New Music Classic Monday Album Reviews

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Dusty Notes – Meat Puppets

Teenage Fanclub but like not as good? This album isn’t particularly interesting, but its well produced and executed dad rock. Sea of Heartbreak is a goofy lil track tho, probably the highlight. Ill revisit when im 40 and maybe ill like it.

SASAMI – SASAMI

love this!!! Keys player for cherry glazerr. Imagine if bedroom pop was still sad but a little less sad and had more going on. Go listen! 10/10 my pick of the week. “Morning Comes” is kinda groovy gets my heart beating on a little bit.

Cheers – The Wild Reeds

Indie rock no surprises pretty chill kinda stuff but nothing exciting like Hop Along with way less instrumentation. Feels sort of like a distillation of all the big Indie Dream Pop stuff floating around right now.

Hypnos – Xeno & Oaklander

Tangerine Dream-ey stuff, might get added to my study music playlists. Reminds me of that weird midi album Dr. Dog made. Kinda cool! This album kind of sounds like the nightmare windows 98 would have.

L.A.’s Got Me Down – Justus Proffit

If I didn’t know who made this and just heard it randomly I would have thought it was Elliot Smith. HOWEVER, this isn’t some Greta Van Fleet style soulless ripoff; Justus Proffit delivers on this record with a sound that has one foot in 90’s alt and the other foot in contemporary dream pop. Good record, “Split Into” is a favourite track of mine, and I also highly recommend the split EP that Justus Proffit did with Jay Som.

Slow Century – I Was A King

More wannabe Teenage Fanclub, this album even sounds like every track was written while listening to Teenage Fanclub’s Here. Nothing remarkable, but the track “Bubble” shows a little bit of life.

Liv – Daniel Blumberg, Hebronix

Absolutely entrancing. Faux noise bands like Daughters wish they sounded 5% like this good. A rare case of music having an aspect of fear; if a Southern Gothic story had a soundtrack this would be it. This music demands your attention and uses it well.