In the two years since Austin’s Spray Paint released their last album, the band members have stayed busy releasing others projects that include the great Spiritual Mafia and During. You can now add Rider/Horse to the list, the latest effort from Spray Paint’s Cory Plump together with Chris Turco (Les Savy Fav, Trans Am).
Following the release of their EP, Toronto trio Motorists are ready to release their full length debut, Surrounded, due out September 3rd via Bobo Integral, We Are Time, and Debt Offensive Records. Continuing down the path that their EP set upon, the band continue refine their blend of jangle pop, motorik rhythms, and power-pop sheen
Don’t Know What I Am, the band’s latest LP, is another perfect name. The record holds Sonia Weber’s established perspective throughout, affirming the confession of the title; but in a testament to the love we receive from others, it embraces gratitude and sunshine in ways that lead to the band’s strongest proclamation yet.
Here come Rose, Water, Fountain, somewhere from the outskirts of Boston to actually hit that nineties indie rock sound right on the nail's head, and not only that. The duo somehow make sure that it perfectly fits into all that is going on now in music, as if Olivia Tremor Control or Dressy Bessy never went away.
Due out via Super Wimpy Punch Records, the band have paired down to a power trio, with Seth Goldman handling both guitars and bass, in addition to the vocals. Recorded with Adam Reich and Nick Dooley, they bring out the best in the twin guitars of Goldman and Jay Fox, distorted fuzz riffs occupying a perfect sonic space.
Celestial Force, the sixth album under the Space Mountain moniker, finds Kinsler collaborating with Will Henriksen and Rachel Saltzman, lending violin and saxophone, respectively. Due out September 17th via Dust Etc label, there’s a wide expanse to the twang and rust of the songs, portraits of vast landscapes with a certain sense of stillness.
Their fifth release (and fourth from Relapse Records), Arrows, finally sees the group match their colorful personality with a bright, psychedelic aesthetic. Chugging tracks like “Unreal Estate” and “Anodyne” will please the old fist-pumping fans, and the punk-adjacent “My Disaster” and “Rabbits in Hives” show they can still kick it into high gear.
THE FVCKHEAѫTED LVNG is the latest full-length studio album from Sunk Heaven. Standing at around 38 minutes, this release breezes by considering how layered and intricate it feels. Pulling from industrial, no-wave, and even occasionally IDM and harsh noise, this release never stays in the corner of one particular sub-genre.
The outrageously named Fashion Pimps and the Glamazons are digging deep into the punk sludge on their debut album, Jazz 4 Johnny. Due out August 20th via Feel It Records, the Cleveland based band (mems of The Cowboy, Cloud Nothings, Donkey Bugs) make punk at its most sordid, with elements of no-wave and noise rock in the mix.
It’s been three years since Astral Swans’ last full length, Strange Prison, but today the project has announced a new self-titled album, due out October 8th via Victory Pool Records, an album said to be written in Swann’s head while taking walks around various cities (pre-pandemic) and then the same city (during the pandemic).
Perfect Angels is Zach Phillips on any instrument you can think of together with a lead singer Olia Eichenbaum, as well as a cast of revolving collaborators. Musically, the project creates exquisite off-kilter soft pop, with bossa nova as some sort of a base, with Phillips, Eichenbaum and their cohorts going off in every direction.
Sweet Williams is the brainchild of Brighton’s Thomas House, a veteran of the DIY music scene and a musician whose drive to create is seemingly limitless. Post-Trash’s Dominic Acito connected with House via Zoom to discuss his writing process, the DIY scene in Spain, and his first experiences learning an instrument.
Valdez, the most recent release by Philadelphia's psychedelic rock masters/champions Birds Of Maya, represents the shared momentary humanistic expressions of creative freedom aesthetic to absolute perfection; an exiled memory in the apocalyptic nightmare - one which has the ability to awaken a drifting consciousness from its haze.
The past few years has seen Upset The Rhythm reissuing both of Normil Hawaiians’ classic albums as well as their “lost” record, Return of the Ranters. After a short pause, the reissues continue with Dark World, a new collection of the band’s earliest recordings from 1979 to 1981, comprised of their rawest pre-More Wealth Than Money output.
