundCloud group. 10 tracks of solo artists and bands with a female voice up front. Quiet introspective folk, lush dream pop, fuzzed out guitars and synths. Amazing vocals start to finish. 10 artists you've probably never heard of, but should. And a seriously serendipitous thematic thread of time and space: Dear time, Can we just pretend, that you forgot to tell us there was a beginning and an end? Let us go off into the sunrise having left nothing behind, so that we may be held struck later, awed and surprised, as her sister sunset arrives. Forget that you gave us remember and expect. So that we make take every moment, without regret. To know not how to wait, or to pine for the end of a day, not realizing that in those moments we’re wishing our very lives away. To never feel the sadness of age, the imminence of parting, the paradox of knowing, what a wild and unexplainable game. Though of course there’s a beauty, crucial undeniably. To dream of what could be, endless possibility, the recollection of blissful memory. There is a truth in this contrast, knowing nothing can last, sometimes good, and sometimes bad. I suppose all we can do, is to learn to surrender, to that never to be found answer. Ironies never to be lost on me, but let’s laugh instead, while we also learn to take our selves less seriously. –k. augenstein Full - Circle. Commonwealth Women Up Front.

Tracks

1. Imani Sherley – I Will Go In Waves
2. Marriage Material – Fresh Air
3. Electric Wave Inspection Bureau (feat. Kate O’Connor) – Packets
4. Rachel Thomasin – Laurels
5. Aüva – Into Place
6. Satellite Sound – Sunday
7. Pleasure Garden – In Death
8. A/JE (Feat. Ada Obieshi) – Unknown
9. And Then There Was One – Dawn
10. Six Times Seven – One of These Days

Credits

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Produced by Brandon C. Walsh, Static Motor Recordings
Mastered by Mike Quinn at Moontower Studio, Q Division
Design by Kerri Augenstein
Photography by Robert Torres
Illustration – Emberiza bruniceps, By John Gould & Henry C. Richter [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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Imani Sherley — I Will Go In Waves
Words and music by Imani Shirley
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Marriage Material — Fresh Air
John Lieneck and Chelsey Reynolds (Famous Waitress, ASCAP)
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Electric Wave Inspection Bureau (feat. Kate O’Connor) — Packets
Words and music by Andy Cooke (BMI)
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Rachel Thomasin — Laurels
Words and music by Rachel Thomasin
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Aüva — Into Place
Words and music by Jake LeVine, Jack Markwordt, Miette Hope Goldman, Michael Piccoli
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Satellite Sound — Sunday
Words and music by Danielle Mishkin, Jamie Martini, Levi Ali, Mike Miller
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Pleasure Garden — In Death
Words and music by Anne Bennett and Ryan Lord

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A/JE (Feat. Ada Obieshi) — Unknown
Words and music by Amos Damroth and Ada Obieshi
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And Then There Was One — Dawn
Words and music by Stevie Caldwell (ASCAP)
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Six Times Seven — One of These Days
Words and music by Stevie Caldwell (ASCAP)
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