Motherhood - "Thunder Perfect Mind" | Album Review
Thunder Perfect Mind is a loose concept album narrating the sudden abduction of an unsuspecting pedestrian by a dark, expanding cloud. A lesser band would use this conceit as mere metaphor, but Motherhood is fully committed to the bit, creating a lyrical and sonic soundscape that feels as disorienting and exhilarating as a genuine alien encounter.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (February 3rd - February 9th)
Squid - "Cowards" | Album Review
While Cowards is inspired by the grotesque literature of Haruki Murakami and Ottessa Moshfegh, it's also a clear response to a world in flames. With its charging rhythms and gorgeous melodies, it appears as the band's most impassioned work yet. A demand rather than a cry for its listeners to attempt to defeat their cowardice, and to not ignore the evil in their own lives lest they become it.
Television Personalities - "Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out: The Radio Sessions 1980-1993" | Album Review
This Television Personalities collection of radio performances has a handful of wonderful and deranged nuggets that show the gifts Treacy and the band possessed even through their roughest personal and professional moments. Television Personalities were a band that should have been more recognized for their impact as their colorful songs laid the foundations for many more recognizable successors.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (January 27th - February 2nd)
Kenny Segal & K-the-I??? "Genuine Dexterity" | Album Review
Genuine Dexterity is a release that might have lit the scene on fire and cemented itself as a collaboration arguably more important and revelatory than the others which raised Segal’s profile in years prior. Every song has an earnestly elliptical understanding of hip hop as a sonic and social force in a way few artists in the genre do today.
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La Sécurité - "Ketchup" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (January 20th - January 26th)
Kassie Krut - "Kassie Krut" | Album Review
Queen Serene - "In a Rut (I'm Stuck)" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Following the album’s release and a split 7” with Heavy Meddo, Queen Serene are sharing the Taylor Browne directed video for “In a Rut (I’m Stuck)”. Browne brings a brilliant mix of stop-motion claymation and a acidic charm to the natural world as good and evil forces battle it out under waves of psychedelic chaos.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (January 13th - January 19th)
Bill Callahan - "The Holy Grail: Bill Callahan's "Smog" Dec. 10, 2001 Peel Session" | Album Review
The Holy Grail: Bill Callahan’s “Smog” Dec. 10, 2001 Peel Session is a modest effort that nonetheless has much to say about both Callahan’s evolution and his consistency. This EP doesn’t rewrite history exactly, but it is revelatory about the contingent steps taken by him as an artist, more apparent in retrospect, thus amounting to a kind of rosebud explaining the move from one chapter to the next.
variety - Subtropical | Album Review
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (January 6th - January 12th)
Greg Freeman - "I Looked Out" (Reissue) | Album Review
When Burlington singer-songwriter Greg Freeman quietly dropped I Looked Out, his first record released under his own name, there was little fanfare. Looking back at it two years later, with this new vinyl reissue and a follow-up record seemingly imminent, it stands as a showcase of an exciting songwriter who came out of the gate with a fully realized musical vision and unique lyrical style, and nowhere to go but up.
