Living Hour Embrace “The Feels” on ‘Someday Is Today’
Canadian dream popsters Living Hour capture grief with sluggish tempos, minor key chord progressions, and numbing moments of disassociation on Someday Is Today.
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Producer Eyedress Is Everything Right With Bedroom Pop on ‘Full Time Lover’
Eyedress’ Full Time Lover takes up-to-date pop sensibilities and keeps them moving in new ways that are not just creatively fruitful but genuinely fun.
Triathalon’s R&B-Adjacent Jams Get a Bit Samey on ‘Spin’
Adam Intrator’s breathy vocals often mesh quite well with Triathalon’s music on Spin. That uniformity in style can also make every Triathalon track sound the same.
Fanclubwallet’s Debut LP Has the Witty Exuberance of a Comic Book
Fanclubwallet’s first record, You Have Got to Be Kidding Me, litters cartoonish bedroom-pop melee with sober self-examinations.
Elliott Page and Mark Rendall Break Out the Omnichord to Spread Joy
The eponymous three-song EP Mark and Elliott is simply the most fun, upbeat musical way possible to end off a summer we all desperately needed.
Lucca Dohr’s “Winter’s Coming” Takes Broken Hearts Beachside
Los Angeles’ bedroom popster Lucca Dohr turns the page on summer and romance with “Winter’s Coming”, his first single since 2020’s Norwich EP.
Drug Store Romeos’ “Vibrate” Exists in an Otherworldly Dimension
The final single from Drug Store Romeos’ debut album, The World Within Our Bedrooms, is a loopy, ethereal haze of cryptic phrases.
Tim Atlas’ “Water” Floats Along in the World of a Troubled Mind
Expanding his signature sound of psychedelic R&B, the last single from Tim Atlas’ new sun-kissed EP QUOTA shimmers with melancholy.
Black Nash’s Self-Titled Album Is Weird, Catchy Psych-Pop
Fresh out of the Army, Black Nash (aka Jody Smith) holed up at home and made an album full of odd, utterly charming bedroom pop songs.
Cut Worms Keeps Mining the Past on ‘Nobody Lives Here Anymore’
Despite its ambitious concept, Cut Worms' Nobody Lives Here Anymore is as much a product of nostalgic consumer culture as the society it criticizes.
Sotto Voce’s ‘Your Husband, the Governor’ Is Beautifully Twisted DIY Indie Folk-rock
Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Gabos releases another odd, gorgeous home studio recording under the moniker Sotto Voce.
‘Transgender Street Legend Vol. 2’ Finds Left at London “At My Peak and Still Rising”
"[Pandemic lockdown] has been a detriment to many people's mental health," notes Nat Puff (aka Left at London) around her incendiary, politically-charged new album, "but goddamn it if I haven't been making some bops here and there!"