New Music – August 19, 2022

The Chats! Raise up those middle-fingers, I guess. The Chats are at it again with their new record, and it’s great. There’s some classic back-packer style raps in here, which is weird to hear in 2022, and a bunch of other stuff for all tastes.

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Pushing Buttons

• Sweeps – Midsummer | 夏のアルバム

Wordplay

• ShrapKnel – Metal Lung
• Jesse The Tree – Pigeon Man
• DMD – S/T

Mountain Goats

• The Mountain Goats – Bleed Out

Floaty Bedroom Rock

• The Entrepreneurs – Tourism
• Triathalon – Spin
• Windier – Whatever’s Breathing

Catharsis

• Why Bonnie – 90 In November
• The Berries – High Flying Man
• Anna Tivel – Outsiders

Sugary Indie Bounce

• Salt Lick – The Gift of Missing
• Spielbergs – Vestli
• Thick – Happy Now
• Career Woman – Unfun/Sleep In (feat. Small Crush)

Tweaked Post-Punk

• LIFE – North East Coastal Town
• Drin – Down River In The Distance

Pogo punk

• Near Dark – Make Our Way Back
• The Losing Score – Learn To Let This Go
• Stranded – We Are
• CLAMM – Care
• Slaughter Boys – Til The End Of The Week

Middle-Finger Punk

• The Chats – Get Fucked
• Piss Me Off – Scam of a Lifetime
• Isolation – Fabric Tear
• Gluer – S/T

Riffers

• Other Half & Negative Measures – Split
• HIVE – Spiritual Poverty
• Easy Prey – Unrest
• Still/Form – From The Rot is a Gift
• Qitsch – Everything Is Like Everything
• Prize – Celebrate This

Buzzsaw Ragers

• Crossface – Demo ’22
• Hour of Reprisal – Seige // Of Heaven
• Throes – S/T
• Sawchuk – Modern Love
• Holy Death – Moral Terror