This albums chart is specific: rated only by number of total spins from an album on our air. It's an imperfect methodology, punishing those releases in the latter half of the year, but... it's also the easiest to prove, with a spin count to back it up. So, it's raw data that can be trusted, even if it does favor early-year releases. The only exception to the accuracy of this […]
There are some songs you vividly remember hearing for the first time. They sear themselves into your memory, like a firework in your head. Such as it was for me the first time I heard Chicago trio Horsegirl. It was one day in February last year. Scrolling through my Facebook feed there popped up a post from UK based shoegaze label Sonic Cathedral. Generally, when I see a post from […]
Based on sheer volume of new tracks submissions, you'd think it was Bandcamp Friday (it's not, but it will resume in September). More new releases, and more track-for-track quality, than we're used to on any given weekend. Albums, we're celebrating Horsegirl, Just Mustard, Gone, Droopies, Animal Ghosts, Jōetsu Shore, Kamikaze Nurse (pictured above), Pure Hex, Minaxi, and select album tracks from Les Manteez. And those are just the albums. We're […]
Sparkling weekend planned, surely something to be thankful for. It begins with the new album release from Blankenberge (pictured above) that we've been shouting about for weeks now. It seems that there's a slate of heavy-hitting albums to be unleashed in the last months of 2021, likely to be vying for Album of the Year, and Everything makes a strong case for the title here. We're surprised and thrilled to […]
