Last Week’s Jams (5.12 – 5.16)

If you just look at last week’s collection in our Album Streams post, you can see it was certainly a busy week out there; there were no fewer than six albums that I adored, whether it was new Gotobeds or High Water Marks or Artificial Go, there was plenty to browse through. But, that was just the albums, and didn’t even cover the great music that popped up on the single side of things. I mean, there was new Jeanines, Ryli, Lightheaded and Whitneys Playland...all of which should have you cranking up your speakers. Some good Austin (and adjacent love) for acts like Little Mazarn, San Gabriel, Gustave Ochoa and Adrian Quesada, so doing our part on the local scene. There’s just too much good stuff out there, thus, you’re required to press play and space out for an hour.

 

Safe Houses Release I’ll Be Bad to You

I’m having a hard time listening to anything other than this Safe Houses single today, as it’s got just enough attitude and rock to remind me that I’m grasping at hipness straws, but also offers a brightness and charm that correlates to wear I’d like my brain to be. When you press play on the track, you get instant gratification with clanging guitar riffs and stomping drums, just before it opens up to a more kind of paisley jangle that sets the verse up for a delighting swing from the vocals. You go back and forth, back and forth, stomp and pop, crashing organ, and each time the layer of vocals greets your ear, your face breaks out into a huge grin. Go on, try it on.

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