Bar Italia - "Tracey Denim" | Album Review
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: GracieHorse - "L.A. Shit"
Gracie Jackson’s journeyed voice reflects the years of entropy and moil but spins that into songs of self-determination, confidence, and humor. Whether eating fried chicken in a hazmat suit, breaking up fights, or dancing with a stranger in a white stetson, her narrative lyrics are almost cinematic in their oddly specific detail.
Mo Dotti - "Ever" | Post-Trash Premiere
Mo Dotti’s first release since last year’s Guided Imagery comes as part of Stories, a compilation of all-new music from Los Angeles-based queer and PoC artists. As the name implies, Stories aims to compile the “stories we tell and the story we tell when we tell them together” and highlight marginalized voices.
Silver Car Crash - "Sun Dried Tomatoes" | Post-Trash Premiere
On their forthcoming Crafted Sounds / Michi Tapes LP, Shattered Shine, the maturing quartet grapples with climate doom, political apathy, and the growing pains every late twenty-something must endure. Silver Car Crash dances about, no answers to their grand questions in sight, but enjoying the journey as much as anyone can.
Lisa/Liza - "Breaking and Mending" | Album Review
Oh No & Roy Ayers - "Good Vibes / Bad Vibes" | Album Review
CS Cleaners - "Wash Me" | Post-Trash Premiere
Sluice - "Radial Gate" | Album Review
The Stools - "Stare Scared" | Post-Trash Premiere
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.