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Lars Gotrich · 4 · 2d ago #NewMusicFriday 🧵
Sweeping Promises, 'You Say I Romanticize'
Earnestly nerdy punk anthems by deeply uncool weirdos. These are my people, twisting the esoteric into something sticky with a euphoric energy. I freaking love this band.
sweepingpromises.bandcamp.com/album/you-sa...
Lars Gotrich · 3 · 2d ago #NewMusicFriday 🧵
Regulator Watts, 'kWh'
The D.C. power trio refines and revs up the atmospheric and melodic strain of post-hardcore they developed in the '90s … and goes harder than most reunions have any business of doing.
regulatorwatts.bandcamp.com/album/kwh
Lars Gotrich · 2 · 2d ago #NewMusicFriday 🧵
Duffy x Uhlmann, 'Hot Creek'
Unconventionally beautiful guitar duos that seem to send Satie's Gymnopédies through squigglevision or arrange The Books' cut-and-paste wonders in real time. Playful, cozy and pastoral.
duffyuhlmann.bandcamp.com/album/hot-cr...
Lars Gotrich · 2 · 2d ago #NewMusicFriday 🧵
Ishmael Reed, 'Every Time I Feel the Spirit'
These home-taped solo piano recordings of the innovative writer are much like his texts: Less interested in what we know and instead coloring around the pathways that take us there.
readinggroupcompany.bandcamp.com/album/every-...
Lars Gotrich · 2 · 2d ago #NewMusicFriday 🧵
Power Snatch, 'EP2'
Hayley Williams just casually fires off jokey lyrics on Amy Poehler's podcast and then writes a downtrodden banger. Ain't that the way. Half cinematic indie-rock, half hypnagogic trip-hop by way of Return of the Frog Queen.
powersnatch.bandcamp.com/album/ep2
Lars Gotrich · 2 · 2d ago #NewMusicFriday 🧵
Kory Reeder, 'Great Plains Songbook'
Old hymns, parlor songs and ballads sparsely arranged that map and critique memory. The DIY recording lets the bird chirps, chair creaks and room noise fill the space with a haunted curiosity.
koryreeder.bandcamp.com/album/texas-...
Lars Gotrich · 1 · 2d ago #NewMusicFriday 🧵
Fatboi Sharif & ELUCID, 'Invasion Body Camera'
Two hip-hop surrealists walk into a red room and WHAT THE %$#@ IS THAT CRAWLING OUT OF THE CORNER. ELUCID's bad-trip beats and Sharif's nightmarish bellows drip an ominous ooze.
elucid.bandcamp.com/album/invasi...
Lars Gotrich · 4 · 2d ago #NewMusicFriday 🧵
Evil Island, 'Terraform the Afterlife'
Screeching and sassy punk chaos returns just as indie sleaze slithers back into consciousness. This can't help but be Blood Brothers 2.0, but the sneer is meaner and the riffs are leaner.
evilisland.bandcamp.com/album/terraf...
Lars Gotrich · 6 · 2d ago #NewMusicFriday 🧵
Open Mike Eagle & Kenny Segal, 'DOOMED!'
This one-rapper-one-producer album is long overdue. These two share a broken-but-healed sensibility, which serve these self-aware break-up missives well.
openmikeeagle.bandcamp.com/album/doomed