EP: The Mooches – Dance With Me Now 
Single: The BV’s – melancholy 
Single: Peli Gene – Fall 
EP: The Mooches – Dance With Me Now
The Mooches’ new EP urges you to shake and shimmy through the troubles of the world, with four new ska-tinged tracks that make the album’s title more of a command.
Single: The BV’s – melancholy
‘Melancholy’ delivers the listener to a world of wan-faced, sun-shy boys in national health spectacles singing sad songs to even sadder souls sat in their bed sits.
Single: Peli Gene – Fall
Guitar melodies jingle and sparkle like confetti, creating an almost psychedelic vibe that coats your brain with heavy syrup.
Single: ØZWALD x Lucille Two – Comparison Ford
“Comparison Ford” is pure ear candy, sweet, psychedelic, and sad, the kind of song that puts you in your feelings.
Album: Shye – The Doves Came Home
Longing can breed hope. But it can also drive you to the brink of giving up entirely. Somewhere in between the two lies the bittersweetness of waiting. And waiting can loosen the cruelty of time. Or so Shye implies.
Single: Sidewave – The Surface
One of the two singles released in anticipation of Sidewave’s upcoming album, Dispel, The Surface promises a fire and portends a fall. Through its steeps down and steps up, though, there is an undiluted wish whose realization is a series of lacerating guitar solos that climb higher and higher and lavishing coordination between the riffs and the percussion that grounds the process. And the wish is to do something that is purported to be undoable. Simple as that. How hard can that be?
Single: The Republic of Wolves – In Margins
“In Margins” sounds like warmth with a shadow behind it, a loose, bouncy groove carrying vocals dreamy enough to make the sharp lyrics sneak up on you.
Album: tsubai – ilulissat
There is little to say about what the album tells you, but a lot to say about the way it makes you feel.
Single: MEANT MORE – This Town
“This Town” kicks off simple and vibrant, then explodes into loud, distorted chaos, a high energy pop-punk anthem built for driving away and never looking back.
Single: ROWA – Punk Tsugi
Inspired by the striking fashions of Ashton Michael, ROWA’s punk and electrothrash-tinged new single pits different forms of passion against each other.
Single: Asha Wells – Jacob Sheep
“Jacob Sheep” feels like a half remembered dream, music box melodies, trance like vocals, and a jazz tinged groove that feels classic and haunting all at once.
Single: Stefan J. Selbert – Cover Up
“Cover Up” shifts shape every time you think you’ve got it figured out, starting sparse and dreamlike before bursting out with full force.
Album: Nashville Exile – Hand Drawn
Littered with highlights and teeming with talent, and with countless classic rock-and-roll references, this album and band know no bounds.
Single: Late Cambrian – Kin Precipice
“Kin Precipice” takes you to the edge of something great, then gleefully gives you a shove.
Single: Scootin’ Boogie – JW Francis
The track captures the dichotomy of fear and excitement that exists at the beginning of life-changing trips.
Single: Task Manager – DUMMY
DUMMY is regret and internal retribution on a loop. It’s utterly relatable and beautifully realised.
Single: Reserver – Heart Is A Bomb
In “Heart Is a Bomb,” the grief is palpable, but from the wreckage, an undeniable aesthetic and an unshakable melody emerge.
Single: Tower Defense – Stop, I Think I’ve Heard This One Before
With a video full of public access quirkiness and a track of post-punk perfection, Tower Defense sings a warning about the dangers of too much TV.
Single: Horsetail – Big Desert
“Big Desert” wears its heartbreak like a cowboy hat, calm and composed on the surface, aching underneath, with a hook built to live in your head for days.
Single: Dad Hats – hope ur down
“Hope ur down” is self deprecating pop-punk with a groove so sharp it distracts you from how much it stings.
