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.
200 STAB WOUNDS | “Hands of Eternity”
Three years after the release of their breakthrough album, Slave to the Scalpel, Cleveland’s 200 Stab Wounds return with the heavily anticipated Manual Manic Procedures, due out June 28th via Metal Blade Records (Cannibal Corpse, Cattle Decapitation). Having spent the majority of the past few years on the road, the band’s brand of gore splattered barbaric death metal is in fine form on “Hands of Eternity,” the record’s lead single and opening track, a song that embraces a calm before the storm introduction before they come grinding into a primitive rage. The song whips through filth like a buzzsaw of OSDM fury, shifting the pummeling tempos in a way that feels truly inspired, and inherently disgusting.
CRUMB | “The Bug”
Having built a (well deserved) massive following over the past eight years, New York City’s Crumb require no introduction. Known for their mix of psychedelic pop, jazzy art rock, and experimental indie, the quartet announced their third full length, AMAMA, due out May 17th. After sharing the album’s title track, they’re back with “The Bug,” a swirling song that feels gripped by past memories, pushing forward toward growth but unable to escape the titular hold. The composition is stunning as always, slinking into synthetic drifts, deep bass, and skittering rhythms, the song evolving as guitars and harpsichord bend melodies, opening to new galaxies and unknown territory that feels akin to a vision among a multitude of insect eyes.
MANDY | “Lawn Girl” LP
There’s so much to love about Mandy’s full length debut, Lawn Girl, a record that embraces the forms of femininity from youth to motherhood, exploring an evolution of self with both unshakeable hooks and raw squalling melodic force. Miranda Winters and her band (Wendy Zeldin, Lizz Smith, Linda Sherman) have crafted an album that feels both chaotic and poetic, beautiful and blistering in equal measure. The deeply embedded earworms and lyrical brilliance allows this album to shine so brightly, even in its exploration of anxiety and depressive lows. Songs like “Ms Appear,” “Acid Base,” and “Mickey’s Dead Stuff” highlight the strength that the full band brings to Mandy’s sound, giving emphasis and muscle to Winters’ introspection.
PARSNIP | “Behold” LP
There’s a special glow to Parsnip’s music, a lightness that retains substance, a whimsical sound that’s built with more nuance than one might expect. Behold, the Melbourne based quartet’s second full length album, released via Anti Fade Records (Program, Uranium Club, Alien Nosejob) and Upset The Rhythm (Marcel Wave, Normil Hawaiians, Earth Ball), feels as though the band have become ever so slightly unglued. Their swarming pop charm is still in tact but they’re embracing the weirdness of their psychedelic influences, the result a rich world of textural differences, moments that pop and glimmer, aiding and abetting the brilliance of their songs in a way that swoons and disorients in equal measure.
YOUBET | “Vacancy”
The long wait for the new Youbet album is nearly over. With Way To Be, the band’s Hardly Art (Lala Lala, Shana Cleveland, Caution) debut due out on May 10th, the band share new single “Vacancy,” a wispy track that relies on a strong backbeat and the multi-layered acoustic and electric guitars. Nick Llobet and co. move from section to section with such a gentle grace, shifting tonality and textures in a way that feels supernatural. The video, directed by Shane Roberts captures insects doing their thing, living their life, and carrying on about their business (shout out to that yellow slug). Youbet keep the progression flowing, gliding between a shimmer and a wall of brief distortion.
Further Listening:
AISLE KNOT “Someone To Love” | BAD BREEDING “Liberty” | BEINGS “Flowers That Talk / Happy To Be” | BOOTLICKER “Red Serge” | CORRIDOR “Jump Cut” | CULTS “Crybaby” | DRUG COUNTRY “Bird Patterns“ | DUST STAR “Back To The Start” | FAMILY VISION “Sharpest Edge” | FLORIST “Riding Around In The Dark” | GEL “Mirage” | GOBLIN DAYCARE “Liar, Liar” | JAY WORTHY & DAM-FUNK “Westside” (feat. DRAM) | JIM WHITE & MARISA ANDERSON “Peregrine” | KARA JACKSON “Right, Wrong or Ready” (Karen Dalton cover) | KRONOS QUARTET “Outer Spaceways Incorporated” (feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow) (Sun Ra cover) | LAMBRINI GIRLS “Body Of Mine” | LES SAVY FAV “World Got Great” | LIGHTNING BUG “Lullaby For Love” | MARINA ALLEN “Swinging Doors” | MIA JUNE “Moth Penny Casino / The Way It Is” EP | MONDE UFO “Amen” (Spacemen 3 cover) | MUI ZYU “The Rules Of What An Earthling Can Be” | PREVIOUS INDUSTRIES “Pliers” | SEN MORIMOTO “BONK!” EP | SHANNON LAY “Mirrors” | SHARP PINS “Race For The Audience” | SPICE 1 “Since The Day” (feat. CL Smooth & DJ Premier) | STRYCHNOS “Armageddon Patronage” | SUN ORGAN “Times They Are A Changin’” (Bob Dylan cover) | T.E.SHANDY & HA HA LAUGHING “Eno” | TEX PATRELLO “Resident Evil” | THOM YORKE “Knife Edge” + “Prize Giving” | THURSTON MOORE “Rewilding” | TZOMPANTLI “Chichimecatl” | UPCHUCK “Sense Yourself (2024 Segall Mix)” LP | ZERO POINT ENERGY “All That You Want”