On Picnic in the Dark, Zeiguer does not hesitate to whisk her listener away to a lush, reverberant world of her own design. By blending contemporary indie pop’s structures with vintage drum machines, old Hollywood strings, and dalliances into bossa nova territory, Zeiguer’s become the architect of her own memories.
Mother is The Milky Way is not quite a collection of songs and not quite a soundtrack. Rather, it is a twenty-minute meditative experience in an unambiguously Broadcastian space, with equal parts journey through pastoral psychedelic meadows and whiplash-inducing descent into some of the darkest spaces the band has dared to curate.
Palm Friends’ music has an easy sound to the ear, with each song stepping into another direction, while keeping it recognizable. It’s a hard thing to do across two or three separate releases, let alone within a single EP. Yet, that is exactly what the Minneapolis quartet have done on The Delivery, their latest record.
Holy Body Roll is a groove-filled guidebook for healing, the soundtrack to help you move from tear-streaming breakdown to full-body boogie. The first collaborative album from Michigan multi-instrumentalist/producer The Lasso and New Mexico-based vocalist/emcee A. Billi Free is a quest for self-realization and self-preservation.
Hailing from Adelaide, Twine are set to release their second single, “Same Old Problems” on April 1st, a song that’s built on tension. The band’s sound is best described as a mix of emotional post-hardcore and atmospheric arrangements, bringing to mind a place somewhere between We Were Promised Jetpacks and Dirty Three.
New Brunswick’s Motherhood are back. The Canadian outfit’s just-announced Winded follows up 2019’s Post Trash-approved Dear Bongo. Today, we’re excited to premiere the video for “Ripped Sheet,” the upcoming record’s most clear cut punk number that follows lyricist Brydon Crain’s progression toward sobriety, happiness and “dry land.”
The tape features reworkings of hit bedbug tracks spanning six years that make the most of classic four-piece rock band instrumentation. While the halcyon bedroom pop days of multi-tracked guitars and fuzzy synths may be behind the project, there is no need to mourn; bedbug’s singular approach to diaristic songwriting suits indie rock well.
With the band set to hit the road next month together with Protomartyr, seems the time is right for a new record, which brings us to Cheap Things. Due out April 8th, the album was written years ago while on tour in the US, but due to moves across Ireland and life getting the way, Niall Murphy and co. never released the record… until now.
With four singles out in the world already, from the haunting “Core” and the breezy “Fool,” to the acoustic sweetness of “Maya” and the emotional heft of “Leo,” the album makes a great case for sonic diversity and the fragility of life, but perhaps all the album’s themes are best captured on the record’s title track, “I Saw The Egg”.
Process, the latest from Pinch Points, shows the band have a caustic take on the modern world and its many ongoing societal issues. The band’s sound has become a little more developed and although there is a strain of anxiety and anger that runs through everything here, there is also an excitement that is equally pervasive.
