Cognitive Dissonance Between Capitalism and Creation 
Album: Plummet – No Offering 
Single: Alpine Loop – Empty 
Cognitive Dissonance Between Capitalism and Creation
Ask yourself, how are you going to make your band feel more human? How are you going to continue to refuse to invest in AI?
Album: Plummet – No Offering
No Offering is the debut record by Plummet, an Oakland-based group that finds intensity through minimalism, dynamics, and duration.
Single: Alpine Loop – Empty
Alpine Loop’s new single from their upcoming album shows off their vocal chops and their ability to cut a solid emo ballad.
Single: jo from school – Chicken
North-London’s jo from school delivers on the jumbled heartache and fragments of anger after a breakup on her debut single, Chicken.
Single: Poor Petal – eyedrops
It all adds up to a cacophony of originality. I bet this is unlike anything you’ve heard in ages.
Single: My Best Unbeaten Brother – The Cracks And The Creases And The Mistakes
A full throttle, frantic burst of energy from the Croydon trio, The Cracks And The Creases And The Mistakes add a new energy to the band’s repertoire.
EP: Disarm – Silver City Songs
Heartfelt and warm, gritty and hard, the debut release from this Connecticut quartet is an impactful journey through emo, indie, math rock, grunge and more.
Single: Ok Goodnight – Spiral
Boston prog-metal greats put out their second swirling single with a heart-stopping music video to match.
Single: Lip Lift – sadness
Marie Demnig’s soft, angelic crooning adds an ethereal element to the song, characterizing the whole dream-pop aesthetic.
EP: fleecepantwarm – be with me
As a musical project, be with me is good. But pair it with the emotion behind it and the accompanying short film, and it’s absolutely great.
Single: Phantom Sugar – FADEAWAY
The Toronto four piece’s lamentation on heartbreak stands out as one of the most memorable indie ballads of the year to date.
Single: The Doomstompers – Political Jokes
Whip-smart and timely lyrics make the first track from the Doomstompers’ upcoming album an exciting preview of new music from a rising name in ska.
Single: Waking Hours – foxglove
An impressive example of making the most of musical dynamics, the new single from this Minnesota quintet is an absolute joy.
Album: Sun Era – Bedroom Cowboy
Sun Era drops their fourth album, a testament to their DIY ethic, traversing their own frontier with inspiration from the indie explorers before them.
Album: The Never Donts – Never Dont Party
The SLC band stakes its claim in the realm of ska-core, where anger and aggression are mandatory and where messaging is paramount.
Single: ultrasaturated – New Love
The lead track off the Italian dreamgazers’ new EP provides the perfect backdrop for dancing in the sun.
Single: Birds? – Leaves
“Leaves” is an articulate exploration of nostalgia and change—a swan song to a memory told through the sepia-tinged imagery of autumn.
Album: Big Weather – Big Weather
Big Weather cuts a path for themselves in bite sized packets of home.
EP: Twin Court – Ithakarta
A fusion of traditional Indonesian Javanese Gamelan and Western post-rock/slowcore sensibilities, this New York ensemble has crafted something moving, beautiful and really impressive.
Album: Pretty Baby – Layaway Plot
On their debut LP, Charlotte’s Pretty Baby point their melodic post-hardcore toward the grave and put all their grief and anger into the music.
