Category: Tunes

Boy With Apple Share Come Down

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Swedish band Boy With Apple have a brand new LP on the way this April, and another single should encourage audience to take the proper risk and order the LP. They’re one of the various outfits in the dream pop realm that’s dabbling in the mixture between house music and dream pop, with the beat work taking a dominant role in the structure of this song. It kind of feels like if Portishead were pushing to make a more pop-present vibe, though you can certainly hear where the lineage to indiepop and bedroom pop sink into the mixture, particularly with the way the vocals embrace the ethereal haunting of the tune. Their new album, Navigation, is slated for release on April 24th via Welfare Sounds and Records.

King Tuff Drops Stairway to Nowhere Video

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Sometimes going back to your roots is the simplest way to finding your footing, and it seems like that’s paying off in heaps for King Tuff. In prepping Moo, he’s returned to classic garage rock vibes with hooks built right into tune, taking us all the way back to his earliest power-pop hits! His latest single benefits from that tradition, not to mention that it features my favorite cryptid, bigfoot (though this looks more like ET in a bigfoot costume), who seems to have also found his calling as he shreds on his own terms. Moo is out on Friday via Mup Records/Thirty Tigers, and its sounding like a classic already!

Matthew Squires Pens Tune with Sunk Coast

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Longtime Austin resident Matthew Squires has unfortunately left the confines of our unfair city, but it seems like that’s worked in his favor as his move led to a friendship with Sunk Coast songwriter Zach Totta. Together, they’ve penned this ridiculously majestic tune, that works like a Daniel Johnston tune that got a little bit of studio polish and a slight bit more melody. It very much feels accessible yet in an outsider fashion, and in that, I can’t help but feel its charms, so I keep playing it over and over and over, hoping that you’ll do the exact same as you press play below.

Hey Look Listen Release Country of Fear

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If I’m being honest, I expected a lot more political discourse from the indie music scene, and maybe we’re too busy playing it safe, except if you’re Gwen Katherine of Hey Look Listen. She’s long harbored feelings of unease when it comes to the United States and its unearned feeling of superiority. So, she’s turned that into the latest single from the band’s forthcoming LP, letting her brand of shimmering alt rock deliver her animosity and queries to the listener. The jangling opening catches your ear carefully, with subtle vocal notes before turning the distortion up so that it shreds right through your speakers. The back and forth is playful, which perhaps is the best way to challenge the listener, encouraging them to draw into the track before taking on its message. Look for Dystopian Days on April 17th.

Youth Valley Share Cerberus

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Grecian outfit Youth Valley return this week with a brand new single that hopefully means there’s a new LP on the way. They’re embracing the modernity of shoegaze, reveling in the propulsive nature of a deep rooted bass groove, then letting the track billow all about around it. Moments of serenity are constantly interrupted by cascading guitars shooting across the horizon of the tune. Still, it never feels out of balance, locked into that rhythm and allowing for the noise to resonate and shake you to your core. If you like you’re rock n’ roll hanging on the edges of dreaminess before shattering your ears, then you’ll certainly find your home in this tune.

Ben Auld Announces Loserdom

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Let’s get this out of the way; this new Ben Auld song absolutely rips. It’s heavy in the right spots, poppy when necessary, and if you’re turning it all the way up, you’re likely going to piss off your nextdoor neighbor this morning. In terms of like-minded artists, you’re going to line Ben right up along the side of Teenage Fanclub or Tony Molina. The songwriting definitely takes the pop sensibility of Tony, not to mention the single name moniker strategy. But, the heaviness feels like its steeped in the history of the Teenies. Loud melodic rock n’ roll hasn’t sounded this good! Look for Loserdom via Safe Suburban Home/Repeating Cloud on April 1st.

Sumos Share Luck Single + Announce New EP

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It’s been a few years since we last heard from Manchester’s Sumos, but we welcome them back into the fold this morning as they prep a new EP. Our first sneak peek at the EP has the group holding tight to their pop tendencies, pulling back a bit on some of their noisier elements in favor of a solid hook-laden foundation. I like how it’s seemingly contained a bit, making the song feel a little tighter and controlled, maximizing that chorus’ power to engage with the listener. Their new six-track Luck EP will be out on May 8th courtesy of Meritorio Records and Safe Suburban Home.

Gondos Unleash Stop Calling Video

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A sunny day in Austin makes you feel a bit invigorated, giving you a bounce as you step into Spring; this Gondos tune’s going to be the perfect track to match those vibes. Thumping drum work kicks off the track’s powerful hooks, waiting for the garage rock of the guitars to crash right through your speakers. A wildness will hit you, not unlike what you’d get at an Ohsees show, just filtering pure tenacity and a demonic drive that never lets the listener go, hurtling you towards its close. Turn it up nice and loud and you’ll surely feel the energy coursing through you!

Telephone Romeo Announces Self-Titled LP

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It’s always great to open up a barrage of emails and find one from our friends over in Finland alerting us to new music on their end, like Telephone Romeo. The project is one that’s been bubbling in the Helsinki scene for a bit, working out sounds and textures and finding its way; that day has come to a head with a new single and an announcement of an LP! I liked the guitar sounds here, reminiscent of that last Strokes record, which I admittedly love; it’s an angular vibe rooted in the breadcrumbs of new wave. Here, however, the track has this steadied croon to it, embracing the melodic center of this tootsie roll pop number. Telephone Romeo will be out on June 5th via Soliti Music.

That New Doug Gillard Tune

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It’s probably unfortunate that we have such familiarity with Doug Gillard and his various acts, as this tune feels like a completely different approach, at least in terms of what we’ve gotten from his history. It lives somewhere in this territory between Parquet Courts and later Wire records, maybe even like Cola; it’s post-punk in presentation, though Gillard’s vocal delivery offers up just the faintest hint at the tune’s adherence to a history of love songs that came before it. A lovely little twist in a storied career, leaving us guessing as to what we’ll find when the needle drops on Parallel Stride, out April 24th via Dromedary.

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