Doug Martsch of Built to Spill on the Pros and Cons of Recording Alone | Feature Interview
Tan Cologne - "Earth Visions of Water Spaces" | Album Review
Earth Visions Of Water Spaces is grounded in an elemental ethos while retaining the band’s likeness for entertaining celestial questions. As on their previous showing, they again display a knack for transforming simple phrases into hypnotic mantras and restrained instrumental passages into tempered progressions of mystifying proportion.
Staffers - "Love You More" | Post-Trash Premiere
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (September 12th - September 18th)
Black Thought & Danger Mouse - "Cheat Codes" | Album Review
Blessed - "Redefine" | Post-Trash Premiere
With the band’s sophomore album, Circuitous, out October 28th via Flemish Eye (Preoccupations, The Besnard Lakes), they’ve once again made another stride forward, embracing hooks that snap into place, fitting unlikely pieces together in a way that’s easily digestible. The album’s second single “Redefine” is a perfect example.
Judy And The Jerks - "Music To Go Nuts" | Album Review
Judy and the Jerks have survived long-distance communication and being in numerous other bands to release their second LP. Despite half of the band moving to Atlanta mere months before COVID hit, they’ve stayed the course with a few tape releases between now and their previous LP release, Friendships Formed in the Pit.
Patti - "The Toothpick 3" | Album Review
Slipping - "So Long" | Post-Trash Premiere
Milkweed - "Myths and Legends of Wales" | Album Review
Young Jesus - "Shepherd Head" | Album Review
The near-28 minute album is the latest in a more maverick, singular-songwriter emphasis. This is not exactly a self-conscious decision or predetermined outcome. It’s just that the 4-piece that refined each other and the improvisational methodology reached a limit, perhaps a temporary one. It’s still one that finds Rossiter solo.
Delivery - "Baader Meinhof" | Post-Trash Premiere
Following last year’s great debut EP and follow-up single, Melbourne quintet Delivery are set to release their full length debut, Forever Giving Handshakes. Due out November 11th via Feel It Records (US), Anti Fade Records and Spoilsport Records, the band take their already buzzing formula and up the ante with their best set of songs yet.
Ismatic Guru - "II" | Album Review
With the generic iPhone alarm at the top of the first track setting the tone, Ismatic Guru’s II is the embodiment of waking up too early and your whole breakfast sticking to the pan. Six minutes of spastic but locked-in grooves with lyrics— when you can process them— that sound a lot like vignettes of drug use but when you look closer, aren’t.
Green/Blue - "Worry / Gimme Hell" | Post-Trash Premiere
Just in case you thought two albums had expended Green/Blue’s recorded output for the year, they return with “Worry / Gimme Hell,” a pair of singles originally recorded during the Paper Thin sessions. Due out digitally today via Feel It Records (with a 7” to follow), the songs strip back the band’s coiled burn for something decidedly more garage.
Built to Spill - "When The Wind Forgets Your Name" | Album Review
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (August 29th - September 11th)
Lincoln - "Repair and Reward" | Album Review
Fluung - "The Vine" | Post-Trash Premiere
USA Nails - "Horror Show" | Post-Trash Premiere
It’s been three decades in the making but Skin Graft Records’ 150th release is upon us. In celebration of no. 150, Skin Graft is set to release, Sounds To Make You Shudder, a Halloween compilation featuring Skin Graft artists past, present, and future, with new music from USA Nail, Yowie + David Yow, Jim O’Rourke, .Shatter On Impact, and more.