Black Thought & Danger Mouse - "Cheat Codes" | Album Review
Blessed - "Redefine" | Post-Trash Premiere
With the band’s sophomore album, Circuitous, out October 28th via Flemish Eye (Preoccupations, The Besnard Lakes), they’ve once again made another stride forward, embracing hooks that snap into place, fitting unlikely pieces together in a way that’s easily digestible. The album’s second single “Redefine” is a perfect example.
Judy And The Jerks - "Music To Go Nuts" | Album Review
Judy and the Jerks have survived long-distance communication and being in numerous other bands to release their second LP. Despite half of the band moving to Atlanta mere months before COVID hit, they’ve stayed the course with a few tape releases between now and their previous LP release, Friendships Formed in the Pit.
Patti - "The Toothpick 3" | Album Review
Slipping - "So Long" | Post-Trash Premiere
Milkweed - "Myths and Legends of Wales" | Album Review
Young Jesus - "Shepherd Head" | Album Review
The near-28 minute album is the latest in a more maverick, singular-songwriter emphasis. This is not exactly a self-conscious decision or predetermined outcome. It’s just that the 4-piece that refined each other and the improvisational methodology reached a limit, perhaps a temporary one. It’s still one that finds Rossiter solo.
Delivery - "Baader Meinhof" | Post-Trash Premiere
Following last year’s great debut EP and follow-up single, Melbourne quintet Delivery are set to release their full length debut, Forever Giving Handshakes. Due out November 11th via Feel It Records (US), Anti Fade Records and Spoilsport Records, the band take their already buzzing formula and up the ante with their best set of songs yet.
Ismatic Guru - "II" | Album Review
With the generic iPhone alarm at the top of the first track setting the tone, Ismatic Guru’s II is the embodiment of waking up too early and your whole breakfast sticking to the pan. Six minutes of spastic but locked-in grooves with lyrics— when you can process them— that sound a lot like vignettes of drug use but when you look closer, aren’t.
Green/Blue - "Worry / Gimme Hell" | Post-Trash Premiere
Just in case you thought two albums had expended Green/Blue’s recorded output for the year, they return with “Worry / Gimme Hell,” a pair of singles originally recorded during the Paper Thin sessions. Due out digitally today via Feel It Records (with a 7” to follow), the songs strip back the band’s coiled burn for something decidedly more garage.
Built to Spill - "When The Wind Forgets Your Name" | Album Review
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (August 29th - September 11th)
Lincoln - "Repair and Reward" | Album Review
Fluung - "The Vine" | Post-Trash Premiere
USA Nails - "Horror Show" | Post-Trash Premiere
It’s been three decades in the making but Skin Graft Records’ 150th release is upon us. In celebration of no. 150, Skin Graft is set to release, Sounds To Make You Shudder, a Halloween compilation featuring Skin Graft artists past, present, and future, with new music from USA Nail, Yowie + David Yow, Jim O’Rourke, .Shatter On Impact, and more.
Holy Western Parallels - "Holy Western Parallels" | Album Review
Holy Western Parallels' debut album is the brainchild of Chicago's Steve Marek (Monobody), recorded with contributions from his Monobody bandmates and some fantastic vocal talent from Joshua Virtue, Davis Blackwell, NIIKA, and V.V. Lightbody. If you’ve spent any time listening to Monobody, Holy Western Parallels will feel familiar.
The Mall - "Nostalgia" | Post-Trash Premiere
The Mall have amassed themselves an ever growing cult following and it’s easy to see why as they combine punk and dance music in a way that subverts industrial, opting for their own alien hybrid. The group’s sophomore album, Time Vehicle Earth, is due out October 7th via Fixed Grin, with vinyl pre-orders launching this Friday, Sept 9th.
Cinema Hearts - "Your Ideal" | Album Review
You may be familiar with the idealized femininity from the prom queen aesthetics of Pom Pom Squad. It works as a visual extension of the sequined surf rock guitars and girl group harmonies of Cinema Hearts’ new Bartees Strange-produced EP, Your Ideal, but for Weinroth it stems from her experience as the winner of Miss Mountain Laurel.
