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Recommended Album: JIVEBOMB – ‘ETHEREAL’
The Baltimore band’s phoenix ascent cracks a difficult-to-decode style that mediates both of hardcore’s current directional limbs on their debut full-length.
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Deerhoof – “Immigrant Songs”
We are all visitors in this land, and Deerhoof loudly remind us of that on the latest highlight from their 20th album, ‘Noble and Godlike In Ruin’.
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Model/Actriz – “Doves”
In withholding from a louder ecstasy, Model/Actriz derive their own nuance to that pleasure.
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Wishy – “Over and Over”
Not overthinking the process finds treasure in a simpler approach to alternative pop songwriting perfection on the latest from ‘Planet Popstar’.
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Dummy & GMO – “Unshaped Road (GMO’s Gummy Remix)”
Experimental art-pop trio GMO are given full-blown access to Dummy’s sound lab and further manipulate the ‘Free Energy’ highlight’s gravity.
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Recommended Album: SPELLLING – ‘Portrait of My Heart’
Chrystia Cabral’s outsider nature is her alternative rock star superpower that makes her latest shape-shift an even more inventive take on the genre than anyone else could attempt.
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Superheaven – “Stare At The Void”
The black hole sun has grown even larger in pulling in some of Superheaven’s most melodic gravity yet.
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Lost Film – “Pilot Light”
With their new single, the Western Mass dream-pop band furthers their brightness by setting their sights on the sun.
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Gold Dust – “An Early Translation of a Later Work”
A spiritual communion with some of the realest weird Western Massachusetts vibrations flowing through the air from the psychedelic folk rock band’s new album, ‘In the Shade of the Living Light’.
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This Is Lorelei – “Dancing in the Club (MJ Lenderman Version)”
This Is Lorelei’s epic failure on love sounds like a story fated to be sung like the proper loser fuck-up it is coming off of MJ Lenderman’s tongue.
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Buzz Sound: Combust
Backed by their debut album, ‘Belly of the Beast’, the New York hardcore band are their own breed in taking to streets of rage and grooving hard to the beat.
