Single: That Old Quiet Lighthouse – Special Boy 
Album: Walden – Funeral For A Band 
Single: Dream Jeans – My Love, Half Real 
Single: That Old Quiet Lighthouse – Special Boy
The Manchester-based songwriter drops an introspective single with indie-emo-folk flair, which talks to the past and reflects on a mental health journey.
Album: Walden – Funeral For A Band
Faced with their possible demise – this Denver-based atmospheric rock band may well have made the music of their lives.
Single: Dream Jeans – My Love, Half Real
Some songs tell you a story. This one just lets you sit inside a feeling, written by someone who says half these words are true and the other half are just words.
Album: Mega Fäuna – softmore
On their first full-length album, the Sydney band explore femininity, balancing transcendence and immanence in both the lyrics and music.
Single: Laughing About Nothing – Casey Jones
Portland punk/power-pop band Laughing About Nothing turn a pet-sitting gig into a loud, chaotic, and affectionate ode to a very serious cat.
EP: dreaming at midnight – S/T
On their eponymous EP, the Polish band leaves you awash with desire, urgency, and molten longing.
Album: Rolling Boxcar International – Rolling Boxcar International
This is a terrain with gapings of stomach-dropping reminders. This is a landscape with the remains of a waiting room. This is a call to cope with the splayed guts of an extracted grief. This is a flash with dapples of fast-acting yet fleeting hope. This eponymous record by Rolling Boxcar International is a wound rope revealing itself slowly to show that what you thought was a noose is actually a lasso.
Single: Mannequin Flowers – White Silver
Mannequin Flowers’ new single embodies the visceral feeling of something holding you in, coating you and seeping through your cells.
Album: Dad Hats – wash. rinse. repeat.
The Nashville emo group’s third album shows even more polish, even as they grapple with growth, everyday minutia, and making the same mistakes.
Single: Sonny Casey – Silence
Silence by Sonny Casey is a slowburn, intricate yet sparse folksy retelling of a childhood that left more bullet holes in its wake than it ever bore a sense of being cared for in earnest.
Single: Céleri – Silence in the Sidewalk
This lifts you up and tickles your senses into submission. It’s fun, it’s catchy, and it’s so effervescent that it feels alive.
Interview: A deep dive into Eliza Edens’ new album “Death Drive”
Eliza opens up about the creation of Death Drive, balancing fun, grief, and hope, and playing new songs live after a touring hiatus.
Single: Big Winner – Blissin’ Out
In his return to music after a brief hiatus, Chuck Gibson ties his love for “eccentric weird-kid alt-pop” into his everyday life in order to better flow his bliss.
Single: IVES – Eyes Wide Shut
“Eyes Wide Shut” lives in that paradise where there’s no right or wrong. It’s soft and hazy, just like the moment right before you fall asleep.
Single: GREEN EERIE – Magnolias
There’s a kind of joy running through “Magnolias,” the specific kind of joy you feel when you’re finally far away from something that used to hold you down.
Single: The BV’s – safe and sound
“Safe And Sound” sounds like it was recorded in an empty parking garage at 3am, dreamy, echoing, and strangely beautiful.
Single(s): Blind Adam and the Federal League – The Front / Middle of the Night
Chicago’s Blind Adam and the Federal League, both musicians and activists, release two songs that call listeners to the front lines of their communities.
Single: Calypso’s Curse – Back of the Line
Calypso’s Curse puts out a message of dignity and self-love with beauty and elegance, while also highlighting an incredible array of talented musical performances in their first single in two years.
Single: Little Oso – Simulation Games
the chimes and blips of the computer-world and the fuzzy guitars make the song sound like a simulation itself.
