Close To Home Records release charity compilation in aid of MIND

Close To Home Records have teamed up with Head Above The Waves - a Cardiff-based organisation that aims to increase the dialogue around depression and self-harm - to produce a mammoth, 45-track compilation of some of the UK and US’ greatest indie, punk and shoegaze, all in aid of MIND: The Mental Health Charity.

Titled ‘Some Kind Of Fix’, it features the more established likes of Moose Blood, Title Fight, Basement and more alongside newbies like the Gnarwolves-associated Shit Present and that wicked debut track from Rain that we premiered a few weeks back. Speaking on the compilation, Close To Home Records head Joe Hart had the following to say: “The aim of the compilation is to bring together a selection of bands to show support and raise awareness of mental health issues that affect a lot of people every day. Somehow in 2015, we’re still not quite at a point in society where someone can feel comfortable with talking about the fact they might be suffering from a mental illness. We’re not yet at a point where we naturally offer mental health sufferers the support they need. This support should be offered without a thought, but unfortunately, way too often, I open a news tab on the internet or a page in a newspaper and I see someone who is given a platform to spread the complete wrong message when it comes to mental health.”

The compilation’s full tracklisting can be found below - pick it up from the Heads Above The Waves website.

1. Title Fight - Safe In Your Skin
2. Dearist - Fix
3. Superheaven - Gushin’ Blood
4. Basement - Breathe
5. Rain - Slur
6. Forrest - Luna
7. Moose Blood – Anyway
8. Great Sale Day - Best Friends
9. Losing Sleep - Never Told You
10. Pretend Happy – Dirt
11. Epona – Closure
12. The Bank Trail – Wildcard
13. Walleater - Pig Pen
14. Fade - Reverie Summer
15. Hindsights - Out Of My Skull
16. Luke Godwin - Grinding Gears (Acoustic)
17. Greylines - Quiet Town
18. Sneeze – Wilt
19. The New Tusk – Uncomfort
20. Junior - A House That’s Not Quite Home
21. Huskies - North Coast
22. Faux – Shoes
23. Hanna Cash - Worst Birthday
24. Bodyheat – Hold
25. Montana - Move On
26. Inside Jokes - Can You Make Me Happy?
27. Frankly – Surely
28. Nervus – Bones
29. Tilde – Gaze
30. Wallflower – Skin
31. Svalbard - The Vanishing Point
32. Dissolve - Clarky Cat
33. Happy Accidents – Autopilot
34. The Winter Passing - Fruits of Gloom
35. Bohica - Keep Me Awake
36. Water Canvas – Birthdays
37. Honey Joy - Saluting Magpies
38. Don’t Worry – Travelsick
39. Claw The Thin Ice - In The Dark
40. Empty Blue - Pull Me Under
41. Shit Present – Evaporate
42. Personal Best - Human Nature
43. Land Speed - Sick To Death
44. Healing Powers - Friendship Bracelet
45. Lake Michigan - Under The Spell (Desire Cover)