lo-fi
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Multi-instrumentalist, Ty Segall collaborator, and songwriter Mikal Cronin has a new album on the way via Merge Records in May, and “Shout It Out” is the first track to drop from it. It’s a sweet and slightly lo-fi piece of pop rock that feels simultaneously sentimental and thrilled. Enjoy!
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420 love songs (first 40) by Gucci Mane Some of today’s most melancholy and brutally honest songwriters have had their demos gathered from the 420 Love Songs Tumblr into a bandcamp compilation of infinite, sadness. On here you can expect to see plenty from Sam Ray (Teen Suicide, Ricky
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POWER EXCHANGE by Cities Aviv An awesomely grooved instrumental on this Cities Aviv track, “Power Exchange.” I’m absolutely loving the pitch-shifted female vocals, farty synths, and choppy beat. The trap-style hi-hats are nice touch as well. I don’t wanna completely ignore Aviv, though. What I’ve typically heard
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The UK’s Young Fathers have dropped some visuals for their reggae-infused track “Romance,” which came off the group’s recently reissued TAPE ONE. I reviewed it a while back very positively, and I’m still convinced it rules, but I’m patiently waiting to hear some kind of followup–
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Huntronik by Huntronik New York’s Huntronik brings electronics together with various bits of krautrock, garage rock, lo-fi, and post-punk. It’s a pretty interesting amalgamation–mostly because the end result is so difficult to simply pen into one category. Listen to the project’s new, self-titled album via the
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juche by juche juche is a colorful and relaxing little musical project that came to my attention shortly after I did that Macintosh Plus review. In that video, I questioned the legitimacy of a genre label like vaporwave, and led to a lot of comments and dramaaaaaaaaa. I did, however,
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Someone’s Got It In For Me / But There Has To Be More by Lower Denmark’s Lower has a new single up on its Bandcamp, and both tracks take the post-punk outfit into some pretty heavy, dismal, and depressing territory. Both songs work at a slow pace, and feature
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The End Times by Kiran Leonard Kiran Leonard is an ambitious, young multi-instrumentalist who conceptually reaches beyond the limits most bedroom recording artists set for themselves. He proves that with this new piece of his, “The End Times,” which is a 24-minute piece that deals in a bit of pop,
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Over a familiar chord progression and drum beat, Hardly Art’s Grave Babies brings a playfully dark post-punk tune with “Over and Under Ground.” Look for the band’s second full-length LP, Crusher, in February.
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Lo-fi jangle rock purveyor Mac DeMarco has just dropped a new video for the track “Ode to Viceroy,” which comes from his latest album, 2. The video here reveals the song to be an ode to Mac’s smoking habit, which he playfully embraces as he chain smokes from one
