Last Week’s Jams, Today (6.27 – 7.1)

Our coverage last week was pretty steady, and we got to hear some great new stuff…so here we are with our weekly recap to start off your post holiday blues at work. We got some great ATH favorites offering up new stuff, with Winter and Phantom Handshakes getting fresh tunes out there. We also ran some great footage from Constant Follower of their performance atop a monument in Scotland, which I highly suggest you getting into, so I threw a jam in there from that performance. Lot of great stuff, with over an hour of jams to whet your whistle this morning.

Rush to Relax Prep Misli

If you’re solely an anglophone, then I’ll just come right out and say you should skip over this post about Slovenian outfit Rush to Relax. Honestly, I don’t have a clue what they’re saying, but the emotional draw still supersedes, dripping with sharp guitar pop. The drums have this little bob to them, occasionally kicking in with an extra little high step, so you’ve got the groove established. Various guitar lines come into play throughout; you get some dancing jangles, almost tickling guitar notes, but then as the song unfolds, those lines become more elaborate, accented by sweeping string arrangements to fill it all out. Misli is the name of the group’s new LP, coming our way August 31st via Hidden Bay/Look Back and Laugh/Pop Depresija.