Now a four-piece group, The Green Child has released their latest sci-fi-esque synth-pop album, Look Familiar, via Upset the Rhythm/Hobbies Galore. Building on their already-established sound, this album showcases tighter grooves and a collective focus.

It feels stupidly cliché to say that a band called Twine sounds “rough,” “frayed,” or “wound-up,” but the most defining quality of the Australian quintet’s full-length debut New Old Horse is how tense and abrasive it is.

7xvethegenius — “Love” for the uninitiated — has one of rap’s unique flows. Poetic in rhythm and biting in delivery, 7xve’s wordplay is like a prize fighter, ducking jabs and delivering knock out blows. She spoke with Post-Trash’s Benji Heywood about perseverance, technology, and her new album, Death Of Deuce.

Nobody Loves You More is undoubtedly Kim Deal’s most sincere album. Its warm and sunny tone has been widely noted – there is a pink flamingo on the LP’s sleeve like it’s a Christopher Cross album – and explained as a reflection of her unanticipated time in Florida.

“Peace” is an immediate song, blasting out the gate with a dreary wall of sound, the tone bleak but massive all the same. Lee eschews abrasion though as “Peace” sounds heavenly, the dirge of distorted guitars and pounding drums embedded in swollen melodies.

It takes a lot of chutzpah for a band to dub themselves the progenitors of a new genre, but Seattle’s Black Ends are up to the task, trading in what they call “gunk pop.” A sideways inversion of pop-punk, deep from the Pacific Northwest ethos of bluesy, heavy grunge and raucous, righteous Riot Girl.

Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web.

Thurston Moore has been quite busy as of late. His most recent release, Flow Critical Lucidity, is a brilliantly crafted album. With the help of poet Radieux Radio, it manages to be a worthwhile time showcasing Moore’s immaculate musicianship, still unsurprisingly fascinating.

Scrunchies, a band from Minneapolis brings a bombastic and explosive excitement to their latest album, Colossal. The band have an unbridled intensity and a unique style that pays homage to bands before them yet still showcases their ingenuity within the riot grrrl genre.

Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web.

Shoegaze is having a moment – anyone with the technology can create something from their bedrooms. Widespread access is a net positive but also flattens the final product. If anyone can construct a track, it takes more to stand out. Luckily, Her New Knife doesn’t have that issue.

2 is indeed the second album from Texan four-piece Queen Serene and within the confines of its release we find a band honing their biting, muscular, guitar-forward spirit with a gauzy musical intensity that refuses to wither. 

Clouds in the Sky… is one of those records that feels destined to wriggle into the bones of anyone who comes across it—a heartbreak album that can stand in for literally any kind of messy grieving, whether universal or personal, amorphous or hyper-specific.

“Agglutination” feels cathartic, working from a general ease toward a mounting tension, but glistening all the while. The video, shot by Bryan Hamill and animated/edited by Rick Rude’s own Ryan Harrison, pairs together live performance footage with delightfully scribbled cartoons.

Horse Jumper of Love continue to push boundaries, both musical and emotional. This release veers more fully into earnestness, and it’s their best album as a result. As noted, the LP marks a new period of sobriety for Dimitri Giannopoulos, who quit drinking prior to the recording, and the album bears clear traces of this turn.

From a sun-blanched apartment in Ukrainian Village, Friko’s Niko Kapetan talks about the band’s future while acknowledging how fortunate they’ve been, Chicago’s incredibly supportive scene, and how chasing the right feeling makes for great music.

A Healthy Future on Earth is the sophomore full length from Australian post-punk/shoegaze trio Miners, fronted by Blake Clee and featuring friends Nick Johnson (Mope City, Shrapnel) and Wilson Harris. The record is full of sharp guitar hooks and a trembly sense of nerves for the outer world.

The video, directed by Luke Csehak and Madeline Rose Carter is delightfully strange and equally as wonderful as the single itself, a “Lentil-pilled” trip that only gets more surreal as time passes and the “drugs” take hold.

The Armed perpetuate a sense of loneliness, performativity, and chaos on their new EP, Everlasting Gaze.

Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web.

On her debut, Morpho Season, she takes the approach of an observer in regards to subjects like memory, lost relations, nature, and outside environments with a tactile approach full of compassion and strength. 

A weekly post highlighting but a few of our favorite new releases in splendid alphabetical order, brief and (hopefully) informative. There’s a lot of great music out every week and these are but some of the many we think you should check out.

Melbourne collective Bananagun came out of nowhere with their debut album, an intriguing combination of sunshine pop and afrobeat rhythms. Four years on, the band are back with Why is the Colour of the Sky?, a set of ten songs that audibly push the band into new musical territory.

Considering the fact that Chicago’s Bursting features members of Yautja, Stress Positions, Thou, and Coliseum (among others), it’s fair to have expectations in terms of quality. The good news is that beyond having pedigree for days, any expectations are blown away.

You Never End isn’t merely the most complex work Moin’s released, but their coldest and most emotive. Where previous works played more with noisy abrasion Moin now embraces the rhythms of dub and the guitar croons of shoegaze to create their most atmospheric work since their RAIME days.

Miami’s Winded are back, and they’ve come to rip. While Thrin Vianale recorded each of the previous releases solo, the project has expanded into a quartet for Double Single, an enormous reintroduction to the band, recorded together with Jon Nuñez (Torche, Shitstorm).

Pass the Loofah is the sophomore album from beat oriented Oakland post-punk band Naked Roommate, detached and playfully poking at life’s absurd moments in a way that’s easy to love. Amber Sermeno's vocals are mostly dry as she blankly intones put downs and witty wordplay.

Still Praying serves as the return to form we've been waiting for; Westside Gunn is at his most confident and artistically assured yet. This time around, the album emphasizes less of his usual swagger and brings more authentic depth.

Whether with a sense of irony, sincerity, or just sealing their brand, The Hard Quartet actually do go hard on the first several tracks of their self-titled debut, as if, after all they’ve accomplished during their respective careers, they still have something to prove.