by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_), Kris Handel, and Patrick Pilch (@hosewater0)

Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, our 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. 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.

ANNE MALIN
“Stories”

Strange Power!, the fifth album from Durham, North Carolina’s Anne Malin (aka Anne Malin Ringwalt) is due out October 25th via Dear Life Records (Nina Ryser, Lindsay Reamer, Hour), a gorgeous blend of dimly lit folk music and poetic lyrics (the album itself is released in conjunction with a book of her poetry). “Stories,” the record’s second single is the album’s closing track, a sparse but undeniably power song that hits like a ton of bricks as everything plays to the down beat, like clouds creeping in to cover the once splendid sun. As Malin wonders the greater plot points, asking how to know who we are without knowing where we’ve been, there’s an enigmatic quality to her words, but for all the weight of the composition, “Stories” remains beautiful, unflinching and substantiated in its search for clarity. - DG

THE EUROSUITE
“Bagman”

London’s The Eurosuite, a band that features members of both USA Nails and Nitkowski, are set to release their album, Totally Fine, on October 18th, a primal noise rock record that feels inherently non fussed by design. While their second album, Sorry, was built around electronic clamor that felt alien more often than not, Totally Fine seems to be more about outward aggression and brute carnage. “Bagman,” the record’s second single is abrasive as all hell, delightfully weird, and grooving in a detached no-wave manner. The lines of the warped synth punk chaos are sharp and serrated, rattled from one punishing rhythm to the next oozing pulse. The mostly atonal structure isn’t without it’s hooks though, as the raw processed vocal howl keeps things locked into place - DG

FINOM
“Hungry (Live)”

Way back in May (it feels like a lifetime ago), Finom released the phenomenal Not God, one of the year’s best and brightest art rock albums. The duo of Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart brought their band (Spencer Tweedy and V.V. Lightbody) out for a few select dates to celebrate, playing the album in full to captivated audiences. I was lucky enough to catch the Brooklyn date at The Sultan Room, where Finom played an incredibly dazzling set, locking into the heart and the momentum of the album, bringing their songs to life with a cheery focus. “Hungry,” taken from that very show, finds the band bouncing on a motorik beat (Tweedy’s entire performance was wonderfully dexterous), allowing the tension to mount as their harmonies swell and mystify on a beautiful reflection of life post-giving birth. Here’s hoping the whole show gets an eventual release. - DG

THE HARD QUARTET
“It Suits You”

No one likes a dang ol’ supergroup… except when they do. The Hard Quartet is an exceptional pairing of veteran musicians that understand each other. They know when to shine and when to give space to one another. Throughout their self-titled debut each of the members - Jim White (Dirty Three), Stephen Malkmus (Pavement), Emmett Kelly (The Cairo Gang), and Matt Sweeney (Chavez), prove to be pieces of the puzzle, the camaraderie and mutual admiration the glue that seems to hold them together. Case in point, “It Suits You,” an undeniable highlight that puts Sweeney front and center, rippling with a similar magic to Chavez’s legendary work, tightly coiled but majestic, a song that feels as though it could explode at any moment but keeps it’s composure amid a brilliant resolve. There’s no ego here, just great songwriting. - DG

KASSIE KRUT
“Reckless”

Kassie Krut is the new project of Eve Alpert and Kasra Kurt (formerly of Palm) along with Matt Andereg (Mothers) and "Reckless" is their fourth single, carving a new path forward full of electronic squalls and hypnotic beats. Anderegg's drums rattle and snap at the snare as Alpert's vocals chant/spell out the band name between expressing a desire for freedom and acceptance. Alpert and Kurt contine to push the limit of musical form and boundaries with a unique sense of experimentalism while also playing off their ability to craft divine melodies. "Reckless" will compel the listener to want to get up and break out any and all imaginative movements and warmly open themselves up to all sorts of kinetic euphoria with it's grinding and perplexing beauty. - Kris Handel

OPEN HEAD
“Catacomb”

Kingston’s Open Head cross New York no wave with crushing industrial noise. Their music reflects our world and the band’s immediate surroundings - brutalist, skeletal, crumbling - much like the Hudson Valley’s abandoned manufacturing plants. Last week, the Wharf Cat signees shared “Catacomb,” a pummeling, ruinous single that draws deep from the well of NYC avant-garde. Open Head pulled “Catacomb” out of an improvised set, with the goal being to create something “immediate and powerful.” Trading in their guitars, the band built “Catacomb” by processed sound, collapsing and rearranging Brandon Minnervini’s prepared guitar and Daniel Schwartz’ Moroccan rai rhythms in repurposed fashion. Reportedly marking a pivot in their sound, “Catacomb” is a mammoth introduction to Open Head’s fractured reflections. - Patrick Pilch

SKIRTS
“Run”

Dallas’ Skirts released a great new single last week, which is hopefully a sign there’s a new full length on the way. “Run” is the first Skirts song I’d ever listened to, but it’s certainly not the last. The wailing new single pushed me toward 2021’s excellent Great Big Wild Oak, a record which tells me “Run” is an expansive new pivot for Skirts. It’s a welcome development in the band’s laid-back bedroom folk and contains massive, wailing guitars that blow out Oak’s sharp Americana loll, though Skirts’ Alex Montenegro still finds time to dial it back to a skeletal piano amid the discord. - Patrick Pilch

THANK
"Woke Fraiser"

“Woke Fraiser,” the sardonic third single from Thank’s upcoming album, I Have A Physical Body That Can Be Harmed, could be the band’s most obnoxious single yet… and that really says something (and yet we’d have it no other way). Of course, we do mean that as a compliment, it’s hard to sound so sarcastic and agitated while poking the bear at the same time. “Woke Fraiser” opens with a thrush of electronic rhythm, pounding away as Freddy Vinehill-Cliff laments the world “gone woke” from The Simpsons, to your credit card details, to your beloved family dog. It’s a hilarious jab at those “doing their own research,” you know the insufferable types. As the song’s hypnotic groove contorts, thing come unglued, culminating in a dense stampede of Steve Myles’ drums. - DG

Further Listening:

September 23 - September 29:

SEPTEMBER 30 - October 06:

Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (September 23rd - October 6th)

ANNE MALIN
“Stories”

THE EUROSUITE
“Bagman”

FINOM
“Hungry (Live)”

THE HARD QUARTET
“It Suits You”

KASSIE KRUT
“Reckless”

OPEN HEAD
“Catacomb”

SKIRTS
“Run”

THANK
"Woke Fraiser"

Further Listening:

September 23 - September 29:

SEPTEMBER 30 - October 06:

by: post-trash staff

ANNE MALIN “Stories”

THE EUROSUITE “Bagman”

FINOM“Hungry (Live)”

THE HARD QUARTET “It Suits You”

KASSIE KRUT“Reckless”

OPEN HEAD “Catacomb”

SKIRTS “Run”

THANK "Woke Fraiser"

Further Listening:

September 23 - September 29:

SEPTEMBER 30 - October 06:

by: post-trash staff

ANNE MALIN
“Stories”

THE EUROSUITE
“Bagman”

FINOM
“Hungry (Live)”

THE HARD QUARTET
“It Suits You”

KASSIE KRUT
“Reckless”

OPEN HEAD
“Catacomb”

SKIRTS
“Run”

THANK
"Woke Fraiser"