We’ve made it through yet another week with at least some semblance of sanity left. To ensure you burn off that extra little bit while simultaneously reeling with the damage Daylight Savings Time has done to your circadian rhythm, you might want to start listening to some new music. Here are five new tracks our staff has been listening to while grumbling and falling asleep at their desks.
Feeble Little Horse ‘This Is Real’
If you stumbled upon a VHS tape that had been partially eaten by rats, attempted to fix it with glitter glue, and then popped in a barely functioning VCR, you would probably get close to the sound of Feeble Little Horse’s ‘This Is Real.’ That’s a compliment, by the way. The Pittsburgh quartet’s first single since their incredible 2023 debut album cranks their beloved eccentricities up to a thousand, resulting in some of the nastiest shoegaze you’ve heard in your life.
Propagandhi ‘At Peace’
OH SHIT! Propagandhi is back! It’s been eight years since we’ve felt so lectured by a band, and goddamn did we miss it. ‘At Peace,’ the lead single and title track from their forthcoming album, is a blistering and triumphant return for the Canadian punk legends. The riffs are so sharp you’ll feel like you got a papercut from an anti-capitalist pamphlet. Play this one loud while thinking of ways to massively disrupt your local city council meeting.
Stander ‘Exhaustion’
If you’ve been finding yourself awake at 3 a.m., brain buzzing with dread, thinking the only thing that can help you is depressing post-hardcore music, then Stander’s “Exhaustion” is here to validate your worst instincts. It’s a relentless, churning mess of jagged riffs and raw-throated vocals – the perfect soundtrack for pacing around your apartment while your neighbors wonder when you started running an unlicensed fight club. By the end, you’re either cathartically drained or ready to punch through drywall. Either way, progress!
Lauren Mayberry ‘Sorry, Etc. Etc. feat. Joe Talbot’
You wouldn’t think that combining the worlds of CHVRCHES and IDLES would work, considering the only aesthetic similarities between the two are the unnecessary all caps spelling of their names, but yet, here we are. ‘Sorry, Etc. Etc.’ first appeared on Lauren Mayberry’s debut solo album in December, and was selected for a grittier rework after a proposed collaboration with Joe Talbot. It’s a more urgent version of the original, and plays out like a rom-com in which the main characters spend the first half of the movie arguing with each other.
Ty Segall ‘Fantastic Tomb’
Imagine someone remade the movie ‘Speed.’ Instead of having to keep the bus going at 50 mph, though, the protagonist has to keep recording music or an unrelated bus somewhere will explode – the plot isn’t great, but anyway. The star would likely be Ty Segall, who seems incapable of not churning shit out. After releasing two albums last year, he’s back with another: ‘Possession.’ The lead single ‘Fantastic Tomb’ is a ‘70s style doozy, which should surprise no one.
If you’re still looking for a jolt of new music to blast while having no idea what it, like, ‘really even is, man,’ look no further! We’ve compiled all of these and others into a handy playlist so you can be even more sluggish for the next few days. Check it out below: