Massive Context

LA’s Hands are out to infect your brain with more glossy sine waves than it can handle. Dopamine reserves engage!

<i>Massive Context</i>

You Guys Are Gonna Wake Up My Mom

Brooklyn’s Field Mouse have a secret recipe: one part feet staring, one part promiscuity, one part synth. It’s a winning combination.

<i>You Guys Are Gonna Wake Up My Mom</i>

Treehouse

What do Salman Rushdie, nova lox, and a dog named Gracie have in common? Andrew Balasia has the secret — Treehouse is the key to it all.

<i>Treehouse</i>

High Highs

Australia’s best new export isn’t from Outback or Foster’s — it’s the euphoric indie pop of High Highs‘ debut EP

<i>High Highs</i>

Girls Like Me

San Diego’s most lovable avant-pop duo TV Girl knows a thing or two about girls and irony.

<i>Girls Like Me</i>

Latest Releases

Hands – Massive Context EP

Hands – Massive Context EP

We are thrilled to give you Hands’ Massive Context EP. This is ...
Field Mouse – You Guys… 7″

Field Mouse – You Guys… 7″

Small Plates is proud to announce SPR008, a 7” dish from Brooklyn ...
Gracie – <i>Treehouse</i> EP

Gracie – Treehouse EP

Small Plates grows up with its first 12″ from Philadelphia, PA’s Gracie. ...
High Highs – High Highs EP

High Highs – High Highs EP

Ultra-limited vinyl release: First 100 copies come on marbled charcoal-gray wax. Sold ...

Praise for Our Artists

If you’re into Arthur/Lola-era Kinks with a charmingly lo-fi psych-pop infusion, then this is carved out especially for you.

– Prefix on Campfires - http://www.prefixmag.com/media/campfires/chasing-planets-mp3/49121/

Tooth-ache sweet, common cold catchy, parallel universe pop.

– Altered Zones on Guards - http://alteredzones.com/posts/60/guards-i-see-it-coming/

One of the best voices around in 2010…

– NME on Idiot Glee - http://tinyurl.com/NMEonIdiotGlee

This is highly accomplished stuff.

– The Guardian on Guards - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/09/new-band-guards

Present-day ravers will age into the future’s amnesiacs and this will soundtrack their descent.

– Altered Zones on Supreme Cuts - http://alteredzones.com/posts/1001/supreme-cuts/

“It’s impossible to turn a blind eye… [High Highs] are destined for bigger things.”

– DIY on High Highs - http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/first-on/high-highs

“Mellow gold… really quite marvelous.”

– The Guardian on TV Girl - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/sep/26/new-band-tv-girl

“chills-inducing, haunting… a bedroom-ready burner.”

– Prefix on Gracie - http://www.prefixmag.com/media/gracie/southern-place-video-prefix-premiere/61125/

“They shimmer like Velocity Girl used to do back in the early ’90s”

– Stereogum on Field Mouse - http://stereogum.com/934362/field-mouse-glass-video-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/

“There are often intangibles with bands, when you like them. You just know it. Hands does that to us and will likely do that for you too.”

– Daytrotter on Hands - http://www.daytrotter.com/#!/concert/hands/20054956-111876

“These guys weave a sound that’s equally blissful and exciting.”

– Nylon on Hands - http://www.nylonmag.com/?section=article&parid=7851