Listen: 2012 Bid Adieu –“Sanity”
It was two years ago now that 2012 Bid Adieu released their debut LP. Titled We Died In 2012: This Is Hell, but it’s not unacceptable to think it may have been a more appropriate record to drop one...
View ArticleListen: Blanck Mass ‘In Ferneaux’
In Ferneaux, the latest LP from Benjamin John Power as Blanck Mass, begins in the middle of nowhere. An ambient loop bounces along, unintelligible vocal samples begin to creep in, and before you know...
View ArticleSpirit Award earns their gold star on crunchy and fuzzed out Lunatic House
Lunatic House, the third album from Seattle’s Spirit Award forms the culmination of a trilogy of crunchy and fuzzed out albums that subverts genre conventions by crystalizing psychedelic ambiguity with...
View ArticleWatch: Wolf Alice “The Last Man on Earth”
Wolf Alice has been serenading listeners with dreamy indie rock since 2010. The four-piece London-based band dropped “The Last Man on Earth” in February 2021 as the first single for their album Blue...
View ArticleSteele FC’s “Cherry” ruminates on a beautiful breakup
I am being haunted by breakup tracks, but I’m not sure what else I expected. All music is about love and loss in one way or another. “But not all music is about relationships specifically!” No, it’s...
View ArticleWatch: Appleby ‘Here With U’
Appleby saunters into 2021 with his first single, “Here With U”. According to his TikTok, the song was just a chorus living on his hard drive for almost a year until it came into fruition after meeting...
View Article‘Threesome’ showcases Baby Boys’ chaotically good collaboration
The sensual cover art for Baby Boys’ debut full-length record, Threesome (released March 12 via Grand Jury), practically predestined it to be a wild ride. More than that, though, it somehow perfectly...
View ArticleMixtape: what we’re listening to
Art by Mikayla Lewis Writing and reading about music is always a little ironic instead of just listening to the thing, so we’re bringing it back to basics with our new mixtape “what we’re listening...
View ArticleN0V3L search for balance on “Group Disease”
With an 80s tinged, post punk darkness, offset by inescapably catchy, tinkling keys, N0V3L is back with the first single off their debut record Non-Fiction, “Group Disease”. The track details the...
View ArticleListen: Squid –“Paddling”
Here they come. There’s a steady build up to Squid’s latest track “Paddling”. First comes a simple riff, then some electric drums, steadily getting louder and louder, until the voice of Anton Pearson...
View ArticleDavid Lynch takes a trip on the good ship lollipop on Glume’s “What is a...
In a rich, red brocade room, complete with a heart shaped headboard and sparkling chandelier, we find the always enchanting Glume for her latest hypnotic dance hit. Looking like a mix between doll and...
View ArticleBlack Honey have finally nailed the sound they’ve been striving for, and it’s...
Photo by Laura Allard Fleischl Infusing the actual blood, sweat and tears of band members into the pressings of vinyl records is a flex usually reserved for the heaviest of heavy metal bands. It’s a...
View ArticleWatch: Mia Joy “Freak”
photo by Sydney Haliburton With distant, reverberating chords and percussion reminiscent of water droplets plopping heavy down to the earth, Mia Joy entrances listeners into a state of rapt attention...
View ArticleSex is good but have you listened to Donna Missal?
Photo by Julia Pitch We’ve all been doing a lot of masturbating lately. Certainly the rise of OnlyFans is proof of that. Masturbating on camera, masturbating in front of a laptop screen, FaceTiming...
View ArticleWelcome to Aries season: hard-headed but squishy on the inside
Aries season, March 20-April 19, marks the start of the zodiac calendar. It’s fresh, it’s Spring, it feels like we might be seeing the light at the end of the long dark tunnel we’ve been in (if you’re...
View ArticleWatch: Iceage “Shelter Song”
Photo by Jonas Bang Iceage’s “Shelter Song” is shockingly tender, embodying a hugely 90s sound with mellow, chest-driven vocals — a stark contrast to the post-punk, experimental, psychedelic sound of...
View ArticleMixtape: it’s called regression, sweaty
You’re either lying or living in a very different reality if you haven’t experienced even a *momentary* moment of regression the past year. What do I mean by regression? I mean going to back to the...
View ArticleDry Cleaning doesn’t care about your socialized ideals
Photo by Steve Gullick On their latest video, “Unsmart Lady”, Dry Cleaning shares amongst skittering guitars and Florence Shaw’s beloved monotone vocal delivery that they really couldn’t give a fuck...
View ArticleBeen Stellar break free from media mind control on the rebellious “Louis XIV”
Photo by Drake Li Tackling heady topics in musical four-minute treatises is a hallmark of a certain school of independent music, and few bands can blend musical chops with conscious conceptualism as...
View ArticleWombo’s “Dreamsickle” is a dreamy lullaby
Photo by Destiny Robb The video for Wombo’s Dreamsickle puts the viewer in the perspective of a very young child, looking up at the sun and moon carousel hanging from their ceiling. That’s appropriate...
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