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Corker - "Edge of Teeth"

"Edge of Teeth" is an appropriate title for the latest listen from Corker's forthcoming debut full-length effort, Falser Truths, but make no mistake about it -- the rising Cincinnati band are more than just sharpened corners in their version of post-punk. They've an animalistic energy moving at faster pace tearing through the boilerplate of the genre with a carnal vitriol for society seething through the listen's electricity. White hot heat radiating from the adrenaline rush vocalist and guitarist Luke Cornett, guitarist Cole Gilfilen, bassist Ryan Sennett, drummer Alex Easterday, and strange-way synthesizer Spencer Morgan put them on the verge of combustible, but instead, they turn that excess energy into a bestial shredding machine. "Restless / Torture / Always understood!" Feral as anything, Corker chew through opposition without mercy.

Corker's Falser Truths will be released September 1st on Feel It Records.

#new music #corker #feel it records

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Mary Lattimore feat. Meg Baird and Walt McClements - "And Then He Wrapped His Wings Around Me"

Photo by Rachael Pony Cassells

As time sweeps us all into the inevitable void, then maybe at least the music of Mary Lattimore can memorialize those moments which we lived for ages to come once we are gone. The Los Angeles-based experimental composer's music is rife with its own kind of mysticism to do so purely by way of what its sounds evokes. As her 2020 album, Silver Ladders, dipped its toes into existential oceans and the vast of the cosmos, "And Then He Wrapped His Wings Around Me" -- the first single from her forthcoming effort, Goodbye, Hotel Arkada -- provides a comforting sensation that in spite of the whelming nature of a never-ending timeline versus our own limited nature, those memories we create can be encapsulated in reveries like this. The listen hollows itself in tenderness where celestial strings, synths, and a voice from the possible other side of the light which she, alongside multi-instrumentalists Meg Baird and Walt McClements, breathe into being harness a warmth from within the conscious. Even if everything eventually changes and is gone, hopefully the moments Lattimore's wingspan reaches out keeps them safe beneath them.

Directed by: Rachael Pony Cassells

Mary Lattimore's Goodbye, Hotel Arkada will be released October 6th on Ghostly International.

#new music #mary lattimore #ghostly international #Youtube

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Spirit of the Beehive - "natural devotion 2"

Photo by Luke Ivanovich

"We've been trying to make some of the newer stuff less maximalist and just focus on what we can accomplish live. It's not that these songs are simpler: They're just different and have more space, more room to breathe," says Spirit of the Beehive's Zach Schwartz of the tracks featured on the band's forthcoming extended play, i'm so lucky. Following the wild sensory over-stimulation of the Philly experimental pop trio's breakthrough sophomore effort, ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH, anything might feel like a comedown from that, but this direction also is an organic course to follow moving forward. Born out of dissolution of he and bandmate Rivka Raved's relationship, space is a necessity on one of two of its early highlights, "natural devotion 2". The listen coasts through a lo-fidelity of cooling effects and a dimming haze with Schwartz and Raved each reflecting swept up feelings in present and past form. "Don't dissolve in the water with your hand stretched out to find her / In the stillness, I'll remember how you held me when we were together." Shit still gets weird in sound when they're in the studio together, but here, it's as if the intimacy that was has broken down new barriers they're discovering are worth exploring.

Spirit of the Beehive's i'm so lucky will be released September 1st on Saddle Creek.

#new music #spirit of the beehive #saddle creek

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Full Blow Meltdown - “Nothing Matters Anyway”

Photo by Jennalee Butch

You would hope that as you grow older and (hopefully) wiser, the self-hate and weight of the world would, you know, chill out, cut you some slack, and take a break for all the battles you’ve won over them at this point in life. Instead, those creeping doubts become something more like perpetual, rent-free tenants in your brain poking holes through a sound mind whenever you give them an inch to squirm. That would make Full Blown Meltdown, a.k.a. the DIY-championing punk songwriter moniker of reformed metalcore guitarist Will Green, kind of like the landlord to them all on “Nothing Matters Anyway”, the first single from his debut album, Mollify. If you can’t beat them, then join them, and so he does in a manic confessional that doubles as an elder emo ode to aging and growing tired of never getting your shit together. “Oh fuck / We’re losing too much sand / Let’s flip / The hour glass again / And restart for what is this / Maybe the millionth time I failed,” his ego and id barb against one another over spikes of punk-pop riffs, ultra-caffeinated to maximize the spiral and at least turn it into a joyride. “My brain’s a prison cell / I’ve made my own personal hell,” he quips. It’s not sunshine and rainbows optimism, but then again, it’s not toxic positivity either. It’s about acknowledging how everything in the head sucks, and then turning that bad energy into a winning jam.

Designed by: Alex Basinger

Full Blown Meltdown’s Mollify will be released October 6th.

#new music #full blown meltdown

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Speedy Ortiz - “Ghostwriter”

Photo by Chris Carreon

There can’t be a nü metal revival if it never really went away to begin with. What’s been more so interesting beyond the reemerging of some of the era’s cringiest fashion choices as modern cool or young artists literally hitting copy and paste to replicate the sound as their own has been hearing how the genre's influence from decades ago low key molded the shape of sound in higher brow bands who probably wouldn’t have made the Family Values Tour cut back in the day. Still, their appreciation for big, heavy riffs and bastardized static bleeds into something meticulated as more bookwormish, as it does on “Ghostwriter”, the latest preview from Speedy Ortiz’s fourth studio effort, Rabbit Rabbit. Lead lyrical scribe, vocalist and guitarist Sadie Dupuis, guitarist Andy Molholt, bassist Audrey Zee Whitesides, and drummer Joey Doubek weaponize unrelenting teenage aggro in the listen to their advantage even when a world in decay pushes your limits to fatigue. “I’m tired of anger / How to move on? / Even comets are staying in one spot.” Still think climate change is a hoax? If it isn't the record heat or floods, then Speedy Ortiz burning up by way of metaphorical flame patterned shirt should push the scientific evidence for it to the forefront.

Directed by: Alex Ross Perry

Speedy Ortiz’ Rabbit Rabbit will be released September 1st on Wax Nine.

#new music #speedy ortiz #wax nine

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Jobber - “Summerslam”

Photo by Cooper Winterson

Is it possible to consider Jobber’s marriage of rock, wrestling themes, and the heaviest realities of life both a match made in heaven and a match made in Hell? “Summerslam”, the Brooklyn-based four-piece’s new standalone single rriving just in time for this weekend's “biggest party of the summer”, , makes an argument that neither need be mutually exclusive when it comes to how the band throws down their riff rippers. The listen goes beyond the squared circle, too, in its worship of a certain aesthetic in alternative culture when baggy clothes, chain wallets, and heavy body jewelry reigned and everything about rock was heavy, which has since looped its way back into our timeline. Guitarist and vocalist Kate Meizner, drummer Mike Falcone, guitarist Michael Julius, and bassist Miles Toth aren’t just indie rock sports entertainers who can channel Helmet, Hum, and ‘99 era Macho Man in one fell swoop. They’re smashing elbows on our current political superstars whose jaded ways fail to grab the brass ring and lead us all to contend with some really questionable booking decisions, blurring that fine line between storytelling and real life, and giving you reason to ponder where some people in powers' gimmicks start and where they end...

Edited by: Michael Falcone

Jobber’s “Summerslam” single is available now on Exploding In Sound Records.

#new music #jobber #exploding in sound records

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Hotline TNT - “Protocol”

Photo by Sara Messinger

There’s no reason to continue wading through the deep if there’s a way to climb your way out from it. That sentiment is two-fold for Hotline TNT on “Protocol”, the Brooklyn-based noise pop band’s new single and first for their new label home at Third Man Records. Ever since their 2021 breakthrough debut full-length, Nineteen In Love, the band fronted by former Weed guitarist Will Anderson has been delivering daydream bangers rich with woozy textures and big time fuzz that have accentuated wistfulness in real time. “Protocol” hears Anderson and company crossing over to the other side of those sensory sensations, clinging onto its good parts in its sweet elixir of heavenly reverb while recognizing the power of clearing out the heaviness from your conscious even if it means shouldering the blame. “Which side I'm on / Don't matter if you're gone / Just make sure / Run first when you're hurt,” he sings. It’s certainly a step toward moving forward rather than always looking back...

Directed by: Fiona Kane

Hotline TNT’s “Protocol” single is available now on Third Man Records.

#new music #hotline tnt #third man records

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WORN - “ENTITY & FORM”

When WORN released their debut full-length, HUMAN WORK, in 2021, there was no mistaking who the Wilkes-Barre band were aiming their ire toward. We were all complicit and targets of the five-piece’s brutalist hardcore that looked at this shit pile of society and said, “Destroy it.” The problems still remain, however, and on "ENTITY & FORM” -- the lead single from their forthcoming EP, CONDENSING FLESH -- the band holds a mirror toward everything we consume as media and the way it desensitizes us to actua humanl terror, and decides that it, too, needs to be bulldozed down to rubble. The whole thing, in its two-minute-and-15-second D-beat destruction mode, sounds awfully impatient and unapologetic for what it is about to ruin, as it should. WORN merely look at where society fails, and do their job of undoing it even if it means leaving nothing behind in their wake.

WORN’s CONDENSING FLESH will be released September 1st on From Within Records.

#new music #worn #from within records

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Armand Hammer feat. Pink Siifu - “Trauma Mic”

Photo by Alexander Richter

“Who needs to think when your feet just go? / Who needs to think when your mouth just run?,” questions Elucid on “Trauma Mic”, the first single from the duo’s new album and first for Fat Possum, We Buy Diabetic Test Strips. The game does seem to be catching onto the heels of Armand Hammer’s style, and yet, their bars find the pair unbothered. At the forefront of New York City’s underground rap scene, billy woods and Elucid have been meticulously designing effortless flows of perfection in a prismatic daydream built with beats psychedelic and soul-styled in both tandem and singular form with their recent unstoppable run since dropping 2020′s Haram. “Trauma Mic” sounds like throwing that tension right off their backs with a more skinned reaction. Produced by DJ Haram, it’s arguably one of the heavier tracks to drop by way of woods and Elucid, who here are joined by Pink Siifu in the trenches where metal of cymbals crash fast, sharp and violent while electronic industrial bass rumbles from the ether from their bold font echo chamber. They drive change naturally, while everyone else is forced to evolve.

Directed by: Henry Nelson & Tim Blake Nelson

Armand Hammer’s We Buy Diabetic Test Strips will be released September 29th on Fat Possum.

#new music #armand hammer #pink siifu #fat possum

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Irreversible Entanglements - “Free Love”

Photo by Piper Ferguson

With their 2021 breakthrough full-length, Open the Gates, Irreversible Entanglements -- the experimental jazz collective featuring Moor Mother’s Camae Ayewa, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, saxophonist Keir Neuringer, drummer Tcheser Holmes, and bassist Luke Stewart -- exploded the free-born elements of their sound to create a sonic diagram of the universe’s energy moving through the human experience. It felt as massive as the cosmos. “Free Love”, the first preview from the band’s fourth full-length effort, Protect Your Light, is as unhindered by boundaries as anything the multi-instrumental, multi-talented group has ventured to create, but there is a concentrated focus on those two words in its title in a micro sense that in turn channels that same big bang energy through the individual, with a mosaic of airborne brass, ground-bending ebbs of rhythm and percussion, and Ayewa’s poetry lifting spirit upward. “Sweet honey / Sticky sweet / You are love / More love.” When all sound settles on her final breath, inner peace is illuminated.

Irreversible Entanglments’ Protect Your Light will be released September 8th on Impulse! Records.

#new music #irreversible entanglements #moor mother #impulse! records

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Mitski - “Bug Like An Angel”

Photo by Ebru Yildiz

In a world where it can oft feel like every indie musician who achieves a greater degree of success goes for the pivot to synth-pop and stays there, it’s welcome a change of sonic scenery to hear that the creative story does not stop there with Mitski. “Bug Like An Angel”, the lead single and opener from her seventh studio effort, This World Is Inhospitable and So Are We, reembraces the natural complexities to her songwriting which she humbly became a cult of personality with in weaponizing acoustic musings and careful pianos steps. This is the world class Mitski of 2023, however, and although her sound here is built on bare bones, there is a wider view in its greater depiction of the personal and humanity at large with words punctuated by a 17-person chorus. Beneath her breath, a stark source of inward enlightenment even when indulging the bottom of the glass: “Makin' all variety of vows I'll never keep / I try to remember / The wrath of the devil / Was also given him by God." It’s all significant in Mitski's eyes, even when there's next to nothing left.

Directed by: Noel Paul

Mitski’s The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We will be released September 15th on Dead Oceans.

#new music #mitski #dead oceans

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Cupid & Psyche - “Angels On the Phone”

Photo by Dan Monick

Los Angeles’ the Smell scene of the mid-Aughts was a wonderfully weird period of new music discovery where its circle of DIY punk bands sounded nothing like one another, yet bonded over the shared pursuit of singular noisemaking. Alongside the likes of No Age, HEALTH, Mika Miko, and Vivian Girls, Abe Vigoda were arguably the most transfiguring, beginning as a bright, tropicalia punk band to abrasively compliment the preppier corners of Vampire Weekend’s rise before embracing full-on goth pop on their 2010 standout, Crush. Abe Vigoda would splinter a year later, but more than a decade onward, its formidable half in vocalist and guitarist Michael Vidal and guitarist Juan Velasquez resurface as Cupid & Psyche. “Angels On the Phone”, the lead single from their debut full-length, Romantic Music, mends the time lost over the course of its crystallization of transfixing ‘80s post-punk glum, sizzling neon, and dreamy synth-pop that again breathes mystery into the dark with the duo’s rekindled style chemistry. “It’s not what I thought / It’s what you wanted it to be / Angel laughing,” Vidal sings, as if knowing the music would always pull him and Velasquez back in this strange form of love.

Directed by: Gerardo Guerrero

Cupid & Psyche’s Romantic Music will be released September 22nd on Felte Records.

#new music #cupid & psyche #felte records

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Mary Jane Dunphe - “Always Gonna Be the Same”

Photo by Alex Mctigue

We don’t need to be martyrs to suffering or prisoners of our own pain at the end of the day. “Once you know you’re in control”, Mary Jane Dunphe reminds us on “Always Gonna Be the Same” -- the latest preview from the multi-factted punk and experimental pop scene songwriter’s forthcoming debut solo effort, Stage of Love -- and from there on out, you understand that there are ways to release yourself from it all. In turn, the listen is a spectacular oddity of synth-pop in constant evolution where colors and shapes form, move, and burst in response to any stagnation. “It’s always gonna be the same / Until you let it go,” Dunphe sings in its chorus. What is blocking your ability to do so may not be on board with that, but you also don’t need its permission. That sense of choosing freedom opens up an entirely new worldview, and in Dunphe's case, a boundless sonic exploration with it.

Directed by: Ewelina Rosinska & Mary Jane Dunphe

Mary Jane Dunphe’s Stage of Love will be released August 25th on Pop Wig.

#new music #mary jane dunphe #pop wig

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The Armed - “Everything’s Glitter”

Photo by Nate Sturley

“Every single breath -- a work of art / My mere existence is a part of the show,” sneers Tony Wolski into the electrical crush of “Everything’s Glitter”, the latest preview from the Armed’s new album, Perfect Saviors. The subversive performance hardcore band are surely doing their most to make us think they’ve dropped the bit leading into their anticipated fifth studio effort, Perfect Savior, but have they really? References to khaki towns, gods, idols, heartbreakers, and caricatures sure seems to suggest that the Detroit collective’s next page goes deep into the life of the pedestrian, and as some detractors have come quick to misfire, the Armed really aren’t sounding so much like the hardcore supergroup who brought artsy theatrics into the pit so much as they are a polished indie rock festival headliner, with Wolski’s howl resonating into the listen’s towering ether like a Strokes wave soundalike convinced that he must be the real deal. If only it weren’t for the fact he’s merely refracting off the ones who did it first. The listen still glitters, but it’s also a shattered hall of mirrors.

Directed by: Tony Wolski

The Armed’s Perfect Saviors will be released August 25th on Sargent House.

#new music #the armed #sargent house

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twentythreenineteen - “Stain Glass Slaring”

It’s easy to love everything going on through the messy, yellow stained window of twentythreenineteen’s “Stain Glass Slaring” if you enjoyed the slanted view on Sweet Pill’s breakthrough debut full-length last year, Where the Heart Is, being that guitarist Sean McCall plays an instrumental part in architecting the framework behind both. As the first preview from All This Love, the forthcoming extended play from his forthcoming side-project under the XXIIIXIX banner, he uses some of the familiar x’s and y’s of Sweet Pill’s mathematically progressive emotional rock headcharge, but gives himself permission to flail with all the conflicted problem solving remaining in sight. At times, he’s simply resolute in his Braid-ed post-hardcore thought bubbles, and in others, digs down deep into rabbit holes only to pop out with the realizations he’s looking for. “I was a kid who couldn’t process compassion! / I was a chump who could never learn his lesson!,” he shouts at its epiphany. The window may not be perfectly clear, but he’s seeing himself better now through it at least...

twentythreenineteen’s All This Love will be released August 31st.

#new music #twentythreenineteen #sweet pill

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Lost Film - “Little Things Forever”

A song feeling comfortably like a place to live in while the world outside is falling apart does not need to be mutually exclusive, and Lost Film wear that homebody sentiment well in their sound. Since debuting the project in 2015, the band moniker of Easthampton songwriter Jimmy Hewitt has projected a calm mood board across the everyday existential daze and malaise of washed out indie pop. On “Little Things Forever”, the lead single from his band’s new album, Keep It Together, staying in and embracing what’s safe and sure doesn’t seem like such a bad idea in the way Hewitt curls his voice beneath a cozy blanket of emotive guitars and power pop splendor basking in an afterglow. “I never fear that I miss out / I know I should go do something else / Instead, I'm here inside this house / With you and nobody else,” he sings. While it sounds like a sigh, it’s also one of relief for a change.

Keep It Together by Lost Film

Lost Film’s Keep It Together will be released September 15th on Relief Map Records.

#new music #lost film #relief map records

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Recommended Album: Strange  Ranger - ‘Pure Music’

Music has a power behind it that can elicit so many waves of reactions within us. It exists side by side with our deepest emotional connections, can be felt as an atmospheric sensation, unlocks -- or even creates -- memories, and can transcend matter as something behind the physically tangible such as being the source of adrenaline pumping its way into our bodies. For Strange Ranger to call their third proper studio effort Pure Music risks everything to live up to its titular expectation, and yet the Philly-based experimental indie rockers have made a career-definitive listen that exemplifies the relationship between our humanly sensory experiences and song. Following the multi-dimensional trajectory which their 2020 mixtape, No Light in Heaven, traversed, vocalist and guitarist Isaac Eiger, vocalist and electrician Woodman, drummer and sax player Nathan Tucker, and bassist Fred Nixon go deeper out into their outer element. Particles of synthetic pop and deep house beats molecularlizing on the album’s consciously-concerned holy spirit “Wide Awake”, “Dream”, and “Dazed in the Shallows” sound alien yet intimately designed in their ability to connect with feeling everything in the moment, while ambient solar waves sync into guitar-born electricity on “Rain So Hard” and “She’s On Fire” like memory synapses. The past, present and possible future are blurred between as is the space which the listen will discover yoy, giving you the ability to move through strobing clubs as much as it does wilding out with the windows down. Or perhaps, none of it as concrete as the place inside your head that only the listener holds the key to. In its most purest form, Pure Music is sensory and sonic plasticity whose form may have been sourced from a creator, but ultimately is defined by those who come into contact with it.

Highlights: “She’s On Fire”, “Dream”, “Wide Awake”

Pure Music by Strange Ranger

Strange Ranger’s Pure Music is available now on Fire Talk. Buy | Stream

#albums #strange ranger #fire talk