Wylderness Return with New Single
Welsh outfit Wylderness have been consistently dropping great pop hits since we stumbled upon them several years ago, and their latest single continues in that tradition, even offering a glimpse at where the band go from here. The balance between light guitar notes and heavy riffs is perfect, weaving them together like some dreamy rock quilt of perfection. In that, they manage to use that balance to keep a steadied pace that allows the tune to create a natural tension; they hold that feeling tightly, waiting to unleash it until after the halfway mark of the tune where things spin and crash beautifully. They’ve got a new Safe Mode EP on the horizon, so we’ll keep you posted!
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After a long absence from recording, Canadian lot Pike are back with a couple of new songs you should get into while you can. I like the straddling pop styles of the tune below; it kind of seems like it’s playing a musical hopscotch, bopping from side to side in the speakers. Erik Hamilton and Katie Laine trade vocal spars, often overlapping one another to build this textured melody that gets cut into pieces as the song takes on a more angular approach in the track’s latter half. If you’re looking for a solid vibe of cool, then you can’t get much better than pressing play on the new single below.
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Perhaps it’s because we spent so much of our young adulthood listening to TV on the Radio singles, but any time I hear a song featuring 
Pretty solid wee of new music last week, and we got to as much as our time allowed. We even managed to start getting some of our SXSW coverage together, as the festival is somehow just over the horizon; RayRay got an interview up with Population II you should check out. We even got back on some album stream coverage, making sure to have the homies in Constant Follower and Daily Worker up there. We continue as the one-site hype machine for Sharp Pins Radio DDR reissue, but there some of my favorite acts also returned with their own new jams to grab us, like Dumb Things and Jetstream Pony. I even jumped on the Sports Team train with their latest single. Get into it below.
It’s an interesting Friday of album releases, with some stark contrasts over here at ATH. We’ve got some heavy vibes from the new Men record, right along some contemplative pop from Andy Bell, a bit of pastoral folk from Constant Follower…then some faves like Austin’s Daily Worker mixed up in the middle. Think you’ll find some joy by clicking play on any number of the great records hanging down below.
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