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.

DISCO DOOM | “Tuesday Comet”

With Mt. Surreal it seemed that everything Disco Doom had been working towards over the years came together in one idiosyncratic fusion of experimental art rock and outsider fuzz. The Zurich based quartet are able to contort catchy melodies into dazzling minimalist arrangements, with each motorik pulse and warped progression leading the way toward something familiar yet unknown. Just ahead of the band’s upcoming US tour dates, they return with a new two song single, Tuesday Comet, highlighting both their knack for meditative psychedelic warble (“Tuesday”) and motorik experimental pop (“Comet”). Both songs contort expectations with guitars that that are bent and layered, a patchwork of delightfully strange melodies that bubble and burst with a subtle nature. Texturally stunning, the songs skronk and groove with an unpredictability that demands to be listened to on repeat.

LEFT CROSS | “Upon Desecrated Altars” LP

While they’ve stayed relatively busy, Left Cross’ last full length was released six years ago and well, there’s been no shortage of devastation in the time since. The Richmond death metal / war metal band are here to annihilate once more, with an uncompromisingly heavy new album, Upon Desecrated Altars, a juggernaut of evil metal excess with bile to spare. Released via Profound Lore Records (Fabricant, Kruelty, Innumerable Forms), Left Cross aren’t holding any punches on an album that’s dense to point of pending collapse. The band’s stampeding drums and cavalcade of sordid riffs is often done at a sprint, the song’s demonically charged and set to decimate until rubble is all that remains. There’s enough grit and filth to turn your stomach, but Left Cross are forever plowing forward, a scourge of brutal music for brutal times..

MACH-HOMMY | “No Golden Calf” (feat. Tha God Fahim)

At this point we should all be accustomed to the mysterious nature of Mach-Hommy releases, accepting that much of his music will be released in limited formats with extremely high price tags. Last year saw the release of the Triz Saga, a collection of four EPs - Triz Nate, Triz Nathaniel, Triz Nathan, and Triz 9, which were then issued on vinyl in random foil packs like basketball cards. Maybe you got the one you wanted, maybe you didn’t, maybe you couldn’t afford it all (like me). Either way, aside from embedded streams on Mach-Hommy’s website, those songs lived exclusively on physical formats. “No Golden Calf,” a cut from the Triz 9 EP has made it’s way back into the world, an essential cut that glows with the duel chemistry that Mach-Hommy and Tha God Fahim find so often, the pair trading bars over a Fahim produced beat. The laid back MCs go at it in double time, bouncing over the jazzy beat with endless rhymes and a dexterous flow.

MARY TIMONY | “Dominoes”

There’s a new solo album from Mary Timony on the way, as good a reason to rejoice as any we can think of. It’s hard to believe it has been sixteen years since she released The Shapes We Make but she hasn’t exactly been missing, releasing a handful of albums with Ex Hex, Hammered Hulls, and the great Wild Flag (not to mention the Mary Timony plays Helium tour) in the years since. That being said, we’re thrilled for more unfiltered Mary Timony and eagerly await her new album, Untame The Tiger, due out in February via Merge Records (Fucked Up, A Giant Dog, M(h)aol). “Dominoes” is a fantastic lead single, weaving around a harmonized vocal and bright guitars that rarely stay in one place for long. It’s a fuzzy pop song that seems to draw from all eras of Timony’s impeccable output, sweet one moment and muscular the next. “Dominoes” offers big hooks and a lot of shimmering radio-friendly nuance.

SOVEREIGN | “Altered Reality”

There’s a great deal of atmosphere within Sovereign’s “Altered Reality,” the quasi title track to the Norwegian death metal band’s upcoming full length debut. With a sound that’s equal parts thrash and more traditional death metal, it’s immediately apparent that common structures are thrown out the window. “Altered Reality” whips and roars in fits and starts, a jagged composition in the world of metal with momentum barreling around oozing primal force and stunning technical ability. With Altered Realities due out in January via Dark Descent Records (Undergang, Reverence To Paroxysm, Ageless Summoning), the lead single feels like an epic quest through the dismal and festering, with spikes in texture that teeter between onslaught and corrosive grooves. The song feels brilliantly unstable, thrash pulled in all directions.

USA NAILS | “Feel Worse”

USA Nails joined forces in 2022 with Psychic Graveyard to release what may very well have been last year’s best split, a display of noise rock on somewhat opposite ends of the spectrum. In the case of USA Nails, they’ve been perfecting their sound for the past decade, creating an impenetrable wall of noise that’s often inclined to envelop our senses. Their sound isn’t so much as grating as it swarming, the sludgy pummel of their approach kicking up dirt like a tornado ripping through the city. The London based quartet return with Feel Worse, their first album for One Little Independent (Crass, Björk, Rifle), another opportunity for scuzz and propulsion in equal measure. The album’s title track is a belter, with mountainous riffs and thick as bricks distortion that peels in and out of colossal fills and harshly shouted vocals. There’s a sense of melody beneath it all, fighting to embed itself in the middle of the carnage.

WURLD SERIES | “Alive With Flies”

The upcoming Wurld Series album, The Giant’s Lawn, is definitely not meant to be heard as singles. Don’t get us wrong, the songs are undeniably great, but the thematic nature and scope of the record is most mesmerizing in context, the band bringing a Canterbury sort of prog touch to their New Zealand psych pop. Despite that fact, we’re still here salivating over snapshots, because this record is as alluring as they come. You can hear the blurring of genres on “Alive With Flies,” a song that’s fuzzy and rippling with insistent sax but still manages to sound equal parts folk and garage pop, all at the same time. As the sax squeals akin to a call from the wild, there’s a truly profound feeling to the song, slinking amid atonal squiggles, lush strings, and an earnest melody that crackles like a campfire. The Giant’s Lawn is coming, prepare yourselves.

YOUBET | “Carsick”

Three years after youbet’s now classic debut album, the Brooklyn based project returns with new single “Carsick,” the band’s first for Hardly Art (Lala Lala, Shana Cleveland, Caution). If you’ve ever witnessed the magic that comes with seeing the band live, they seem to capture it here, contorting melody with pinched harmonic grooves and a lackadaisical rhythm that keeps a loose frame. Nick Llobet and co. play with a lo-fi charm but the song feels impeccably realized, layering guitars and textures to create a free flowing charm, wavering with a pastoral psych breeze. While the song isn’t built with a massive hook (like many other youbet songs are), it’s in the calming nuance that it’s able to ramble between fuzz and gluey bent pop. A new album can’t come soon enough.

YUNGMORPHEUS & REAL BAD MAN | “The Amazing Randi” (feat. Kool Keith and Fatboi Sharif)

Real Bad Man, the LA based production team, has been on a tear between recent records with Boldy James, Kool Keith, and Blu. This week they’ve teamed up with none other than YUNGMORPHEUS for a new full length project, The Chalice & The Blade, set for release this coming Friday, November 17th. While YUNGMORPHEUS has already released one of the year’s best hip-hop albums with From Whence It Came, the combination of his rhymes and Real Bad Man’s dusty loops and haunting production should be another essential. Lead single “The Amazing Randi” pairs together YUNGMORPHEUS with Kool Keith and Fatboi Sharif, a combo of three MCs who operate entirely on their own wave length. They don’t disappoint, each narrating a singular tale that captures their unique deliveries, from YUNGMORPHEUS’ ultra smoked out stream of consciousness to Keith’s old school futurism and Sharif’s brilliantly demonic psych rhymes. It’s rare to get this much personality on one track.

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