Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk–Burritos
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Ambient
FFO: Animal Collective, Deerhunter, My Morning Jacket
Allow Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk to wrap you in their warm, silken blanket of thought-provoking ambiance.
Burritos is a crafty collection of acoustic-driven cavernous chants reminiscent of early Animal Collective.
Bigs Ups–Before a Million Universes
Genre: Post Hardcore, Alternative Rock
FFO: Slint, Shellac, Fugazi
New York’s Post Hardcore hooligans Big Ups have returned with a volcanic LP erupting with razor sharp intensity comparable to the likes of Slint‘s landmark Spiderland.
Give this album a spin if you long for a wild ride of seemingly nostalgic post hardcore goodness.
Black Beach–Shallow Creatures
Genre: Garage Rock, Noise Rock, Punk Rock, Lo-fi
FFO: Ty Segall, Fuzz, Jesus Lizard
Local garage rock trio Black Beach prove their worth and capture the vibrant nature of their live performance with their debut LP Shallow Creatures.
Hailing from Middleborough, Massachusetts, these guys have come a long way from their humble beginnings covering Blink 182 to the raw, punk-driven, fuzzy rock n’ roll you hear today.
Make sure you grab this LP and catch them in an intimate live setting before they skyrocket into the successful state they deserve.
Church Of Misery–And Then There Were None
Genre: Doom Metal, Psychedalic Rock
FFO: Black Sabbath, Boris, Electric Wizard
Tokyo doom rockers Church of Misery flaunt their profiency of gritty sabbath worship with their latest LP.
Nothing necessarily new here but nevertheless And Then They Were None showcases Tatsu Mikami’s preeminence in combining psychadelic rock and harsh doom.
Day Wave–Hard to Read EP
Genre: Indie Rock, Dream Pop
FFO: Diiv, Turnover, Beach Fossils, Wild Nothing
Oakland, California’s Jackson Phillips has returned to serenade you with his sophomore EP Hard to Read.
Phillips continues to expand his established craft of ripe, tender, dream pop influenced indie rock similar to the soundscapes painted by groups such as Wild Nothing or Turnover.
Hard to Read is a smooth selection of soothing seduction catering to any human with functioning ear drums.
EERA–Self Titled EP
Genre: Indie,Folk
FFO: Chelsea Wolfe, Daughter
I implore you all to immediately listen to this Norwegian songstress’ debut four song offering to the world.
Eera applies a sonically layered, bassy take on chamber folk to serve as an accurate dark setting for her alluring vocal performance.
Guerilla Toss–Eraser Stargazer
Genre: Funk, Punk Rock
FFO: The Donkey Kong Soundtrack
If you’re looking for something musically that is truly creative, refreshing, and unorthodox, this is the album for you.
Guerilla Toss is an extremely bizarre combination of punk and funk that producing tunes that could properly function as the soundtrack to a Donkey Kong game.
Known primarily for their eccentric live shows, the strange New York ensemble manages to capture every peculiar characteristic of their performance on their latest LP.
Inverloch–Distance|Collapse
Genre: Doom Metal, Death Metal
FFO: diSEMBOWELMENT, Mournful Congregation
It’s been four years since Australian Doom quartet Inverloch dropped their Dusk|Subside EP.
Distance|Collapse is a ferocious beast woken from a long hibernation refreshed and ready to annihilate everything in it’s path.
Inverloch features ex members diSEMBOWELMENT so their mastery of balancing speed, atmosphere, and doom-laced Death metal comes as no surprise.
Kendrick Lamar–untitled unmastered.
Genre: Hip Hop, Rap
FFO: Freddie Gibbs, Lupe Fiasco
When Kendrick Lamar recorded last year’s hip hop masterpiece To Pimp a Butterfly it is believed the process took him three years to fully record and that up to 60 songs were tracked.
This week, Kendrick decided to suprise the world and drop an 8 song EP containing some of these forgotten songs encompassing free jazz, funk, and soul-laced hip hop.
Sound of Ceres–Nostalgia for Infinity
Genre: Dream Pop, Ambient
FFO: Cocteau Twins, Candy Claws, Purity Ring
Sound of Ceres is a new, Colorado-based supergroup featuring members of Candy Claws, Apples In Stereo, and The Drums.
Their debut Nostalgia for Infinity is an artistically-layered achievement featuring “orbits” of both spacey and dreamy soundscapes.
Smoke DZA–He Has Risen
Genre: Hip Hop, Rap
FFO: Big KRIT, Wiz Khalifa
The latest LP from New York recording artist Smoke Dza contains authentic, tight flow as well as atmospheric top knotch production delving into elements of jazz, soul, and funk.
Wolveserpent–Aporia:Kala:Ananta
Genre: Drone, Black Metal, Doom Metal
FFO: Sunn O))), Jupiter
The latest release from Relapse‘s Wolvserpent is a single track spanning across 40 minutes of vast, atmopsheric terrains.
This epic piece is filled with movements and crescendos as horrifying and spine chilling as they are beautiful.
Yeti Lane–L’aurore
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Shoegazing, Electronic
FFO: Deerhunter, MGMT
French psychrock duo Yeti Lane follow up 2012’s The Echo Show with the monstrous, reverb-drowned LP L’Aurore.
The two piece continues to demonstrate their profiency with both electronic and guitar-heavy instrumentation releasing a droney, psychadelic, shoegaze influenced monolith of an album.
Yndi Halda-Under Summer
Genre: Post Rock, Emo
FFO: Caspian, Foxing, American Football
Under Summer is the sophomore LP from England’s post rock act Yndi Halda ten years in the making.
It is a simplistic, yet multi-layered work of art making an abundant yet skillfully carried out usage of string sections helping to create its beautiful, thought-provoking tone.
Vocals are used this time around but serve as an instrument in itself blending comfortably into the record’s ambience.