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June 17, 2018

June’s First Half: Honorable Mentions (Songs, Music Videos, Full Streams)

The first half of June carried plenty of surprises. This month has been, notably, dominated by major hip-hop artists and included the release of several major records that have the capacity to hijack year-end lists. Those releases have never been the focal point of this site and this won’t be the post where that changes. Every item on this list, as always, deserves more attention than it’ll receive. Following this list, there will be a few other key releases that get highlighted but these songs, clips, and records deserve all the support they can get, including the below listings and anyone willing to click their links. Enjoy.

SONGS:

Rob Dickson, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Dead Sullivan, Henrik Appel, Cuesta Loeb, Protomartyr, Amos and Spencer, Fleabite, Thin Lips, Dumb, The Molochs, Spencer Radcliffe, Kevin Krauter, Bleeth, Everything By Electricity, Scattered Clouds, Susie Scurry, MOURN, The Rareflowers, Clean Spill, Guts Club, Darren Jessee, Orions Belte, Late Bloomer, Laurel Halo, The Ophelias, Freedom Baby, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Alexander BIggs, Manatree, Runtom Knuten, Manchester Orchestra, Sun June, Angelo De Augustine, Ancestors, ShitKid, Icecapades, Deafheaven, Baby Blue, Frida, Cigarettes After Sex, R+R=NOW, Van Common, Hana Vu, The Dirty Nil, Stalagmites, Wild Nothing, Birdtalker, Jon Spencer, Two Meters, Claw Marks, El Ten Eleven, Birds In Row, Color Tongue, serpentwithfeet, Estrons, Echo Courts, Lazyeyes, Death Grips, Mom Jeans, Gold Star, and a massive offering from Ben Seretan (which accompanies a behemoth multimedia art project that’s worth tracking).

MUSIC VIDEOS:

Clearance, Strange Relations, Death Bells, LIFE, oso oso, The Essex Green, White Woods, Devon Welsh, NEEDS, Thirsty Curses, lemin., Spiritualized, Cold Fronts, Empath, Dirty Projectors, Anna Calvi, VedeTT, The Beths, Cornelia Murr, King Princess, The Fur Coats, Stringer, The Due Diligence, NOTHING, Howard, White Denim, Animal House, and Sad Baxter.

FULL STREAMS:

Miranda Winters, Petal, Spiritual Cramp, Deux Trois, Dark Thoughts, Dos Santos, Some Gorgeous Accident, Johnny Conqueroo, Tancred, Blushh, Juliana Daugherty, Giant Peach, Hala, Anthony Green, Two Meters, Cold Meat, June Gloom/Rock Solid, CASCINE and Stadiums & Shrines’ Dreams compilation, Palberta, Bloody Knives, Will Henriksen, Surf Dads, God Bless Relative, GRLWood, and Ana Egge.

October 28, 2014

Cherry Glazerr – Nurse Ratched (Stream)

Over the past few days a fair few songs have found their way into the world. Among them were Low Culture’s characteristically blistering “Oh Jazelle”, a severely damaged noise-psych bruiser from Timmy’s Organism, a strong reminder- in the form of “Now I Understand“- that The Proper Ornaments’ Wooden Heads is worth year-end consideration, a pulverizing shard of wiry post-punk from newly-signed Captured Tracks act MOURN, a sprawling world-builder from the dream collaboration of The Bug and Earth, and the absolutely gorgeous piano-led “Bell’s View” from Grandaddy mastermind Jason Lytle. One of the tracks that stuck out most, though, was “Nurse Ratched”, a new highlight from basement poppers Cherry Glazerr.

With their new EP, Had Ten Dollaz, out today, Cherry Glazerr continue a career-launching 2014 with panache. Haxel Princess kicked things off for the band back in January and they’ve only managed to increase their momentum. Back in September, the band first flashed material from Had Ten Dollaz with the Yves Saint Laurent-commissioned title track and now they’ve provided all the supplementary material. While Haxel Promise was good, it suggested a greater promise from a band that was still developing; “Had Ten Dollaz” and “Nurse Ratched” both showed an unexpected acceleration on the attainment of that promise. “Nurse Ratched”, in particular, shows how well the band’s perfected a laid-back atmosphere that still manages to feel fiercely propulsive. Make no mistake, Cherry Glazerr is fully aware of the fact that they’re a band on the rise and they’ll continue to make waves strong enough to match their music’s deceptively powerful undercurrent.

Listen to “Nurse Ratched” below and order Had Ten Dollaz from Suicide Squeeze here.