by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)

Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, our weekly recap of this week's new 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. It's generally written in the early hours of the morning and semi-unedited... but full of love and heart. The list is in alphabetical order and we sincerely recommend checking out all the music we've included. There's a lot of great new music being released. Support the bands you love. Spread the word and buy some new music.

*Disclaimer: We are making a conscious effort not to include any artist in our countdown on back-to-back weeks in order to diversify the feature, so be sure to check the "further listening" as well because it's often of top-notch quality too.

BAD HISTORY MONTH | “A Survey of Cosmic Repulsion”

The second single from Bad History Month’s upcoming album, Old Blues, may not stretch out past the thirteen minute mark, but there’s still plenty of profound lyrical depth to be found on “A Survey of Cosmic Repulsion”. A long staple of the project’s live sets, this song is packed with humorous wit matched with depressing realities often left unexplored, both personal and outwardly reflective, a song that digs into the distorted perceptions we suffer. As Sean Sprecher sings “Knowing this, I've tried to allow, people close to me to be free, of Expectation, and Disappointment, but they just wind up disappointed in me,” it’s a song that wanders from beautiful thoughts to dismal in a matter of moments, with lyrics that are consistently brilliant.

BLACK CURSE | “Endless Wound” LP

Hold on to your butts. Black Curse’s debut album, Endless Wound, it’s a rampant barrage of death metal, doom, grind, and black metal, and it just crushes like in an apocalyptic kind of way. The Denver based trio (which features members of Spectral Voice and Primitive Band) have painstakingly layered riff after riff with stampeding rhythms and enough disgust to last a lifetime. Maybe its “the times” but I’ve been listening to a lot of death metal recently and Black Curse is a great addition to the genre’s finer moments, just utterly relentless, like a herd of elephants running (and running fast) over scorched earth, as riffs just keep shifting and shifting and shifting. For anyone that likes the forward thinking heaviness of Blood Incantation or Oranssi Pazuzu, check this one out.

DAMAGED BUG | “Sold America” (Michael Yonkers cover)

Damaged Bug, the solo project of Oh See’s John Dwyer, is following up the great Bunker Funk (an album I’ve been thinking about a lot during quarantine as I’ve literally been in a “bunker funk” here and there), with a record of Michael Yonkers covers, appropriately titled, Bug On Yonkers. Following a period of writers block for Dwyer (which is near impossible to imagine), he decided to work on covers, inspired by the naturally weird experimental folk catalog of Yonkers, one that has gifted many different sounds, all well within the Damaged Bug universe. The second single, “Sold America,” from Yonkers’ seminal Microminiature Love, is a song about American greed and the control of the wealthy. Dwyer rips the cover with grooving synths, a staggering rhythm that crawls under your skin, and plenty of oscillating reverb boogie.

MOMMA | “Biohazard”

Following their great debut album, Interloper, Los Angeles’ Momma are back with their sophomore record, Two Of Me, due out June 5th via Danger Collective Records (French Vanilla, Surf Curse). Having recently shared the first single “Double Dare,” the duo are sharing their latest, “Biohazard”. Leaning on the band’s darker side, but still with sweet harmonies abound, it’s a great example of what Momma do best, writing bright bedroom pop songs that are built on muscular guitar leads and enough tension to keep the discordance balanced with their overt pop sensibilities. The band shared that “Biohazard” is “about a man who struggles with Dissociative Identity Disorder and harms someone while he is in a different state of mind,” creating a darkened atmosphere for an equally dim light subject.

NNAMDÏ | “Gimme Gimme”

NNAMDÏ released his highly anticipated new album, BRAT, shinning a much needed light on us all with his other planetary mix of hip-hip, R&B, and experimental pop music in that special way only he can. His sense of character and the bugged out nature of his jams come vividly to life on “Gimme Gimme” and it’s new video that stars both Nnamdi and everyone’s favorite kid dancer, Kylar Perkins. You may remember the video of him dancing to Nnamdi’s set, if you’ve seen it, you’ll never forget. He’s got serious moves. Thankfully, due to the hard work of the Sooper Records team, they were able to track him down and put him in the New Trash directed video, only for Nnamdi to steal his damn ice cream. It’s a truly great video for a truly great song.

OHMME | “Ghost”

There’s a motorik groove and a kinetic energy to Ohmme’s “Ghost,” the second single from their upcoming album, Fantasize Your Ghost. What comes beyond that is irrelevant as you’ve already been sucked into their art pop world of post-punk minimalism and swirling noise pop. With close harmonies and soaring hooks, the duo offer a cold analysis of someone who thinks they’re a lot greater than they are but Ohmme are quick to remind them “they’re sick of looking at that stupid look on your face”. It’s a stark song that opens into a psychedelic ooze of careening guitar and tight structuring.

TROPICAL FUCK STORM | “This Perfect Day” (feat. Amy Taylor) (The Saints cover)

“This Perfect Day” doesn’t really feel like a Tropical Fuck Storm song and there’s good reason for it, it’s not, but it sure does sound great. Covering Australia’s own The Saints, the band are joined by Amy Taylor of Amyl And The Sniffers on lead vocals, an apt pairing to unleash in primal garage punk type fury. The vocals are barked out without a care, just melodic enough to hum and shout along too but with an unshakeable attitude that simply doesn’t give a fuck. There’s little in terms of the signature bent and manipulated chord progressions that we’ve come to expect from TFS, but it rips all the same.

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