Single: SP’s – Spirit World 
Single: Genevieve & Milo – What a Wonderful Thing 
Album: hey i’m outside – Loud Ass Barking Dogs 
Single: SP’s – Spirit World
“Spirit World” sounds like it’s beaming in from another dimension, and once those drums kick in, there’s no mistaking SP’s for anyone else.
Single: Genevieve & Milo – What a Wonderful Thing
Atmospheric folk with a near-operatic power vocal.
Album: hey i’m outside – Loud Ass Barking Dogs
Expanding on their powerful indie sound with Southern twang and skewed vocals, the Boston-area trio examines the full spectrum of emotion on their second album.
Album: Cold Wrecks – You Can’t Plan For This
Cold Wrecks has a special way of delivering a heavy heart; their lyrics feel inviting to an audience that covets big emotions.
Single: Greenbit – Your Time
Nonchalance is the key here. The lack of heavy percussion allows this tune to remain unbothered. You go and take your time, he says after he breaks up with his girlfriend. He couldn’t care either way. And it’s disguised so well under layers of languor that even you are not sure if he is actually this casual or if this is a façade. And that makes you put the song on repeat. Just to find out.
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.
