Life Gone Wrong by Landscapes Life Gone Wrong is the first album from melodic hardcore outfit Landscapes who hail from the UK. They are attempting to become another one of the few hardcore bands that is attempting to break away from the formula that seems to plague the genre. They
Los Angeles beat maestro The Gaslamp Killer is readying his first proper full-length album for a September 18 release via Brainfeeder. The record will be called Breakthrough, and features guest contributions from Gonjasufi, Samiyam, Shigeto, Dimlite, Daedelus, and several others. The latter is featured on the most recent track to
New Orleans indie pop group Generationals, the duo comprised by Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer, has a new EP on the way titled Lucky Numbers. The band will be self-releasing it on October 2, following last year’s sophomore LP Actor-Castor. Above, you can stream the title track from the
When the adjective optimistic is used to describe electronic pop music, the sounds of treacly, unimaginative boy-girl duos with musical knowledge so primitive they make Beat Happening look like Beethoven in comparison often come to mind. A highly welcome change of pace, Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Altar Eagle pen mature, subtle
By clicking play on the widget above, you won’t be listening to a song. Instead you’ll be listening to a sonic painting. The reason I make this distinction is because the music was not written simply to be a pleasantly arranged series of notes. Instead it is a
I am a huge sucker for Spencer Krugs lyrical style and vocal delivery, there’s a fantastical quality about it that still remains raw with emotion, it feels genuinely unique. Of course he is best known for his bands: Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown. His new focus is collaborative/solo
Years Past Matter by Krallice Black metal experimentalists Krallice release their fourth full-length album, Years Past Matter, and it’s definitely a step up from the New York band’s last album, Diotima, in my opinion–at least from a production standpoint. Every drum hit and tremolo-picked guitar lead on
Rangda drops a new track from its forthcoming album on Drag City, Formerly Extinct.
Indie folk outfit Villagers has a new single out titled “the Waves,” which features an extremely surprising change of direction for the band whose previous efforts were mostly humbling, sad, singer-songwriter tunes with baroque instrumentation and a Bright Eyes-esque personality. This new track, though, features loads of electronics, louder instrumentation,
Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum drops another track from what’s going to be his second full-length album this year, Ocean Roar. It’s a slow, serene ballad featuring the kind of atmospheric synths that were so prevalent on this albums predecessor, Clear Moon. Some of Phil’s lyrics leave
