ICYMI is a series featuring new and notable releases you (and we) may have missed
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The Districts – “Hey Jo”
The Districts’ music has always felt timeless to me. There’s a quality in the instrumentation and production that brings new and old together allowing the songs to exist in whatever time period in the past 20 years they seem to fit. “Hey Jo” strikes a particularly personal and emotional chord, allowing the listener to really envision themselves on an expanse of endless highway with both their body and their heart aching.
Twin Peaks – “Our World”
A departure from what we’ve come to expect from Twin Peaks, “Our World” is an optimistic, low-key, country tune that could very easily be sandwiched between Elliot Smith and Wilco in your “Chill Sunday” playlist. Inspired by the shit storm circus of modern media, the song is a reminder that amidst all the shit, it’s still “our world”.
Dry Cleaning – ‘Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks’
‘Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks’ is a whirring, monotone internal monologue gone rogue. The term “post-punk” gets thrown around like it’s going out of style and I’m not sure I would lump the band into that lot. Rather than the urgency that’s throughout the music of band’s like Shame, Dry Cleaning is more of a spoken word exploration of our general state of apathy. It’s confrontational in a way that’s thoughtful, maybe even heady, rather than aggressive and in your face. The lyrics are biting and clever and have you hanging on to every word and its subsequent repetitions. It’s the kind of music that makes you want to live in someone else’s mind more often.