Following Ganser’s 2018 debut record, we are pleased to premiere their follow up EP You Must Be New Here.The title for the EP is apt, as the listener moves across the various different versions of what a Ganser song can be. It’s a teaser, giving new listeners a taste in a digestible fifteen minutes.
Boston’s favorite blown out weirdos, Blue Ray, are back at it yet again, set to release, Live Laugh Love, on November 14th via Illegally Blind and Midnight Werewolf. Noted as their final album as a duo, the band’s sound has always been sort of the opposite of high definition, let’s lovingly call it “lo-def,” and they’ve never sounded better.
Following last year’s EXO EP (released via Northern Spy), the band are set to return with a new full length, Heavy Tongue, due out in February via the band’s own Famous Swords. Recorded together with Kevin McMahon at his Marcata Studios, the band continue to warp reality with artistic interpretations of all punk music can be.
Toronto’s Deliluh are getting ready to release their second record of the year, Beneath The Floors, a new full length to accompany this Spring’s Oath Of Intent. Due out November 15th via Telephone Explosion and Tin Angel Records, the art-punk band continue to dig into diamond tough post-punk and exuberant experimentation.
For Brooklyn duo Gorgeous, there are no straight lines on Egg, their debut album, but there’s a whole lot to grasp onto. Due out on November 8th via Sad Cactus Records, Dana Lipperman (guitar/vocals) and Judd Anderman (drums) pound through nine twisting and turning pieces of sweet yet sludgy math-rock.
Following last year’s somber Super Happy, the band return with the equally heartbreaking Finding Peace, Isn’t The Point, due out December 5th via Art of the Uncarved Block. Arriving after a great deal of personal turmoil that included death and depression, the album finds Tang in pursuit of finding beauty in impermanence and sadness.
San Diego duo Blood Ponies are gearing up for the release of their doom-punk debut Hoax. It’s due out 11/15 and the timing of the second single could not be more appropriate. Today we’re happy to premiere the chilling visual accompaniment to the equally unsettling “Submit/Surrender,” a ripping cut filled with white-knuckle melodies.
Recorded during the sessions for the band’s upcoming full length debut but ultimately relegated to a b-side, “People Pleaser” is a big time post-punk corker that recalls early Protomartyr meets Gang of Four. The song opens with Obis and Green locked tightly together in wonky groove just before Walsh’s guitars come spidering in.
Portland’s Lazy Legs are one of those bands who gracefully blend heavy sludge, doom pop, shoegaze, and slowcore to create something sonically immersive and oft-gorgeous. The duo are set to release their sophomore album Moth Mother on November 15th, an excellent record for anyone who misses the dog days of shoegaze.
Pacific Notion, released back in 2017, found Seth Engel reinventing a selection of Options’ songs with a synthetic and electronic beauty, void of his usual rock band formation. Two years later, he’s at it again with Pacific Notion II, a project that finds Engel diving headfirst into the digital world with blissful results.
For Brooklyn’s Franklin Ligh, better known musically as Karaoke Mood Killer, he’s not into Stranger Things and he’d like you to stop trying to change his mind. Set to release (the fittingly titled) Demos on November 8th via Spirit Lust (Should’ve), the eight songs were captured in his Bushwick basement studio on a Tascam digital 8 track.
“You Fall Away” combines two of Henry’s songwriting instincts, the melody-forward songwriting of Bob Pollard/Guided by Voices and the effortless grace of Big Star, into a pitch-perfect rock ballad. Tthe guitars and vocals capture the restless youth of mid-90s, crackling with a coiled energy that erupts in a final-minute solo.
Full Body have never heard of the sophomore slump as evident on their album, Always There. The twisting and turning post-hardcore band have sharpened the edges of their attack, the vicious parts are more vicious and their emo pop influences as sticky sweet as they come. It’s the contusion of them that they’ve been welding together.
Post-Grunge Revival, the trio’s first release since 2017’s Die Alone Pt. 2, is a big step forward sonically, an enormous and primal EP full of buzzing riffs and left-field shifts. Chelsea Ursin's songs come to life with an added heaviness, digging into monstrous riffs with a quirky charm on songs about cow’s giving birth, graceful weirdness, and beyond.
The duo of Greg Jaime (O’Death) and Joey Weiss have been making stunning folk-inspired music for near a decade, creating natural landscapes and lush acoustics with gentle resolve. “Half Crazy” is a gorgeous finger picked and meditative song, brightened with magnificent harmonies and sweeping strings over otherwise dimly lit gothic folk progressions.
