Whirl-Wheels

Shelflife Records gathers eight indie pop acts—The Cat’s Miaow, Eggplant, Club 8, and Clair among them—for this compilation of lo-fi bedroom pop and twee sensibilities. The collection captures the label’s knack for unearthing bedroom producers and lo-fi pop craftspeople working at the margins of indie music. Whirl-Wheels feels like a snapshot of early-2000s DIY pop, all fragile vocals and homemade arrangements colliding in one deliberately modest package.