Further Listening: A Compendium | Year-End 2022 Feature
As anyone who reads our “Fuzzy Meadows” column already knows, the “list” is just the beginning, and we’re always eager to add some “Further Listening” for consideration. Despite what some would have you believe, music is not a contest. We profiled many records in our “Year In Review” feature, but the fun doesn’t stop there.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (July 18th - July 31st)
Post-Trash's Mid-Year Report: Our Favorites Releases of 2022 (January thru June)
We present our “Mid-Year Report," a comprehensive guide to our favorite releases of the first half of this year, without any pre-determined length or insignificant rankings. If we’re into it, we're including it (unless we plumb forgot it or just haven’t spent enough time with it… which happens, in which case our sincerest of apologies).
Caution - "Arcola" | Album Review
Though Caution’s members are separated by many States, they’ve produced their first full length album Arcola, packed to the gills with fuzzy distortion and pop chops. The duo touch on their influences of mid-late 80’s noise-pop/shoegaze with a ton of respect while managing to throw in dashes of modern dream-pop.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (April 11th - April 17th)
Caution - "Hand That Looks Like Mine" | Post-Trash Premiere
Following the dreamy disorientation of lead single “Fuck It Up,” the band whip things into a frenzy with “Hand That Looks Like Mine,” a song Langdon wrote about having thoughts of self-distrust, warranted or not, but Button interpreted to be about the act of performing, giving it a duel meaning to go with the band’s shared vocals.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (February 28th - March 13th)
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (August 30th - September 12th)
Caution - "Act Rich" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Each song on Caution hits with memorable hooks and sharp melodic earworms, as evident on early singles “Buy My Life” and “Swallow”. Seven months later and the band remind you to keep listening to their record, over and over again until the song’s sound like second nature (which they will), courtesy of a new video for “Act Rich”.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (February 15th - February 28th)
Caution - "Swallow" | Post-Trash Premiere
Baltimore duo Caution are getting ready to release their self-titled sophomore EP. Due out this coming Friday, February 19th, via the great Born Yesterday Records (Moontype, Dummy, Stuck), the pair have created an album that is pop at its core, but buzzing with fuzz, noise, and psychedelic shoegaze swells.
