It's a Bandcamp Friday, AND multiple album contenders for AOTY all dropped today. That's a bunch to juggle, innit? First and foremost, the Drop Nineteens reunion LP Hard Light unlocked today, and we've been singing its praises all week. That's headline enough, but there are three contenders hot on heels: Crystal Canyon (pictured above) have been producing quality material for years now, but Stars and Distant Light shows them reaching […]
Didn't seem like we were overbooked this weekend, until we began the painstaking process of sorting and rotation weighting, and wow... we're well and truly packed. Headliners this weekend include Singapore's Motifs (pictured above), whose full length debut album fulfills all the promise of their early singles (and puts whipped cream on top), Life on Venus (broadcast premiere on Drowned in a Sea of Sound), Lumari (featured here), and a […]
From scorching global temperatures to a loss of bodily autonomy for over 50% of the American population, it seems the wrong time to celebrate groundbreaking new music ("Don't you know? The world is breaking apart!"). And that's true, so far as it goes. But as the world has been breaking apart for nearly a decade now (at least), we welcome those who've only just now caught up. Meanwhile, we'll do […]
Adding both volume and quality to your weekend, we're loading up on fresh releases from Soot Sprite (pictured above), Aire Espacial, Widowspeak, Moon Pics, Narrow Head, Indigos, ultrviolence, did you die, Lavender Blush, Yndling, Andy Bell... and those are just the headliners. We're deep into fresh recordings from Melenas, Just Mustard, Owl's Clover, Wood Lake, Kodiak Galaxy, Strangers in My House, Dirty Sidewalks, Seatemples, Bright Falls, HIGH/LOW, Suburban Living, Emperor […]
We're loaded down with fresh and fabulous sounds this weekend. Headliners include Moscow's Джуна (Dzhuna, pictured above), and SoCal's Davy Drones, whose new album Crash is more than just homage to classic noisegaze artists like APTBS and Spectres, but takes the lessons learned and builds anew from their foundations. But there's so much more: new music from Single Lash, poolshop, No Joy, Teenage Wrist, Memory Mask, ultrviolence, Spunsugar, EWAH & […]
This weekend is packed with reverb and shimmer. And that's not something we'd lie about. Our headliner: Winter, who has dropped a solid platter that's legitimately an Album of the Year contender. We'll have a more fulsome review by Monday, suffice to say Samira Winter has learned the lessons from years of honing her craft, and has outpaced the field in songwriting, arrangement and production this time out. We'll play […]
It's a new weekend, and a huge haul of fresh new tracks for your appreciation. We're leading with Sweam (pictured above), with a fresh yet familiar amalgam of shoegaze, pop and psych flavors that will linger in your ears. We're leaning in heavily on new releases from Hum, 93millionmilesfromthesun, Idi Et Amin, Bones Garage, Aire Espacial, Juliper Sky, mandarinaduck, Key Out, A Shoreline Dream, Alondra Galopa, New Age Healers, Sahara, […]
It's got to be an embarrassment when the year is less than two weeks old, and the album of the year is released. Surely could have allowed others to catch up? No, Tallies dropped their self-titled debut album on Hand Drawn Dracula, and suddenly everyone else is on notice. This capable crew mines a vein of rich dream pop in the sweet spot between The Sundays and Innocence Mission, then […]
