Album: Ancient Channels – Static Spirit
If things feel like they are falling down the drain and threatening to take you with it, Static Spirit may be the album for you.
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Album: i give my friends flowers – DOGSTAR 1
Through natural disasters, deaths, broken relationships and relocations comes DOGSTAR I, the first in a cathartic 2 album set from multi-instrumentalist and producer Jacob Klein.
Album: funeral plain – negation of negation
On Negation of Negation, over a whirring, staticky noise-rock score, Chicago-based band, Funeral Plain proposes that destruction is essentially a form of change. And losing yourself implicitly raises the possibility that you will find yourself; and that when you do, you will discover nothing, or in lyricist, Jonny Gill’s words, ‘no-thing.’ This record argues, as Jonny Gill told me, that there is no innate being, just a continual process of becoming. But first you have to lose yourself.
Album: fuvk – thirty
Clear your calendar and spend time with this album’s intricate, fleeting, genre blending chapters.
Album: Jaewon – Alone At The Movies
Born from a place of isolation and reclusiveness, this cinematic – but also somehow subtle – concept album is very much a job well done.
Album: Azalia Snail – Gentle Mental
This instrumental album understands your sense of fear and gives you a crackle of tranquility and hope within the madness.
Album: Wills Van Doorn – Enduro
Van Doorn’s new record blends power pop, blues, and jazz to give live energy and stress the importance of keeping a steady pace on the road and in life.
Album: moodlighting – Party School
With more of dark New Wave jangle pop sound than “house banger”, the LA duo’s third album teaches that life – even the more menial moments – is the party.
Album: The Skariginals – Get Out of Your Head
On their new full-length album, the LA ska band bursts forth with a wake up call for anyone who needs to wake up and experience joy.
Album: sam hirst – Defenseless, good
Made entirely by himself, the San Francisco-based multi-instrumentalists 8th album is a fine mixture of musical ambition and impressive singular vision.
Album: The Summerlands – Bonfante Gardens Forever
In the new indie punk symphony, songwriter Grant Simmons ruminates on how to grapple with an increasingly inhospitable hometown and more unwelcoming world.
Album: Welcome Strawberry – desperate flowers / desperate flowers remixes
This rad groove is audaciously implanted into a mix of opposite aesthetics
Album: Annalies Tang – Annalies Tang
“Annalies Tang has beautiful vocals, the horns accent the song beautifully, and the ska rhythm on the guitar feels light and pleasant.”
Album: Covent – Under the Changed Sun
The Leeds-based shoegaze trio takes their many years of experience melting faces on stage and transfers it into ten tracks that make up their debut LP.
Album: Baby Muffler – Birthday
A good twelve minutes of solid angst and attitude from Providence, recorded live to tape in keeping with true punk ethos.
Album: Rupit – NEU
NEU is a modern indie triumph which cements Rupit as a pioneer of his unique sound, thematically rich and lyrically impressive.
Album: Moon Void – The Gathering
Triangulate the aesthetics of Grouper, Skullcrusher, and Maria B.C., and you get something like the breathtaking new album “The Gathering” from Moon Void.
Album: NEIS – Doghouse
Rich in individuality and distinctiveness, this Sydney-based uncle and niece duo build worlds from their dark, singular sound. Worlds built of dirt, clay, soot and sludge.
Album: Josaleigh Pollett – If I Let It Quiet
On their fourth album, Pollett and long-time collaborator Jordan Watko reach out through time and space to craft a haunting and beautiful collection of music.
Album: Tugboat Captain – All at Once
It took nearly a decade and a rotating cast of collaborators for Tugboat Captain to find a nice equilibrium.