Another week has passed you by and you have no new music to show for it. We don’t feel like we need to tell you how depressing that is, but here we are saving you from the brink once again. Here are six new tracks that have been hand picked by our staff to help you maintain even a shred of relevancy. You can thank us when you start feeling like yourself again.
Cursive ‘Botch Job’
Cursive’s highly anticipated follow-up to 2019’s excellent ‘Get Fixed’ ’ is set to drop in less than two months. From what we’ve heard, the new record, ‘Destructor,’ is set to continue the band’s creative renaissance. The latest single, ‘Botch Job,’ is a whirling journey through walls of dissonant guitars and anxiety inducing rhythms. It’s a white knuckle ride that culminates in a sound that is unequivocally Cursive at their peak.
Tim Heidecker ‘Well’s Running Dry’
When actor and comedian Tim Heidecker isn’t spinning up confounding surrealist satire, he’s crafting woozy, nostalgic, and vulnerable tunes. His new album, ‘Slipping Away,’ is set to release in October, and its lead single ‘Well’s Running Dry’ promises a continuation of the introspective material that has become Heidecker’s trademark since 2020’s ‘Fear of Death.’ It will still make you laugh, but in that awkward way you do when you are trying to brush off your feelings.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard ‘Le Risque’
Mr. Gizzo and the Lizzy Wiz, as the kids like to call them, have just released their 1,843,506th single by our count. ‘Le Risque’ finds the band somehow continuing to broaden their palate, this time tapping into a sound that can only be described as a honky tonk band unknowingly dropping acid before their dive bar set. The single comes with the announcement of the band’s 26th studio album, ‘Flight B741.’ Jesus Christ.
Fake Fruit ‘Más O Menos’
Next month, Fake Fruit will release their sophomore LP, ‘Mucho Distrust.’ It follows their widely heralded 2021 self-titled debut album. Whereas that record was cut with multiple lineups across several cities, their latest marks the first with a stable and consistent lineup. While that first collection was incredible, it appears that tightening up the lineup is proving to add a refreshing intensity and cohesion to Hannah D’Amato’s already flawless writing.
Laughter ‘The Wheel’
Because neither you or any of your friends are cool, there’s a good chance you have yet to hear South London’s indie outfit Laughter. This is a mistake you should rectify immediately before we lose all respect for you. Their latest single, ‘The Wheel,’ is a fuzz-drenched masterpiece dipped in ‘90s shoegaze revelry. It has more riffs than we even knew were legal to put in a song, and this is without even mentioning all the dreamy hooks.
The Get Up Kids ‘Holiday – Demo’
We don’t mean to put a damper on your typical youthful demeanor, but The Get Up Kids’ breakthrough album ‘Something To Write Home About’ is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. That’s a quarter of a century, and further evidence that you are getting nothing but older. To help soothe the horrors of time, the band is releasing a deluxe edition of the record with a whole heap of demos and outtakes, including the recently released demo of album opener, ‘Holiday.’ We’ll be listening all day while trying not to think of our ex from college.
Look, we get it. You’re probably ‘too busy’ to click the play button on any of these songs. That’s why we’ve hand crafted a playlist for you. It doesn’t just have these songs on it, either. It has every song we’ve ever written about this year, and will continue to grow until it becomes so long and disorienting that we get banned from Spotify. You can click here to check it out unless you’d prefer to continue not expanding your musical repertoire.