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Experience the pop-punk quartet's latest EP In 3D. "Country Boi" is a surprisingly heartrending finish to an EP that features Bill & Ted-esque time travel, "Jupiter" rhymed with "stupider," and a song called "Untitled Banger." The closing track's guitars are sweaty-basement-show anthemic, and Dr. Phosphorus' vocal melody is rousing as hell, but the lyrics, which … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Urban Doctors – Country Boi
Piano and string music that evokes the sensation of being lost at sea. I just finished watching the first season of The Terror, and I don't think I've ever seen a show commit so fully to slow-motion trainwreckery. It presents a fictionalized account of the 1845 Franklin expedition, which disappeared into ice as it searched … Continue reading Daily Yinz – A & Ben Sonenblum – Concerto action for piano no.4: 1st movement
A few words about a few more local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Luna Moth - So Cold, Too Hot Towering synth peaks that rise jagged as you approach the final boss battle, which ends up being against yourself. More from Luna Moth ### brookhaze - glass armonica Anthemic blur that sounds … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 08.30.24
SWANSONGS contains the group's final two tracks. After many years playing together, Forestry Division (fka Andre Costello and the Cool Minors) are calling it quits. They leave SWANSONGS--comprising the tracks "Red Wave" and "Idaho Potatoes"--as their final statement. The songs exemplify the crisp chime that the group has perfected over more than a decade, moving … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Forestry Division – Idaho Potatoes
The black metal act's debut is Calamitous Manifestation of Flesh. Do you want to hear an entire solar system explode? If so, you're in luck, because Wretched Fixation's music radiates a heat more scalding than that of a supernova. Calamitous Manifestation of Flesh is as strange as it is brutal; the album warps the pummeling … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Wretched Fixation – Shattered Reality Of Your Birth
The punk trio's latest release is BIGGER. Big Baby's debut album, Big Baby's Big Fucking Record on a Cassette Tape, used clipped bursts of impish punk to tell the story of Big Baby--that classic bildungsroman arc in which a young hero ventures into public, meets a figure called Meat Man, goes to a dive bar … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Big Baby – Violence With You
LIBERATION is the second installation in Madame Dolores's four-part naeama series. Where CHAOS--naeama's first segment--felt like a primordial cry of anguish, LIBERATION hits a bit differently. There's pain to be found here for sure, but there's a hopeful streak running through it, one that looks at the world and says, "I know everything is fucked, … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Madame Dolores – you can call me CREEPY
A few words about a few more local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Mula Man - Title Fight Drums rattle, bass booms, and horns blare walkout-style as Mula Man swaggers to his place in the ring, ready to challenge all-comers. Follow Mula Man on Instagram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT9xWb2Rnec ### Lobby Corp. Ltd. - Track … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 08.16.24
The second single released in support of the upcoming WHALE FALL. "DESSERT HANDS // DESERT SANDS," like so much of 1000z of Beez's music, addresses not a person, but the absence of a person, somebody who's disappeared and may never return. You wouldn't immediately know it from the music, which drapes a steady rhythm in … Continue reading Daily Yinz – 1000z of Beez – DESSERT HANDS // DESERT SANDS
The punk quartet's debut is BLIGHTER DAYS AHEAD. BLIGHTER DAYS AHEAD's album art--four people using a cop car as a big flashing Yule log--sets the stage for opening track "INNER CITY BLACKOUT." Backed by racing drums, power tool guitar riffs, and laser pointer bass lines, vocalist Oyo Ellis conjures images of chaotic rebellion. We're introduced … Continue reading Daily Yinz – COMPLETE FUCKER – INNER CITY BLACKOUT
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