ALBUM OF THE WEEK: SPLLIT - "Infinite Hatch"
Infinite Hatch opens up a new realm in SPLLIT’s expanding galactic journey. The Baton Rouge duo dive into the deep end on their second full length, and they’ve created a masterpiece in the process. From songs that sound like bugged out pinball games to laser driven art punk odysseys, the layered eccentricities are tight yet discombobulated.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (October 16th - October 29th)
Zowy - "Beware Magical Thinking" | Post-Trash Premiere
Zoë Wyner has been busy writing for Zowy, a new solo project. Taking shape over the past year, Beware Magical Thinking is the first release under the new moniker, due out January 12th via Lost Sound Tapes. The project finds Wyner handling all the instrumentation, with a vision that feels beautifully nuanced.
Cherry Glazerr - "I Don't Want You Anymore" | Album Review
Over the past ten years, Cherry Glazerr has transitioned through many sounds, aesthetics, textures, and feelings. On their most recent offering, I Don’t Want You Anymore, they enter the realms of sugary indie rock, fuzzy garage rock, and shimmery electro pop, all with a distinctively femme underpinning.
Queen Serene - "Queen Serene" LP | Post-Trash Premiere
Throughout their debut album, Queen Serene sound fully realized, dipping between dream pop, post-punk, krautrock, shoegaze, and fuzzy indie rippers, each song offering something new. There’s cohesion in spades, but the self-titled record feels like an unraveling of ideas, expanding as it plays, providing a welcome sense of dynamics.
I'm Into Life Records - "#1" | Album Review
What is experimental rock, anyways? I’m Into Life Records, the LA/Kingston based label, is hunting for an answer, exploring every -wave and no-wave at the same time, building community along the way. With every artist that stretches their limits, we’re closer to finding out. #1 is the cumulation of East Coast Weird contemporaries.
See Jazz - "1982" | Post-Trash Premiere
See Jazz is decidedly not jazz, but reality does feel augmented throughout Is This Anything?, the debut album from Aaron Pfannebecker’s solo project. With a sound rooted in bedroom pop, See Jazz is wandering beyond the walls of confessional and dreary pop to create lo-fi music with a sense of adventure.
Allegra Krieger - "Fragile Plane: B-Sides" | Album Review
Following I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane, NYC based singer-songwriter Allegra Krieger returns with Fragile Plane: B-Sides, the extension to an album that was fortified in personal silence and atypical orchestration. Krieger expands on her poetic observations of humanity's shortcomings, told through her formidable presence in a passing world.
Peopling - "gEneRaTOr bOys" | Post-Trash Premiere
Great Falls - "Objects Without Pain" | Album Review
Objects Without Pain is a trick mirror in its aural attack on convention, appearing both flawed and flawless. Dissonant chords make songs sound out-of-tune, song structures writhe like trapped reptiles, vocals scream at the unhinged limit of the human larynx. Listening to the album is akin to watching trains collide in slow motion.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: MIKE - "Burning Desire"
Katie Von Schleicher - "A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night" | Album Review
With her new record, Katie Von Schleicher's songs take a softer approach, full of luscious keyboards and a renewed comfort in the stripped down arrangements, punctuated with thoughtful strings by frequent collaborator Gabriel Birnbaum. Von Schleicher is in a reflective mood, touching on personal growth and strengths.
Lync - "These Are Not Fall Colors" (Reissue) | Album Review
These Are Not Fall Colors lets its emotional power do a lot of the heavy lifting. Sam Jayne's songwriting is vague and occasionally impenetrable, but the execution is energizing and intense. He may have had a bit more success with Love as Laughter, but Lync brought together seemingly odd influences, pushing them in unexpected directions.
Flower Festival - "Stolen" (feat. Nicholas Krgovich) | Post-Trash Premiere
Age, out January 26th via Moone Records and Anxiety Blanket Records, is an album transfixed on life’s changes, a farewell to the one’s past self and an appraisal of where life’s lemons have left him. While the path of his life is obviously deeply personal, Dailey isn’t alone throughout the record, bringing some stalwart musicians along for the journey..
DJ Muggs - "Soul Assassins 3: Death Valley" | Album Review
The hottest, driest place in America is a fitting reference point for prolific LA beatmaker DJ Muggs — whose trademark production is frequently dust-filled and eerie, with little room for frills. That approach is on display throughout Soul Assassins 3: Death Valley, a new installment in his decades-long series of region-hopping rap showcases.
Tim Kinsella & Jenny Pulse - "Giddy Skelter" | Album Review
SPLLIT - "Bevy Slew" | Post-Trash Premiere
Infinite Hatch is a major statement of a record, the duo of Marance and Urq showing incredible growth while remaining true to their sound and vision. One of the year’s more exciting albums, each song a piece of the greater whole, capturing the band’s acidic knack for unlikely melodies together with their immaculate sense of personality.
