For years, I’ve preached that Yo La Tengo will usher in the apocalypse and bring our time on Earth to a violent, fiery end, and you’ve all (repeatedly) laughed at me. Well who’s laughing now, jerks?
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Detroit’s Protomartyr are returning on 10/9 with The Agent Intellect. Judging by this song, it seems like they’re amenable to stretching out their scrappy post-punk into longer, bleaker dirges.
Another short but sweet one from Philly’s Shelf Life.
I’m about two weeks too late on this one, but the message remains the same whether it’s the Fourth of July or not.
A short but charming one for you this week: Dave Davison does a solo take on his band’s “The Ongoing Horrible” and crams a lot of interesting guitar work into a two minute video.
Big Noble, which counts Interpol’s Daniel Kessler among its members, make music that sounds like the intro to an epic song, but then somebody keeps hitting the back button on your CD player right before the first verse kicks in. It’s a sound that lends itself especially well to the videos that the band has been steadily releasing since First Light came out earlier this year.
It took a while for Slowdive to get their due, but now I can see their fingerprints on a seemingly infinite amount of bands taking cues from Creation Record’s noisiest, most soaring moments. It’s almost intimidating how many great new bands are emerging that could be classified as “shoegaze” by some measure or another. Fake Palms have a bit of a sinister undercurrent to them, and remind me a lot of the claustrophic psych of Lorelle Meets the Obsolete. Definitely worth paying attention to.
Ultimate Painting features members of Manchester-based Mazes and contemporary Slumberland torchbearers Veronica Falls. They put out an extremely underrated self-titled debut last year, and they’re already about to follow it up with Green Lanes. “Sanctioned Blues” finds the duo back in their VUish wheelhouse, with just enough bluesy twang to needle itself into your brain and stay there all day.
Things got pretty heady on my SOTD yesterday, so let’s go with the polar opposite for today. 100% pop from Skylar Spence, nee St. Pepsi, with the perfect video accompaniment.
Got a half hour to kill? Morphing Turkish psych from Insanlar, who I know next to nothing about. So, uh, sorry about that, but enjoy the song!