fanclubwallet, the indie-pop songwriting challenge of Hannah Choose, proclaims their sophomore album Residing Whereas Dying, out October 24 through Lauren Information. Alongside the announcement, the band releases new single/video, “New Distraction,” out at present.
Written throughout her ongoing expertise with persistent sickness, “New Distraction” captures the stressed seek for one thing – something – to interrupt the monotony. “‘Cmon, I’m ready, for some sort of new distraction’ was a mantra circling my mind these final couple years,” says Choose. “This track got here out of nowhere for me, although. I used to be too anxious to write down a solo guitar lick for this however the band inspired me, and it turned one in all my favorite components. It jogs my memory of a Coldplay B-Facet.”
On Residing Whereas Dying, the query of mortality looms massive. Paradoxically, it’s additionally a file of pristine, sun-drenched pop: Shania Twain with a Casio. The album inhabits a conceptual world of ghosts, haunted homes, the Black Lodge of Twin Peaks, and the bleakness of Fargo – areas of liminality, isolation, and dread. However by way of all that darkness shines one thing human and deeply transferring.
Choose started writing Residing Whereas Dying throughout a interval of intense solitude and sickness, managing Crohn’s illness. “I used to be fascinated about dying quite a bit,” she says. “It felt like I used to be caught. Alive, however in freefall.” Sickness turned its personal sort of limbo. A later surgical procedure introduced a interval of aid – a sudden return to hope and pleasure – just for sickness to return once more. The album captures all three phases: despair, restoration, and the fragility of each.
Neti-Neti—the Brooklyn-based lo-fi ritual music duo of vocalist Amirtha Kidambi (Elder Ones, Mary Halvorson’s Code Lady) and percussionist Matt Evans (a collaborator of Elori Saxl, Ben Seretan, OHYUNG, and others)—announce their second album, Echo of Being / Grace in Rot, out October 10 through Dinzu Artefacts. Recorded in a single day in early 2024 with producer Nick Zanca (Lucy Liyou, Wendy Eisenberg, Extra Eaze) and engineer Sarah Galdes (L’Rain, Bartees Unusual), the album attracts its emotional weight from each private bereavement and the collective grief of our period, reworking mourning right into a shared act of resistance and therapeutic.
Born from improvisation periods sparked by private loss, the challenge has advanced from an intimate trade right into a observe that bridges the private and the political. Lead preview “Grace in Rot,” out at present alongside the announcement, distills the challenge’s distinctive vantage. “‘Grace in Rot’ heaved its method out of us over the past take of the session—an sudden flame of physicality that got here after an extended day and a deep dialogue in regards to the evil and cruelty we witness day by day on the planet,” Evans explains. “It captures an exasperated, bile-like preventing spirit, burning by way of at our most despondent.”
Tamar Berk crafts emotionally uncooked indie rock and alt-pop that blends fuzzed-out guitars, dreamy textures, and lyrics that linger like a thought you may’t shake. It’s a soundtrack to these instances when your ideas are spiraling, the lights are too vivid, and also you’re looking for which means within the mess. Moody, melodic, and wired with a quiet depth. Raised on classical piano and early Disney soundtracks, she later discovered inspiration within the Beatles, David Bowie, Liz Phair, and Elliott Smith—artists who formed her intuition for melody and emotional fact.
Fiercely impartial, she writes, information, and produces her personal music, channeling her internal chaos into songs that discover id, obsession, and the unusual fantastic thing about overthinking. After years within the Chicago, Portland, and San Diego scenes, she launched a solo profession grounded in DIY grit. Her prior 4 album earned reward from KCRW, FADER, CREEM, and SHINDIG, with nominations from the San Diego Music Awards and manufacturing assist from Matt Walker (Morrissey, Rubbish) and Sean O’Keefe (Seaside Bunny, Movement Metropolis Soundtrack).
Her fifth and newest album, OCD (out Sept 5), is a reverb-soaked deep dive into looping ideas, emotional undoing, and the patterns we will’t escape. It’s her boldest and most immersive work but. First single/video drop August 8
Cleveland, OH-based alt/psych-pop artists Radderall and Muzzy Fossa announce their collaborative idea album The Membership Is Open due out October 31 through Wax Mage Information and out there for pre-save now. Alongside the announcement, the duo shares two new tracks, the double A-sides and music video, “Motion pictures” / “Each Minute” out now.
Tomorrow night time, Radderall shall be in Columbus at Bee Collective as they kick off a string of Midwest and East Coast dates by way of November. With the forthcoming challenge, the Radderall reside outfit will carry to the stage the challenge’s expansive, surreal, synthy soundscapes that blur the road between irony and sincerity.
The Membership Is Open is a conceptual journey constructed round a narrative of duality, and the seek for a legendary venue referred to as The Membership: two characters navigating the stress between chasing short-term dopamine—by way of vainness, fleeting love, or ego—and pursuing one thing significant, like actual love, sincere connections, friendship, and self-discovery. Using the naming conference R.A.M. (Radderall & Muzzy Fossa), the album frames a story of resilience and development—symbolizing resurrection, transformation, and the flexibility to search out renewal after destruction.
Radderall (Zach Taneyhill) & Muzzy Fossa (Nathan Hunt)’s work is theatrical and immersive but deeply human, mixing analog appeal, R&B-inflected grooves, psych-pop storytelling, and classic synth textures right into a sound that’s unusual, surreal, and emotionally resonant. As Taneyhill describes it, the album is “a world unto itself—a spot we constructed so we might get misplaced and possibly discover a bit which means within the course of.”
Rapper Kosha Dillz has created his personal controversial information community anthem inthe track and music video AlJewzeera, a hard-hitting “Rage Towards The Machine” model anthem meets Beastie Boy sort file of which couldn’t come at a extra consists of the loss of life of journalist Anas Al Sharif, accused of being a Hama terrorist working for Al Jazeera.. Amidst the controversy of Greta Thunberg crusing to Gaza, stolen humanitarian, ravenous youngsters, Israel blocking all of it on the identical time, Iran bombs the town of Tel Aviv, this video will make you are feeling and query every thing you understand at present on the battle. Why? It can almost definitely change tomorrow, and never for good causes. Since we wrote this press launch, 7 extra “journalists” have been killed. However it is usually reported that they have been in a hospital turned Hamas compound.
The parody identify and intense video, which was shot outdoors buildings destroyed by a ballistic missile a couple of weeks in the past, consists of varied inexperienced display screen results representing what is taken into account to be a manipulation of propaganda, in any other case often known as Pallywood. As provocative as it’s, the general message begs to query: why are folks utilizing faux photos to alter public picture in a struggle with so many unanswered questions, but additionally the supply of many home points in rising anti-Semitism. The tip scene lifts up the inexperienced display screen as every thing is eerily regular on the seashore, which is an ironic show of resilience for Israelis who appear to function as if nothing out of the peculiar is occurring
The opening strains of AlJewzeera show to be highly effective.
“Me too until a Jew f#$ok a feminist, bugging on the federal government no adverse October seventh sh#t, that is for anyone that I can’t diss, anyone from a Rogan to a Candace,” declaring how varied folks have cashed in on the media hype of the Israel-Gaza Conflict. Whilst we sort this, sirens are sounding throughout Tel Aviv as Yemen shoots a Ballistic Missile into the airspace.
After a quick hiatus and a lineup reset, songwriter Avery Springer returns as Retirement Occasion with new EP Nothing To Hear With out A Sound, out now.
Tracked at Kind One Studios with engineer/producer Simon Small (The Entrance Bottoms, Pool Youngsters), the four-song EP kicks off Retirement Occasion’s “grownup chapter”: hook-forward, fuzz-bright indie rock that turns second-guesses into sing-alongs. From the hard-charging EP opener “Sixth Sense” to the intimate and earnest nearer “Transferring Ahead,” Nothing To Hear With out A Sound is an irresistibly catchy re-entry that bridges the band’s DIY roots with a sharper, full-spectrum sound.
“Whereas all of those songs stem from completely different instances in my life, the widespread thread that brings them collectively is the anxiousness of time passing and life altering,” says Springer. “It felt pure pulling these songs collectively and ending them as a bunch. Unexpectedly, revisiting and finishing them collectively has given this fear a way of closure.”
Pulling from concepts sketched at completely different factors within the band’s life and completed beneath Springer’s present imaginative and prescient, Nothing To Hear With out A Sound is the challenge’s first launch with out the unique lineup behind cult-favorite LPs Considerably Literate and Runaway Canine. Springer steps absolutely into architect mode right here, writing and monitoring every thing however Sam Brown’s drums, channeling the challenge’s punchy emo DNA into tighter preparations, cleaner strains, and bolder dynamics. The outcome feels unmistakably like Retirement Occasion – simply older, wiser, and turned up a notch.
Los Angeles intersectional, genre-bending challenge Fortunate Horse Crimson proclaims their debut, self-titled album shall be launched on September 26 through Shuga Information. Right this moment’s information is heralded with the brand new double single launch of “Midday Moon” and “Whiskey.”
“Midday Moon” is a track that swims in humid baths of juxtaposition, the lyrics are unbridled, flowing prose reeling up towards the sliding heat of metal guitar. Singer Bunny Gaubert describes at present’s single as, “A swampy summer season tune. We needed to create a catchy refrain with group vocals à la Courtney Barnett or Kurt Vile” — Stream.
And on the opposite facet, “Whiskey” is a tameless country-rock track about coming again to an previous lover as a result of you may’t get the identical love wherever else. Gaubert sings, “I heard you nicknamed me whiskey” as she accuses an previous flame of needing her hassle — Stream.
Chloe Navarre emerges from the backlit static of America. They’re identified for collaborations that blur the road between regional cryptid lore and cult legend—most notably with Phil Thomas Katt, Pensacola’s underground pop oracle, and the spectral Southwestern collective THE GRIN LINES. Collectively, they’ve channeled transmissions which are without delay real, severe, humorous, and deliberate. Navarre by no means sacrifices ambiance for affectation, sustaining a playful, open-minded method to songwriting that favors instinct over pretense. “Analemma” the standout single from the upcoming Periwinkle is out now
“QUE CE SOIT CLAIR” is the second single from Paul Kalkbrenner’s new album THE ESSENCE and has turn into a fan favourite at festivals and in membership units. It’s a collaboration with Belgian celebrity Stromae (whose actual identify can also be Paul), constructed on a long-standing historical past: again in 2009, Kalkbrenner created a remix for Stromae’s single “Te Quiero”. Now, they meet once more as equals – previous buddies who’ve by no means misplaced contact over time.
“QUE CE SOIT CLAIR” is among the album’s most direct tracks: pounding four-to-the-floor kicks, pulsating synths, and Stromae’s intense spoken-word vocals. The title interprets to “Simply to be clear…” – and that’s precisely what the monitor is about. A love that is aware of no boundaries. No nations, no origins, no classes. What issues is the connection between two folks.
For many who desire their juice with Heavy Pulp, rock band The Technicolors at present launch their fourth album — out now through SoundOn. Heavy Pulp is the kind of file that doesn’t lower one single nook. A band cast by a decade and a half out on the highway with varied tasks (most lately BRONCHO and Seaside Climate), The Technicolors took their time placing collectively a sonically large album that drips with the arrogance of understanding precisely who they’re, in an ecosystem that’s as soon as once more primed for the dominance of rock music — Take heed to Heavy Pulp.
Their first album since 2021, their time away was much less of a hiatus and extra of an opportunity to create very intentionally. Writing the file over the past two years, The Technicolors needed to bodily be within the room with the creatives they have been working with. Heavy Pulp couldn’t have taken form with out the manufacturing expertise of GRAMMY-nominated Robert Adam Stevenson (Queens of the Stone Age, The Kills), BRONCHO’s Nathan Worth on drums, and Madison Cunningham who’s featured on “First Class to Nowhere.”
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