by Dan Goldin (@paintingwithdan) and Pat Pilch (@apg_gomets)
Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, our 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. It's generally written in the late hours of the night and semi-unedited... but full of love and heart. The list is in alphabetical order and we sincerely recommend checking it all out. There's a lot of great new music being released. Support the bands you love. Spread the word and buy some new music.
gobbinjr
“stars implode”
gobbinjr’s songs feel lived in, from the inescapable grooves to the appropriately dazzling production, there’s a sense of comfort. Perhaps crystal rabbit moon should feel lived in as an album eight years in the making, but if patience is the key, then patience truly is a virtue. “stars implode,” the record’s second single, opens with the soft touch of sustained synths, keys, and a really gluey rhythm highlighted by Emma Witmer’s exceptional bass progression. Just as you feel inclined to sink into the song, gobbinjr start shifting things around, dropping out elements as others arise, the entire framework remains in tact but the details fade and reappear in new shapes. With distortion and samples that last a matter of seconds before receding and a drawn out tranquility, the path weaves ever so briefly into fuzzy punk territory, bashing it out for a fractured moment before snaking back into surrealist pop at its catchiest. - DG
GUN OUTFIT
“Unfelt Loss”
Los Angeles’ Gun Outfit are back in a big way! Nine years after their last full length (and five years after the Ciao collection), the quintet are set to release Process and Reality, a brand new double album due out May 8th via Upset The Rhythm (Season 2, Dog Chocolate, EarthBall). Recorded back in 2020 on a remote California ranch (during wildfires no less), there’s a rambling energy to lead single “Unfelt Loss,” a song that channels the band’s intricate yet calming blend of folk rock and post-punk dexterity with dusty psych textures that feel like tumbleweed rolling past. There’s an ease in the structure, a warmth in their layered harmonies. With a warble that should spell unease, the band really come bristling from one serene moment to the next while retaining a tightly coiled structure that keeps the tension just beneath the surface. - DG
MOLINA
“Golden Brown Sugar”
Copenhagen-based Molina runs the dream pop gamut. The Danish-Chilean artist explores abstruse art rock, hazy shoegaze, and melodic alt rock through a focused hypnagogic lens. A fixture of the “slightly esoteric singer songwriters from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden” movement, Molina’s “Golden Brown Sugar” is her most representative offering of the contemporary Copenhagen sound by way of classic shoegaze. If Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine unfolded to reveal their sugar-sweet center, you’d find the crucial pop elements of Molina’s latest. - PP
RANSOM, BOLDY JAMES, & NICHOLAS CRAVEN
“Salvation For The Wicked” EP
Ransom and Boldy James are two of modern hip-hop’s finest lyricists, both painting sharp and vivid portraits of the streets and the hustle that has shaped their worlds, and yet there’s a discernible difference to their styles. Ransom deals with dirt in poetic cadences, reflecting but not necessarily glorifying the drug game while Boldy’s endless bars draw with attention to detail, an encyclopedia of hood tales and dangerous lifestyles. Salvation for the Wicked, produced in full by Nicholas Craven (who has collaborated extensively with both artists), really brings out the best in both Ransom and Boldy James, as the MCs seem to energize one another with conceptual lyrics and verse-trading interplay. While Craven has earned a reputation for “drumless” beats (outside of those embedded in his samples), this record absolutely knocks from the speakers with dusty boom-bap glory - hard beats for harder rhymes. - DG
WHITE FENCE
“Your Eyes”
Tim Presley has returned once more to White Fence, the glorious psych folk project that started nearly two decades ago. Seven years have passed since the release of I Have To Feed Larry’s Hawk (billed as Tim Presley’s White Fence) but there’s no sign of rust from the once prolific musician on “Your Eyes,'“ the gorgeous first single from his upcoming album, Orange. Due out April 24th via Drag City Records (Ty Segall, Jim White, Glyders), the song finds the Los Angeles based songwriter in peak form, equal parts jangle and splattered 60’s tinged pop, glowing with a hypnotic resonance and melodic splendor. Produced by frequent collaborator Ty Segall, there’s a soft breeze at the center of Presley’s swooning garage pop charm that feels momentous as acoustics pair together with spacious chord progressions and stuttering drums that pull us deeper into the melodic glue. - DG
youbet
“Ground Kiss”
youbet’s upcoming self titled album really flips the script on all that’s come before it from the Brooklyn based band. Due out May 1st via Hardly Art (Chris Cohen, Lala Lala, Shana Cleveland), the record finds Nick Llobet expanding the scope of their beautifully bent indie rock together with Micah Prussack, each offering their own unique perspectives on what happens next. Llobet is a phenomenal guitarist, constantly reshaping progressions with great taste and unexpected turns and the new album really embraces that sense of adventure. Lead single “Ground Kiss” is warped and bubbling, fuzzy yet radiant, crackling with sonic decay and bright melodies. With flashes of country twang and noise pop in equal measure, it’s a subversion of stagnant alternative rock pastiches, captured in itchy distortion and subtle hooks that feel enormous in hindsight. - DG
Further Listening:
ADRIAN YOUNGE “Portschute” | ANNA CALVI “God’s Lonely Man” (feat. Iggy Pop) | CASHIER “Part From Me” | CROSS “Begging The Sword / Falsified” | CURREN$Y, LARRY JUNE, & THE ALCHEMIST “Everything Allocated” | DOG CHOCOLATE “Infinite Nuggets” | DRAÜMAR “Blodigler” | DUST STAR “Saturday Night” | EKKO ASTRAL “Lil Xan Goes To Washington” | ELUCID & SEBB BASH “Make Me Wise” | EXHUMED “The Iron Graveyard” | FROZEN SOUL “Absolute Zero” | HANNAH LEW “Sunday” | IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS “Don’t Lose Your Head” (feat. MOTHERBOARD) | JAE SKEESE & ILL TONE BEATS “S.W.G.M.” | KILLING PACE "War Machine" (feat. Antichrist Siege Machine) | KIM GORDON “Dirty Tech” | LIQUIDS “January 2026” LP | LOST BOY ? “C’mon Baby (Just Let Me Die)” | MELVINS & NAPALM DEATH “Tossing Coins Into The Fountain of Fuck” | MORGAN NAGLER “Heartbreak City” | MRS. MAGICIAN “High Definition” | NIGHT MOTH “Blood Ties” | THE NOTWIST “Projectors” | OTOBO “Trapt / WYBM” | PIPPY “Angelina” | POPE “Newboi” | POWERPLANT “The Fork” | PRIVATE LIVES “Think I’m Coming Around” | ROBBER ROBBER “Watch For Infection” | SCOUT GILLETT “Coney Island” | SPACE MOUNTAIN “Purity of Heart” (Krill cover) | STEREOLAB “Cloud Land / Flashes In The Afternoon” | TOUCH GIRL APPLE BLOSSOM “The Springtime Reminds Me Of…” | TWICE EYES “Light Hearted” | VIPERS “Vipers” EP | YURI MEMBER “The Sea Side, The City Side” LP