Album: Carsie Blanton & the Burning Hell – Everything is Great
Carsie Blanton’s new album features outrage and the outrageous. It is absurdity as a response to a diabolical but absurd world.
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Album: Air Mail – a.m. Continental
Air Mail’s new album is pleasant and enjoyable little jaunt through precious songs that capture the feeling of an impressionable journey.
Album: Empired – Strikes Back
A couple years after their debut and with the world at least twenty times worse, Empired return with an album speaking more truth to power than ever before.
Album: Adiós Ghost – Happy House
Entirely live-tracked, the second album from the Brooklyn “power disco” quartet is full of immaculate vibes and impressive musicianship.
Album: Vilde – Qualia At Odds
Dreamy synths, glittering guitars and woozy electronic textures combine to make an evocative album full of gentle off-kilter lullabies.
Album: Kvisa – A Pathetic Excuse For A Feeling
Kvisa, in Hebrew – כביסה – means “laundry” or “washing”. I did not know that
Album: Bleak Streak – Peak Bleak
Sweden’s Bleak Streak rave on about the lowest lows of life with punk rhythms written to raise your spirits, regardless of the lyrics.
Album: The Pretty Flowers – Never Felt Bitter
The Pretty Flowers’ third album uses the ideas of space and community to produce a big sound, one more massive than the sum of its parts.
Album: SSAANN – Higher
The Milwaukee dream gaze band’s debut album sequences lush synths into a symphony for introspection.
Album: Hanemoon – Untitled
A polished tapestry of guitar-driven bedroom pop, 90’s slacker indie, and 60’s psych-pop whose effect lands softly, vivid in its impact but blurred at the edges like a memory.
Album: Mindy Gledhill – The Phone Booth Sessions, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
On Vol. 2 of The Phone Booth Sessions, Mindy Gledhill continues her talks with her inner adolescent, weaving the edges and roughness of her younger days into her music.
Album: Jacob The Horse – At Least It’s Almost Over
Jacob The Horse’s brand of punk blares triumphant, a fanfare to stir the heartstrings against an unjust society.
Album: ELROD – House Fires And Broken Teeth
ELROD’s new album crafts a complex sonic portrait — dark, enchanting, magical and haunting — all with succinct brevity.
Album: Special Friend – Clipping
Though each song on Special Friend’s third record is different, the duo has a signature sound that ties everything together.
Album: Justin Sconza – Fantasy
Short and sweet, well-rounded and perfectly formed: Chicago songsmith Justin Sconza’s classic songwriting will put a smile on your face.
Album: Aizat Haris – The World Keeps On Spinning
“It’s pretty underground, you wouldn’t know what that, uh, what that is,” jests “Parting Words”,
Album: Elly Kace – The Seventh Gate
Elly Kace brings us ten new “sound medicine songs” for healing and release from the world’s many trappings.
Album: How I Became Invisible – Dead World Building (Gimp Leg’s Take)
How I Became Invisible isn’t a disappearing act: It’s a survival guide for a community.
Album: kingcaid – Colorblind Quarterback
kingcaid’s new album is a delicious smorgasbord of styles and genres, and is populated by a cast of distinct personalities.
Album: How I Became Invisible – Dead World Building (Christian’s Take)
Two of our Start-Track writers took a liking to How I Became Invisible’s new album,