Upset the Rhythm continue their series of reissues and excavations of Normal Hawaiians catalog. Dark World collects some of the band’s earliest works, culling together looser, more raw recordings from their formative…
Excited to share this one today, the first cut off of Rhyton’s sixth album, Pharaonic Crosstalk. Following up on the excellent Krater’s Call from last year, Shuford, SeiTang & Smith are back…
The third album from The Catenary Wires pushes further towards an overcast folk, but keeps windtorn pop at its heart. The band features members of Heavenly, Tender Trap, and Talulah Gosh, but…
Why not cap things off today with a new cut from San Francico’s April Magazine? The band, which features members of The Reds, Pinks and Purples and Flowertown have a new cassette…
Ah another new cut slips out from the upcoming Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders LP. The eponymous album is a turn away from the band’s recent live sets which explore some…
Another track rolls in from one of my most anticipated records of the year, Scott Hirsch’s Windless Day. Hirch’s last album was a total favorite around here and the new album expands…
It’s a day for longtime favorites around here and this one comes from Justin Wright’s altar of ash Expo ’70. Though that’s not right, here on Evolution, as the album is rightly…
Savage Young Taterbug has been a favorite around here back since his Night People Tapes days and its nice to see a new single eke out from Charles Free this week. As…
Good news for guitar benders today with the announcement of a new release from Ryley Walker’s Husky Pants label. Walker’s no slouch in the collaboration department, having worked out duos over the…
Quite a lovely collaboration today between Jack Name and Irish artist Aoife Nessa Frances. With a mutual appreciation for one another’s work spurring the two to do a duet, the pair unleash…
From the first notes of The Goon Sax’s third album the tone is darker, or perhaps that’s not the word. Thicker, might be closer to the idea. The band’s previous albums bent…
Toronto’s Motorists divine a classic guitar pop pulse, imbuing their first single “Through To You,” and subsequently, their debut LP with ringing guitars and an insistent ache. The band finds the through…
Following up on his 2019 LP for Castle Face, Nolan Potter (Knife Ritual, Lake of Fire) returns with a slinked-out piece of baroque psychedelia that feels like the offspring of Nightmare Forever.…
It’s hard to not find quite a heavy bit of crossover between the constantly re-configuring, Canterbury-influenced prog epics in COS’ catalog and the output of someone like Gong, who were ingesting some…
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