Pearl & The Oysters - "Coast 2 Coast" | Album Review
Maximalist and controlled, Pearl & The Oysters have created a fully formed concept and sense of self. Far from Brave New World, this album quite nearly suggests there is no dystopia (or utopia) in the human being-toward-technology. It just is and the party is happening no matter what. You can love this fate and join in the dance.
FACS - "Still Life In Decay" | Album Review
PACKS - "Crispy Crunchy Nothing" | Album Review
Crispy Crunchy Nothing is the latest album from PACKS, the nom de guitare of Toronto DIY rocker Madeline Link. The fourteen song, thirty minute LP is clearly indebted to the larger ‘90s alt/indie rock movement, but it celebrates that lineage with a renewed sense of passion, efficiency, and inventiveness.
Deerhoof - "Miracle-Level" | Album Review
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Poison Ruïn - "Härvest"
Härvest, Poison Ruïn’s second album overall (depending how you look at it) and first record together with their new label, retains the band’s flair for the medieval, distilled in the toil and struggle of the era’s poor and working class, a sentiment that hasn’t changed all that much in modern times.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (April 10th - April 16th)
Yours Are The Only Ears - "We Know The Sky" | Album Review
We Know the Sky, the sophomore full length album from Yours Are the Only Ears (aka Susannah Cutler), provides the listener with heartfelt melodies and intensity, manifesting itself through nature and vivid imagery. Cutler's songs are full of spirit and tender ruminations on the travails of love and the ever changing world around us.
Beige Palace - "Waterloo Sublet (Live at Hohm)" | Post-Trash Premiere
Last Friday saw the triumphant return of Leeds based trio Beige Palace, the band joining together with London’ Cassels for a new split 7”. Out via Human Worth and God Unknown Records, “Waterloo Sublet” breaks a four year absence for Beige Palace, their first new music since the gloriously unnerving Leg LP.
Life In Vacuum - "Lost" | Album Review
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.