Vincent Reese - "Running Wild" | Post-Trash Premiere
With his debut album Embarrassingly Hard due out April 20th via Tallahassee’s RIP Records, we meet Vincent Reese aka “Vicious Vinnie,” a project that’s as much sketch show as it is punk band. Drawing influences from Beastie Boys, Le Tigre, and Viagra Boys, there’s a sordid comedic sense to his stoned brand of anything goes charm.
Black Thumb - "Walk On By" | Track Review
Jana Horn - "The Window Is The Dream" | Album Review
Musically, The Window is the Dream, is a tightly woven textile, with minute intricacies. Vibraphone, bass, guitars, and synthesizers all cooperate or battle with Jana Horn’s voice to illuminate her images via purposeful poetry. The phrasing and delivery of the lyrics is laconic; her poetry is delivered as such. It is magical, uncompromising.
Radiator Hospital - "Yr Head" | Post-Trash Premiere
Can’t Make Any Promises is Radiator Hospital’s first new record in four years. Their fifth album for Salinas Records (Quaker Wedding, Freezing Cold, Vacation) comes exactly twenty years to the day of the label’s first release, and if that ain’t reason to celebrate, the music is. Recorded in their Philly practice space, they’ve never sounded better.
Wednesday - "Rat Saw God" | Album Review
Ruah - "Synthesized Skies" | Post-Trash Premiere
Following a string of singles and EPs, Philadelphia’s Ruah are set to release Ruwa, the project’s brooding full length debut. “Synthesized Skies” is the record’s second single (following “Guidance”), a song that slinks and crawls along a creaky bed of analog carnage, grinding bass, and atmosphere so thick it threatens to strangle it all.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (April 3rd - April 9th)
Gee Tee - "Goodnight Neanderthal" | Album Review
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Meyhem Lauren, DJ Muggs, & Madlib - "Champagne For Breakfast"
While Meyhem Lauren will forever represent Queens, Champagne For Breakfast, comes as a historical West Coast moment, the first collaboration between Madlib and DJ Muggs. A meeting of undeniable giants, the legendary producers work in unison together to design the wavy elegance and the minimalist psych-laced blueprint.
Whitney's Playland - "Sunset Sea Breeze" | Album Review
Whitney’s Playland describe their music as exploring the “usual things in life: love and loss,” adding that these explorations occasionally have a satirical tinge to them. While the descriptor is accurate, the way in which they approach these reflections on Sunset Sea Breeze is more clever than their Bandcamp copy gives them credit for.
Sleep Sinatra - "Intuitive" | Track Review
Sleep Sinatra’s work is fascinating, full of precision cut lyrics that present the grimy and philosophical in equal measure. “Intuition,” the single from Shadowself, a full-length, Carl Jung-inspired collaboration with Richmond beat shaman Ohbliv, beautifully illustrates his particular set of skills.
Tetchy - "Smaller / Better" | Album Review
Dr Sure's Unusual Practice - "Low On Time" | Post-Trash Premiere
While the project’s last full length, Remember The Future? Vol. 2 & 1, was full of futuristic sheen, there’s something special about their upcoming “mixtape” BUBBLE, due out April 14th via Marthouse Records (Gut Health, Bench Press, Heir Traffic). Recorded solo by Dougal Shaw, the record leans on programmed drums and heavy synths.
Cheekface - "Don't Ask (B-Sides)" | Album Review
Too Much To Ask, which packed with the trademarked “talk-singing” of the band, as well as incredibly danceable beats and fun instrumental breakdowns, turned out to have a few b-sides that didn’t make the cut of the final album. Don’t Ask (b-sides) is just the extra dose of Cheekface fun that any indie rock, power-pop punk fan will enjoy.
Ryan Wong - "Yo Yo" | Post-Trash Premiere
The New Country Sounds of Ryan Wong really says it all with the title. Best known for Cool Ghouls and Supreme Joy, Wong has carved a niche in the world of garage psych, flipping between twang and fuzz. With his second solo effort, he’s embraced that twang and filtered out most everything else, opting for earnest DIY country tunes.
Bruiser and Bicycle Discuss New Album "Holy Red Wagon" | Feature Interview
Dougie Poole - "The Rainbow Wheel of Death" | Album Review
Recorded live in five days amidst beer and BBQ (according to the liner notes), the songs and characters populating Poole’s latest are full, well-thought and well-executed. His voice sounds better than ever, and though much of the psych tinge of his previous work is gone, he finds himself grounded in a fresh spin on classic Americana.
