Album: The Serfers – DEBT SOUNDS
A meticulously produced collage of sounds that has something new to offer at every turn.
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Album: Something To Do – A Little Misdirection
On their new album, Something To Do has stepped up their game and written an album full of powerful horns lines and intoxicating vocal melodies.
Album: NEWFARE – Walk With Me
A comfortingly familiar rock n roll feast, this fantastic debut is also incredibly distinctive.
Album: Be Decent – Now’s The Time
Be Decent – the four-piece ska band from Brooklyn, New York – is doing something
Album: Careful Gaze – IT DOES NOT SLEEP
A collection of love songs more about facing the feelings that haunt you, pumped through post-hardcore passion on the Minneapolis band’s third album.
Album: Club 8 – Weeks of Golden Beats
Club 8 are professionals at creating a chic atmosphere, with hints of something that resembles indie shoegaze with a “beachy” undertone.
Album: New Age Healers – Blowing Smoke Through The Choir
New Age Healers’ latest album is a blend of the political and the personal, drenched in dense instrumental layers.
Album: Azure Rose – Blue Drops
“Blue Drops” is a cohesive hodge-podge of shoegaze, dream pop, and indie rock, with a dash of folk that checks every box in my brain for a promising record.
Album: Stonefruit – Good News Only
The indie dreamgaze rock band Stonefruit’s debut album Good News Only is an equal parts whispered confession and brave declaration of love.
Album: Lonesome Rhodes – Red River Rain
The third record from Kevin F. Johnson’s songwriting outlet is rich with indie pop romance and introspection at the precipice of a new life era.
Album: Pink Slip – Bathtub Madonna
The Boston seven-piece brings on the East Coast punk, with a touch of California to make them stand out from the mold.
Album: Andrew Van Lennox – Collected Ghost Stories
This is not a story of a haunted house; it is instead about the haunted self. The ghosts that live on your tongue, behind your eyes, and wrapped around your sullen limbs. You are haunting yourself. This album’s musical landscape stalks closer and closer to you until it is close enough for you to realize it was never chasing you; it was nudging you toward this epiphany: you are haunting yourself.
Album: Nathan Kendall – Flash Channel
A triumphant debut, this is one of the most richly diverse and entertaining albums I’ve heard this year.
Album: Milk St. – Good Grief
An absolute rush of emotion about disillusionment, disassociation, and – of course – grief results in 13 new bangers on Milk St.’s ripping third album.
Album: Sea Lions – Another POP! Music
The long-awaited second LP from the Oxnard group is brimming with rich vocal harmonies, vivacious instrumentation, pop charm, and tunes for days.
Album: Carlos Moralez – Field Notes
On an album that defies genre, LA’s Moralez reveals years of research on love and death in meditations, confessions, and reflections.
Album: desksnail – Lights Leak
These songs take hold in secret, stealth-boldened waves. There is a sadness to it all but also a sense of quiet hope – the warm, trembling arrival of more ambient atmospherics opening up like a freshly risen sun on a soft and secret summer’s morning.
Album: Doc Turbo – What’s So Important?
Bold, clean, fresh, and powerful: Doc Turbo is bringing skanking back with their new album.
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.
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.