Song Recommendation: “Tender and Laughing” by miscellaneous owl (2025)

Sometimes you just need a good ol’ fashioned slice of bedroom indie pop–admittedly I probably need it more than most, coming of music-age in the era when this kind of stuff was brand new and fresh and so, yeah, there’s maybe a bit of me trying to reclaim some lost youth. But, no matter, miscellaneous owl puts forward a tremendous collection of small-scale, heartfelt, synth-tinged mini-epics with the cloud chamber, the quick 26 minute album from which this track hails. The whole thing zips by like a sunbeam on a warm spring day but opener “Tender and Laughing” might still be the standout.