Strangelight have their own lineage worth noting, featuring members of sludge stalwarts Kowloon Walled City and Transistor Transistor. They’ve come together and are ready to knock down doors with their enormous sound, built on Hot Snakes fueled punk and adrenaline, stomping and thrashing one moment, dense and thudding the next.
Heir Traffic’s double single “The Roman Road / The Bellows” continues the Melbourne band’s dip into discordant post-punk. Recorded in Frankston by keyboardist Joe Nurrish, the singles strive to encapsulate their live performances - Mitchell spitting his poetic rambles, ever complimented by a barrage of drums and guitar.
The record is an extremely well polished transformation for the band. It is a power house of hooky guitar melodies and bright 80s synth sounds, rounded out perfectly with the definitive baritone of Canning. They also seamlessly incorporate brass instrumentation on the album, harkening back to their Australian predecessors, INXS.
Along with its catchy classic rock melodies, the sophomore record from Slight Of - the project of New York indie rocker Jim Hill - sets itself apart in its outward-looking stance. That said, Other People’s lyrics may be character-driven, but what makes it such an interesting study isn’t necessarily the subjects.
MEH, the fantastic lo-fi fuzz pop band comprised of members of Nopes, are getting ready to release their latest, Big Soft. Due out October 2nd via Chicago’s Maximum Pelt, it’s another warm and welcoming record of warbling tunes and folk inspired slacker rock, built on the gentle moments but still pushing into the red every now and then.
Sometimes everything you need is within sight. Sometimes the best decisions are the ones that come without overthinking. Both of the sentiments rings true on Tang’s upcoming album The Quiet Earth. Due September 29th, the collection finds Peter Connelly once again taking a solo approach to his band, and they’ve never sounded better.
Hannah Read is not interested in diaristic revelations, even as she embraces Hannah over Lomelda. Many of the best records find a way to show rather than tell, but Hannah finds a way to feel without explanation and in turn, pass that feeling onto us, in all its disjointed, nonsensical, and wonderful complexities, as revelatory as you can get.
