by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)

Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, our weekly recap of this week's new music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web. It's generally written in the early hours of the morning and semi-unedited... but full of love and heart. The list is in alphabetical order and we sincerely recommend checking out all the music we've included. There's a lot of great new music being released. Support the bands you love. Spread the word and buy some new music.

*Disclaimer: We are making a conscious effort not to include any artist in our countdown on back-to-back weeks in order to diversify the feature, so be sure to check the "further listening" as well because it's often of top-notch quality too.

DISCO DOOM + ORUÃ | “Esmeralda Destiny Analysis”

It has been six long (long, long, long) years since Disco Doom released the incredible Numerals LP and while the band’s core duo has gifted the world J&L Defer since, we’ve been patiently awaiting the return of Zurich’s finest. This week the band teamed up with Rio de Janeiro’s Oruã for a digital split, a match made in heaven with both bands using the chance to explore rarely travelled sonic territory. Disco Doom’s contribution, “Kollaps Korrekt,” is a massive blast of wonderment, pairing together elements of dreamy fuzz and analog warble with sleazy garage rock a la Royal Trux, and plenty of abrasive noise, all patch-worked together. There’s an understated brilliance to it (as with everything Disco Doom does) that makes you want to listen on repeat, dissecting every section and it’s colossal construction. Oruã’s track, “Diamante Nasce,” takes expansion in a different direction, instead sprawling out with a cool, fuzzy, back-masked, krautrock landscape. It’s fried and mellow, wavering in the melting summer sun, and beaming with mesmerizing tonality. Their sound definitely shares elements from the Disco Doom catalog, and it’s easy to hear why the two bands hit it off so well.

MISTER GOBLIN | “I Used To Play In A Punk Band” EP

Following hot on the heels of Mister Goblin’s exceptional Is Path Warm? album, the project returns with the short, sweet, and essential, I Used To Play In A Punk Band EP. The collaborative solo project of Sam Goblin (Two Inch Astronaut) has become a showcase for his songwriting capabilities and his ability to effortlessly combine elements of swooning pop, post-hardcore, and earnest singer-songwriter tropes, bending everything to his whim. This EP features band members old and new (Two Inch’s Matt Gatwood, Mister Goblin’s live members Leah Gage and Kjell Hansen), offering added support to a cliff’s notes glimpse into the many facets of Goblin’s songs. From the energetic “Punk Band” and it’s look into the not so great and not so welcoming time spent playing punk as a teenager, to the bubbling emotive escape of “The Only Thing” and the explored themes of aging and deterioration on “Senescence,” it’s clear this isn’t an EP built on youthfulness, but more a reflection of what was and what comes next.

OCEANATOR | “I Would Find You”

Following the announcement of Oceanator’s new album, Things I Never Said, and it’s first single “A Crack In The World,” the band are sharing the record’s second offering, the anthemic “I Would Find You.” The track is big and cinematic, the type that feels like it should be playing during some heart-wrenching climax of early 90’s film. The wide screen appeal of it all doesn’t come with cheesy grandiose heroics however. Instead Elise Okusami and co. play it with a calm resolve and a sense of patience. There’s a steady pulse and a synth line that resides on the border of haunting post-punk and 80’s new wave, offering a hint of brightness in a song that otherwise deals with a strength in the end times. As always, it’s Okusami’s voice and lyrics that steal the show, her confidence as radiant as they come as she triumphantly sings “if the world fell apart tomorrow, i would find you, i would come for you.”

ODDISEE | “Odd Cure” LP

Brooklyn via Maryland/DC’s Oddisee has delivered consistently as both a conscious thinking MC and a great producer since his earliest efforts, bridging his discography with poetic lyricism and instrumental work. While generally prolific, its been three years since The Iceberg and his excellent live album, Beneath The Surface, together with his live band Good Compny. Oddisee returns with “Odd Cure,” a record that doesn’t come out of great circumstances, but refreshing and renewed regardless. Carrying themes of quarantine, songs are interspersed with calls to family and friends, checking in on loved ones. On the album’s songs, Oddisee goes in over jazzy beats and atmospheric rhythms that dip into Curtis Mayfield inspired soul (“The Cure”), space aged boom-bap (“Shoot Your Shot”), and syrupy slow jams (“Still Strange”). He remains one of the premiere forward thinking MCs, his lyrics searching for placement in these strange times, with a thoughtful examination of self, society, and truth in an industry that isn’t built on it.

SHE KEEPS BEES | “Star Stone Skin” (feat. Tim Carr)

The folks at Future Gods Records have launched Future Unknown, an ongoing remote collaboration between musicians and visual artists with all proceeds being donated to charity. The first in the series comes from site favorites and Future Gods alumni She Keeps Bees, paired together with Tim Carr for the stunning “Star Stone Skin.” The collaboration finds both in their comfort zone, an effortless pairing that only strengthens the song and never pulls at the seams. With She Keeps Bees’ tone and raw hewn soul in tact, Carr serves as the utility player, tastefully adding vocal harmonies, guitar, bass, violin, and percussion to support the structure, yet careful never to topple the framework. Jessica Larrabee’s voice is as beautiful and impactful as ever as she intones about nature and its guidance to restoration for the world. Larrabee sings “chaos harmonized, jungle becomes a choir, bring our voice to the choir, star, skin, stone, scale, feather all one” with a heartfelt vision of cosmic replenishment.

Further Listening:

Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (July 13th - July 19th)