Single: Modern Leisure – you can count on me 
Album: Kallsup – Alldeles För Nära 
EP: Costumes – Disintegrate 
Single: Modern Leisure – you can count on me
Modern Leisure has garnered the ability to hold the feeling of pure joy in his hands, bottle it, and infuse it into this track to the point of overflow.
Album: Kallsup – Alldeles För Nära
You have to listen to all of the album to find out: No one can promise to make it better. No one can promise to make it feel real. No one can make you remember who you are.
EP: Costumes – Disintegrate
Costumes’ pure post-hardcore makes you expect the unexpected, as their sound blows the shingles off every old building in the middle of Massachusetts.
Single: Franny Menace – Nancy
On the heels of election season, the Brooklyn indie band launches a pop-punk attack on politicians who care less about helping people than they do about their own bank accounts.
Single: Swiss Portrait – Lets Take A Walk
Contemplative and full of jangle pop perfection, Swiss Portrait’s new single is perfect for any wanderlust playlist.
Album: Maria Palmqvist – Unlove Me
This stark, brooding world will draw you in until you find yourself fully immersed in it. Dark at times, yet always beautiful.
Single: The Real Runna x HIGH – Alone
“Alone” splits its guitars across each ear before pulling everything into something warm and spacious, a burnout anthem that somehow still lifts you up.
Single: Secret Choir – better man
“Better man” hits gritty and direct from the first second, then opens into a hazy, slowed-down middle before snapping back, a song built for self-reflection on a long, lonely drive.
EP: starbelliedbug – Lash
The debut EP by the California dreamy rock band is a must listen for any shoegaze fan, touching on themes of confusion, ill-fated romance, isolation, and friendship breakups.
Single: Stevie Zita – down n out…
Zita returns with a new single capturing the suddenness of ennui and despair in soaring and serendipitous music.
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.
