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HELLO.

Here’s some new songs to lighten your day.

1) PEACE//BLOODSHAKE (click through to listen, obv)

Who remembers when BBlood was just a demo? Three people, yeah? Well now it’s all grown up, with the title of ‘Hottest Track in the World’ in its arms. BLOODSHAKE stays close to its demo’s roots, a fresh indie-slacker sound with chirping guitars and drums and a breakdown and all dat stuff we love.

2) SWIM DEEP//HONEY

B-town babes Swim Deep offer up some new Summery sounds. It’s a pit more shiny and polished and chill than ‘King City’, but still coated with shimmery pop. (“OO OO BABY.”)

3) PEERS//NIGHTDRIVING

I’ve only just heard this, so I dunno how old it actually is but I DON’T CARE. This is a guitar-heavy ball of that nostalgic sound. You know the one I mean. ‘Nightdriving’  features dramatic vocals, great build-ups and an overall ‘YEAH LIFE IS GOOD’ vibe. 

I’ve decided to do a round up of things I’ve enjoyed this week:

Starting with GuMM

LIONHEART is their new single, and is filled TO THE BRIM of shoegazing Summer-y ness, swirling soundscape and melodic “GARAGE/GAZE.” Absolutely lovely stuff.

My main man, Willy Moon, also has a new song out. REJOICE. RAILROAD TRACK is an epic of a stomping Western song, complete with SPOOKY BELLS, rain sound effects and whistling.  

PASSION PIT’S Gossamer has been making my brain happy since its release, and CONSTANT CONVERSATIONS, although not really breaking any new ground since ‘Manners’, is still a pretty chill song. (I’m trying so hard not to break out into saying “CHILL SUMMER VIBES” every time I write about something.)

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SPLASHH, like a little baby Wavves, have been making me want to run about in a field wearing a tie-dye t-shirt for the past few weeks. The energy and fuzzed out vocals/guitars/overall music of NEED IT is electric, and downright FUN. 

- That is my weekly round up. Have a BLAST *thumbs up*

-R

Gaggle’s new album is streaming, if you head on over the Guardian and give it a listen. If you like the idea of a (about) 34-strong all-female choir combined with a feminist mindset (AND WHO DOESN’T), then my standout tracks are Crows and Army of Birds. LOVELY STUFF/A BIT SCARY WALL OF NOISE BUT OVERALL STILL VERY GOOD.

‘An Awesome Wave’ is unpredictable. It transcends all comparison to any other album out right now, “Tessellate” is introduced by dramatic pianos and a smattering of the stuttering drums that feature throughout many of the songs on this album. ‘Breezeblocks’ is exciting (the DRUMS. YES.) and ‘Dissolve Me’ is wonderfully Summery, filled with fresh folk harmonies.

The album itself is dotted with interludes, and while these have the potential to be annoying breaks in the album, it actually glues the record together, blurring it into something electrifying.

Download: all of it. Just DO IT PLEASE. IT’S SO GOOD.

“Relief washes over me in an awesome wave.”- Patrick Bateman

ESSER IS BACK.

Rockfeedback featured the video for his new song, ‘Emnity’. It’s very fashionable, and he seems to have ditched the previous pop style offerings for a more of a Horrors-esque synthy Krautrock sound. Welcome back.

Another one I HAD to add in is the new single from Gaggle. There’s nothing I like more than an innovative all-female choir. ‘Army of Birds’ is beyond comparison, it’s dark, it’s bassy, it’s heavy, it’s EXCELLENT. I LOVE GAGGLE.