EP: Funds For Jimmy – tell someone you love them 
Single: EFE – Fine Line 
Single: Ella Aslin – Prophecy 
EP: Funds For Jimmy – tell someone you love them
The LA band’s first release in two years is a love letter to their community, reflecting the energy of their live shows and the emotional ups and downs of their music.
Single: EFE – Fine Line
Reviving the best of indie rock, “Fine Line” offers a dark and intimate atmosphere, cautious apologies, and tension through overdriven guitars.
Single: Ella Aslin – Prophecy
A wonderfully cathartic surprise. It’s a beautiful, elegant, mature sound that warms the heart and soothes the soul.
Single: Esquimaux – Bricks and Bones
The guitar melody is what pulls you in first, slow and sweet, the kind of
Single: Chaelle – Wired
song that can’t sit still, “Wired” slows down to admit something real, then picks up again before it has to sit with those feelings for too long.
Single: Dillon Jo – Vertigo
On Vertigo, Dillon Jo creates an atmosphere of dizzying stagnation with one needle-point view of clarity. Even though everything is spinning, one thing is clear enough and just as unmoving as you feel: you shouldn’t go through with it, with what can kill you. You should get through it, that thing that is killing you.
EP: elbowsway – common sense (EP)
Sonically and visually, elbowsway captures the bluntness of everyday survival against a backdrop of supernatural decay, looking at ‘the end’ as a clear-eyed, terrifying realization.
Single: blankette – clothes
It’s quite simple, really. It’s a classic case of a catch-22. You wear the clothes that present you in a certain way to others, but they don’t always get it right. So, you try to convince yourself that you don’t dress the way you do for others, so who is it all for? Well, blankette can tell you who it is not all for.
Album: Andrew Van Lennox – Collected Ghost Stories
This is not a story of a haunted house; it is instead about the haunted self. The ghosts that live on your tongue, behind your eyes, and wrapped around your sullen limbs. You are haunting yourself. This album’s musical landscape stalks closer and closer to you until it is close enough for you to realize it was never chasing you; it was nudging you toward this epiphany: you are haunting yourself.
Single: W. Y. Huang – Afraid To Go Outside
If you follow his lead and close your eyes and close the blinds while listening- the subtle electric guitar and piano come in and transport you to this lonely empty room
Single: Albert Hertz – DWY
“DWY” treats the end of the world like a love song,with loud drums, hopeful guitars, and a vocal delay that makes it feel like it’s echoing out from the middle of the collapse itself.
Album: Nathan Kendall – Flash Channel
A triumphant debut, this is one of the most richly diverse and entertaining albums I’ve heard this year.
Single: San Gabriel – All My Time
San Gabriel, a musical project of Texas’s James Bookert, delivers a song expressing a man’s adoration for someone he loves.
Single: sluggg – If I…
With a perfect, succinct title for what it wants to evoke, If I… by Sluggg is a drawling consideration of what you wish you had, starting with the obtainable and then abruptly entering the unattainable over a slow crawl of a bedroom pop production.
Single: Prettier Now – Beaming
The song immediately throws the listener into the deep end, the guitar and drums exploding out the gate.
Single: Fight Cloud – Guarantor
‘Guarantor’ by Fight Cloud unfolded in a way I didn’t expect – the calm opening does not prepare you for the heightened emotions that erupt as it progresses.
Single: Bobby Edge – Is That Weed Wrapped In A Wendy’s Napkin
Is That Weed Wrapped In A Wendy’s Napkin? has bright sounding instrumentals, beaming vocals, and lyrics that paint a picture of existential crisis and a yearning to escape
Single: Damn Shame – Making Habits
Making Habits does a fantastic job of shining the light of awareness on these almost self-destructive patterns (or habits) we can fall into as people craving change and progress, highlighting the lack of follow-through that would ultimately lead us to who or where we want to be
EP: Silverface Twin – Levitate
The Phoenix riot grrrl group explores the highs and lows of life – love, pain, and rage – on their exhilarating debut EP.
