Bless your eardrums and listen to these tracks.
- YHWH Nailgun – Magazine
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- YHWH Nailgun’s new album Magazine spans just eleven minutes and is crammed full of cacophonous, dynamic energy. Throughout the band’s second album, Zach Borzone’s lyrics growl amongst an angsty, dissonant soundscape created by drummer Sam Pickard, guitarist and producer Saguiv Rosenstock, and synth player Jack Tobias. Despite the album’s unconventional nature, Magazine proves to be cohesive. YHWH Nailgun abides by their own sound, each track its own uncompromising statement. If you missed the band’s release show at Gottscheer Hall last week, be sure to mark your calendars, for October 29th: YHWH Nailgun is playing the Warsaw.
- Superfan – Picture of Return
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- Superfan made their AD 93 debut with “Picture of Return.” Haunting and austere, Kali Flanagan told Stereogum the track is “a reflection on emotional manipulation — falling into a trap built by someone else’s projections and desires that oppose your own.” Within the song, Omeed Almassi’s cello arrangements meld with Flangan’s guitar and vocals to produce an atmosphere of darkness, confusion, and internal reflection. “Picture of Return’s” concluding crescendo is resolute; Flanagan may be close to finding clarity.
- The Healing Power of Horses – In Yr Right Hand Reveal Heaven
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- East Anglian duo The Healing Power of Horses announced their debut EP Summer Indoors (or outside wearing black) releasing July 17th alongside their new single “In Yr Right Hand Reveal Heaven.” This might be my favorite The Healing Power of Horses release yet. Quite literally, throughout “In Yr Right Hand Reveal Heaven,” the band ascends. The track’s heavy and blown out intro dissolves into a weightless melody, with strings and synths lifting the song out of its initial darkness. Make sure to stay tuned for the band’s new album.
- Big Girl – SIDE EFFECTS
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- In Big Girl’s new standalone single “SIDE EFFECTS,” singer Kaitlin Pelkey playfully describes the trials and tribulations of mixing “alcohol and amoxicillin” in a punky, riotgrrrl fashion. Driving and upbeat, “SIDE EFFECTS” is an anthem to listen to when you’re in the throes of a cold’s cognitive dissonance.
- Trophy Wife – Paragraph
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- In the lead up to the release of their second full length album Pathetic, dropping July 10th, Trophy Wife debuted Paragraph; the band’s newest distorted and aching single. In guitarist McKenzie Iazzetta’s search for self-acceptance, she bares all emotions in Paragraph’s raw lyricism and wailing vocals. One of Brooklyn’s rising indie rock and shoegaze acts, Trophy Wife plays Baby’s All Right July 24th.