Pop
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New York’s Beach Fossils are readying a new EP via Captured Tracks titled What A Pleasure. The first track to drop from it, “Out In the Way,” actually features Wild Nothing’s Jack Tatum. Nice! Listen for some lo-fi production, jangly guitars, and dreamy vocals. What A Pleasure comes
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Dumbo Gets Mad’s debut album is a pretty hefty piece of psychedelic rock and pop. Rarely does anything about this LP come off as “normal.” We’re basically talking about an album full of odd synths, chipmunked vocals, bubble samples, and lyrics about prawns. So it’s hard to
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Slumberland‘s Brown Recluse recently dropped this music video for the track “Mirror Mansion,” which comes from the band’s latest EP / mini-LP, Panoptic Mirror Maze. Download the whole thing for free via bandcamp. Though the release is filled with lots of fun and quirky tunes, it feels a bit
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Braids’ debut LP is a fun exercise in trippy, electronic psychedelia. The vocal and drum mixing and recording could have been a lot better, but the rest of this album is too good to deny. The pulsating synths bounce from one wall to another, the song lengths sprawl out into
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This April, Times New Viking will drop their latest album, Dancer Equired, on Merge Recs. This humble little number from it is “No Room To Live.” Album after album, the band has maintained a lo-fi sound, but it’s worked so generously for them. To be honest, things are a
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Shortly after talking up the upcoming release of Papercuts‘ new album, Fading Parade, a single from it had been dropped by Sub Pop. “Do What You Will” maintains the same shimmer and atmosphere that made You Can Have What You Want such a beautiful experience, but the songwriting is yet
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Bad Panda Records is celebrating one year of odd and creative creative commons jams, and they’re releasing a free compilation to mark the occasion. It features 18 tracks, and there’s a lot of ground covered on this thing. From the filthy psych pop of Dumbo Gets Mad to
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New EP of shimmering, tropical pop with a huge influence coming from the sound of modern psychedelia. Maybe we’ll call it “tripical” music. Too much? The band is Lord Huron. They’re from L.A., and the cover above is for their new EP, Mighty. The title track is
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