Single: Fountain Road – What Great Light 
Single: Makeout Point – $50 
Single: Pespi – Stink 
Single: Fountain Road – What Great Light
“What Great Light” by Fountain Road: A sonic storm, delivering flashes of hope in the maelstrom of contemporary dread.
Single: Makeout Point – $50
A two minute blast of distorted guitars and punky drums that grabs you from the first radio static crackle and doesn’t let go.
Single: Pespi – Stink
The NYC three-piece offers a sense of escapism which doesn’t last long due to a daunting reality.
Single: Had Sandy – I Hate My Parents And I Wanna Learn How To Swim
Brighton’s Had Sandy said “Let’s take you back to high school” with their new song.
Single: Fleeting Colors – Autumn
I listened several times just to have a grasp of what the hell was happening (complimentary).
Single: airhockey – nice day
The feeling they invoke is quiet, inexplicable, and intangible; the way the best feelings are experienced.
Single: Angela – Immaterial
Listening to ‘Immaterial’ will transport you to the middle of a tumultuous, crashing sea.
Album: Doc Turbo – What’s So Important?
Bold, clean, fresh, and powerful: Doc Turbo is bringing skanking back with their new album.
Single: Lamplight – Clover
Clover reminds me about the importance of leaning into life and accepting it just as it is, never forgetting to be grateful for the ability to experience this blip in time.
Single: Silver Firs x no phase – Vacation in Spain
Stemming from a track from decades ago, Silver Firs taps no phase singer Flurina Häberli to dish against the dominance of men in the scene.
Single: Devon Kay & The Solutions – Heart to Break
Chicago’s horn-heavy punk legends return with a new song on an upcoming with a boisterous – but not unbelievable – title.
Single: Rude Echoes – We Are
The Chicago ska band releases a live favorite that calls to action every member of the generation in a position of power to leave behind a better world for the next.
Single: Lalu – mine hænder
“mine hænder” is a staggeringly mature debut – heartfelt, achingly beautiful, and one of Grubby’s top tracks of the year.
Single: alone in a crowded room – night comes
“night comes” weaves an evocative blend of ethereal indie folk that deftly balances dreamy sadness with intimacy and warmth.
Single: The Van Pelt – A Voralberg of the Mind
The second single of the legendary indie band’s comeback album couches obscurity in a collage of spoken-word repartee and effervescent guitars.
Album: Weak Hands – We Can’t!
After a decade of existence, the Toronto band finally releases their debut album, a confident collection of tracks about heartbreak and healing.
Single: Ethereal Gone Kids – She’s Way Too Cool
…reminds me of falling into an endless whirlpool of pure hypnotic entrancement.
Album: Peaks of Valleys – Eclipse
Eclipse by Peaks of Valleys, an electronic/ambient indie rock band from Madison, Wisconsin, is the sonic equivalent of a closing eye, too stubborn to submit to sleepiness or an eclipse that is too shy to be observed but self-assured enough to appear in the sky. It rests at an in-between state of dark and light. Sleep and wakefulness. Absence and appearance. This is a record that is comfortably contradictory in terms of both its lyrics and the soundscape it engenders that wreathes your ears reminiscent of the velvetiness of the music of bands like Amber Run and Sleeping At Last.
Single: konnie x Raphyi – in too deep (bloom)
konnie and Raphyi have captured the sound of the summer with this dreamy, addictive track – it is the perfect accompaniment to a sunset drive on a warm summer’s night!
Single: Meadow – Yon
Meadow takes familiar elements from post-hardcore and shoegaze and pushes them toward something more atmospheric and psychedelic, creating a track that feels both nostalgic and strangely unfamiliar.
