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Every so often, you come across an album that truly confuses you. Stabscotch's PRISON JAR is one of those albums. Prison Jar sounds like the narrator from Naked Lunch holding court on Instagram Live, ranting into the mic and noodling on a keyboard while a grindcore band plays behind him. On the album, the four … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Stabscotch – XALLELUJAH DÆMON
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### VO2K - A Different Me Concise, off-kilter hip-hop--built around a carefree horn sample and a stumbling drum pattern--featuring easy flows that outline a life spent striving outside the context of the rat race. Video by The Reel Cousins. More from … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 07.08.22
Short Fictions recently released their Lauren Records debut, Every Moment of Every Day. Where the group's last album wended its way toward climate catastrophe, this one takes a direct route to depressed pop euphoria. When I first moved to Pittsburgh, I lived in an overpriced one-bedroom in South Oakland, a few blocks off Forbes Ave. … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Short Fictions – To Leave Forever or Die Alone in South Oakland
A quartet formed in 2020 as an outlet for COVID stress, Bitter Coast released their debut EP in May. The band dropped the EP's second track, "Carry On," as a video last November, but I only got around to checking it out today; better late than never, I suppose. The track bears the hallmarks of … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Bitter Coast – Carry On
A playlist containing some of the music featured on Bored In Pittsburgh this past month https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5FM4R8b0KA4SiynMNgwDCB?si=c2de73f4b4a440c4 June 2022 songs that aren't on Spotify (and where to find them) Trapgurl Rea x Yoko Haze - FNF Remix Water Armor - My Reflection JAXYN - Can't Wait 'Til Dawn (demo)
KELS, fresh off a relocation from Pittsburgh to Atlanta, recently released the carefree "Be Fine." The track contains KELS's signature blend of breezy pop production and force-of-nature singing, deployed this time around in the service of soothing, both for herself and for her listeners. Muted percussion ticks, guitar chords eddy like ripples in a swimming … Continue reading Daily Yinz – KELS – Be Fine
A few (belated) words about a few local tracks that hit the spot last week ### JAXYN - Can't Wait 'Til Dawn (demo) Ron Mist-produced dance floor angst that features searing, electrified vocals backed by drum-circle percussion, dramatic synth stabs, and that blipping sound from "Clumsy." A taste of JAXYN's MOTH LP, coming later this … Continue reading Weekly Wrap Up 06.27.22
Water armor, a side project of FLOOR BABA, sets aside the former's hyper-expressive video game sounds for something a bit more meditative. Where FLOOR BABA's chiptune synths and frenetic beats bring to mind images of sleepover-happy middle schoolers crushing energy drinks, button-mashing XBOX, and hurting themselves on a friend's trampoline, water armor's most recent release, … Continue reading Daily Yinz – water armor – My Reflection
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Reliable Child - Wasted Time Swooning romance rocker that contains enough twang to evoke images of firefly-lit slow dances on dusty dirt roads, but not enough twang to destroy Heinz Field's parking lot. So, just the right amount of twang. … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 06.17.22
Two former Wild Blue Yonderers join forces for an EP of smeary, stripped-down pop music. Fittingly, the EP's first track is called "Two Chord Song," and it's a twee-as-can-be proclamation of devotion that sees Schmeler pledge, "Just know I don't want no one else," to a person with whom she shares moments both carefree ("The … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Betsy Schmeler and Benito Countouris – Two Chord Song
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