Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (May 8th - May 14th)
Larry June & The Alchemist - "The Great Escape" | Album Review
Larry June’s slick confidence, lifestyle raps, and laidback delivery immediately recall someone like Curren$y; his flows are versatile, fitting smoothly into a song’s pockets like a billiard ball. He also tends to focus more on sweeping portraits than zooming in on a scene. He’s choosy with his smallest details, focusing on flair and personality.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: BRICK HEAD - "Bricks For Brains"
BRICK HEAD is the Melbourne based solo project of Sarah Hardiman, a prolific guitarist/vocalist best known for Deaf Wish, Nightclub, Moon Rituals, and LOU. The production credits, and brief ones at that, are about all we know about Bricks For Brains, that… and the fact that we can’t stop listening to it, which is really all you need to know.
YUNGMORPHEUS - "From Whence It Came" | Album Review
Debbie Dopamine - "Swimming Pool" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
NYC grunge punk power-trio Debbie Dopamine released Pets, a strong EP in the summer of last year, full of noisy and distorted guitars blanketing songs of anxiety. Now they are releasing a video of one of the standout songs "Swimming Pool," reveling in bittersweet and sun-soaked moments of reflection.
Angel Olsen - "Forever Means" | Album Review
For the questions posed in Big Time, Forever Means seeks answers. Less than a year after the release of her acclaimed indie-folk record, Angel Olsen returns with a masterful EP featuring four songs left off of the LP. Though only sixteen minutes in length, Forever Means is nothing short of the journey we expect from a full-length .
Beauty Pill - "Blue Period" | Album Review
Blue Period, the band’s reissue of their output on Dischord, (You Are Right to Be Afraid and The Unsustainable Lifestyle, as well as b-sides and demos), frames ambivalence through their larger journey, suggesting that their early material is made richer and more interesting because of where they’ve gone since.
The Toads - "Ex-KGB" | Post-Trash Premiere
The Toads play a unique brand of jangly post-punk, matching politicized lyrics and social commentary with songs that scrape and groove, twisting themselves in knots amid breezy structures. In The Wilderness is due out June 9th via Anti Fade / Upset The Rhythm Records, a collection of thought provoking and intellectually driven punk.
Es - "Fantasy" | Album Review
Rotary Club - "American Tower" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Hold the phone! In celebration of Rotary Club’s upcoming California trip, the band are sharing a music video for “American Tower,” a raw live clip that features plenty of landline action. The band, adorned in matching jumpsuits, tear into the song accompanied by telephone towers, pay phones, handsets, and delightfully curly phone cords.
Modern Cosmology - "What Will You Grow Now?" | Album Review
Modern Cosmology knows how to have a focused jam. What Will You Grow Now? beautifully synthesizes the DNA of this collective of artists. On one side of the coin, Mombojó creates music in the tradition of Tropicália. On the flip side, Laetitia Sadier brings her unique vocal stylings, patterns, rhythms, and French pop.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (May 1st - May 7th)
Proun - "Form" | Album Review
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: billy woods & Kenny Segal - "Maps"
It seems hard to believe woods had time to reflect upon his life on the road, but it’s clearly been on his mind, as visions of “home” fade and he’s left sleepless on planes, in hotels, and at soundchecks. The grind of it all brought him back to Kenny Segal, the pair resuming their chemistry for Maps, yet another record that feels destined for hip-hop infamy.
Gut Health - "The Recipe" | Post-Trash Premiere
“The Recipe” expands upon their brand of dance-floor chaos with funky bass and psychedelic-tinged punk guitar lines, darting between a no wave attack and post-punk disco. Gut Health remain in astounding form, as they open the song with a relative simplicity and end it tangled in abrasive knots, the entire structure threatening to collapse.
Sun Organ - "Candlelight Showertime" | Album Review
Wristwatch - "Fix" | Post-Trash Premiere
While Wristwatch expanded into a quartet live, the band remains a duo in the studio, with programmed drums that sound damn near human. After sharing album opener “Rules” last month, the band offer another glimpse into the record with “Fix,” a psychedelic punk ripper, full of corrosive leads and harsh frayed melodies.
Cusp - "You Can Do It All" LP | Post-Trash Premiere
Jen Bender's songwriting touches on personal anxieties and questions of over-extending oneself, handled with lovely sentiment and a deft hand. Cusp are unafraid to bring disjointed noise and anger into play, but also show off a softer edge through moments of beautiful keyboard melodies and Bender's vocals that can creep towards higher ranges
