New Music – February 25, 2022

Bitter Branches, the newest project of my favorite “aggressive music” singer Tim Singer, has a new record out and it’s as thrilling as you’d expect. Sasami also channels some hardcore energy on her new record. Superchunk goes the other way on their record and chills out a bit. Doe St is a new find for me and there’s a lot to love in their shaggy Australian indie rock. Mom Jeans wins best album cover of the week.

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Lovely Beats

• Dday One – Manu Propria
• Elaquent – Bedtime Stories III
• Bugseed – Idealism
• Bloopr – Tough Tomatoes

Country-Tinge

• Carson McHone – Still Life

Spacey Sweet Indie

• Goon – Paint By Numbers, Vol. 1
• Downward – The Brass Tax
• Doe St – S/T

Driving Indie

• Bambara – Love On My Mind
• Travels – Death Throes

Indie Superstars

• Superchunk – Wild Loneliness
• SASAMI – Squeeze

Pleasant Punks

• Clown Sounds – Born Under a Bad Sigh
• Mom Jeans. – Sweet Tooth
• Onlooker – Total Rest
• En Garde – Debts

Old-School Punks

• Beat Up – Satisfied?

Hardcore Punks

• Ill Communication – Rhythms and Rhymes For the End Times
• Sundown – Keep Moving
• Reckless Threat – Paradise End

Angsty Hollers

• Abandoncy – Pastel//Anguish
• Mountaineer – Giving Up The Ghost

Ripping Ragers

• Bitter Branches – Your Neighbors Are Failures