Exercise - "Ipso Facto" | Album Review
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (August 7th - August 13th)
Truth Cult - "Walk The Wheel" | Album Review
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Helvetia - "The Beach At The Edge Of The World"
We can’t overstate the importance of Helvetia, a constant favorite for well over a decade. The impact of its sound and style, the structure, finesse (as well as lack of finesse), has left a profound impression on what this era’s psychedelic music can be. The Beach At The Edge Of The World is a prime example of Helvetia at its absolute best.
Mother Tongues - "Love in a Vicious Way" | Album Review
EXEK - "Welcome To My Alibi" | Post-Trash Premiere
After five increasingly fantastic albums, Melbourne’s EXEK have undoubtably staked their claim as one of this generation’s most forward thinking post-punk bands. Set to release The Map and The Territory on October 6th via Foreign Records, the band’s lush synth explorations continue to be dazzlingly muted but fully immersive.
Shalom - "Sublimation" | Album Review
The collaboration of Ryan Hemsworth’s (Quarter-Life Crisis) electronic music specialty and Shalom Obisie-Orlu’s emotional value produced Shalom’s incredibly solid debut album, Sublimation. The two are said to have “worked seamlessly” as the original seven tracks turned into Hemsworth’s encouraged twelve.
The Lentils - "Hello Jane Goodall, Are You Listening?" | Album Review
Gorgeous - "Sapsucker" | Album Review
Gorgeous is certainly one of the most interesting acts in the scene, a two-piece who has begun to twist the basic principles of math and indie rock, pulling the threads all the way until the seams reach their absolute limit. On a first listen of Sapsucker, what you’re most struck by is most likely the duality of angular guitar and crisp drums.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (July 24th - August 6th)
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Florry - "The Holey Bible"
Some bands just sound like they are up for a good time. Florry are one of those bands. Led by frontperson Francie Medosch, Florry continue to let loose with a rootsy folk/country blend and some truly incisive and often times devastating lyricism on the Philadelphia based band's second full length, The Holey Bible.
Powerplant- "Grass" | Album Review
Across their various efforts, including the awesome Stump Soup, Powerplant seem to shift sonically with an anxious and unknowable energy. That may be, as Grass demonstrates, because they feel time endlessly ticking away and the only way to make it matter is to embrace one’s whims in a battle against this ceaseless march toward obsolescence.
Cherry Cheeks - "Hard Stancing" | Post-Trash Premiere
Monde UFO - "Drive Up Drive Thru Solitude" | Post-Trash Premiere
Fred Cracklin - "Head Meet Concrete" | Post-Trash Premiere
Fred Cracklin are about as relentless and absurd as one could hope for from a band called Fred Cracklin. A guitar and drums math-noise duo in the vein of Hella and Lightning Bolt, they’ve released three albums since 2018, and are now back with the song “Head Meet Concrete,” their first release since their 2021 split with First Children.
Chat Pile & Nerver - "Brothers In Christ" | Album Review
Something arises from hell, attempting to crawl its way into heaven – only to find that the god is just as terrifying. Nerver and Chat Pile are bonded by blood on their 2023 split EP, Brothers in Christ. Hailing from Missouri and Oklahoma, among the plains it’s impossible to ignore titanic billboards that scream “HELL IS REAL”.
Lavoro - "The Heat" | Post-Trash Premiere
You can’t escape the heat. In the case of Toronto’s Lavoro and their new single “The Heat,” you can simply give in and let it envelope you. The band, whose members have played in Chris, Animal Faces, Fake Palms, and Sauna, are creating on the colder end of post-punk, their music a mix of woozy dissonance, colossal rhythms, and mechanical menace.
Guided By Voices - "Welshpool Frillies" | Album Review
Guided By Voices has had a very busy forty years, though their thirty-seven albums only prove that you can have quantity without wavering quality. Welshpool Frillies arrived almost exactly six months to the day after their last album, La La Land, after a prolific run of eight albums in the last three years.
Sarah Morrison - "Gray Apples" | Post-Trash Premiere
On her forthcoming debut, Attachment Figure, Sarah Morrison aims to capture the unease of hearing the score of a horror film. She’s previously toured as the keyboardist for Locate S,1, and is now working alongside producers and fellow Locate S,1 members Ross Brand and Clayton Rychlik (who also played in Of Montreal).