Domestic Bliss by Fashion Bath Small, weird clinking kitchen sounds, mixed in with big thick modern sounds, in a song tackling the eternal contradiction between domestic bliss and ambition. Featured on our #63 podcast, www.hlycrp.com
Duff Thompson and the Full Grown Men by Duff Thompson A happy song, about being happy to be alive, but don’t worry it won’t make you throw up. Its lyrics and its music and its production all reference easy, easy easiness, of the kind that’s so hard to find. Featured on our #63 podcast, www.hlycrp.com
Young Guns by Fever Beam To call a band commercial-ready probably sounds like an insult, but this band is so ready and we’re not being insulting. (Fever Beam: if a car commercial approaches you, take that money and run.) Every choice they’ve made here is excellent; one of Cinnamon’s top 10 songs of 2019. Featured […]
Best of the underground, week of July 23, 2019: All that plus an ode to Kiefer Sutherland! Fame! Butt-cheek tattoos! Foot Gun!(All podcasts are on itunes and spotify, and reviews plus podcasts are on our website, www.hlycrp.com, and you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.) We love you artists, stay strong
https://music.apple.com/us/album/busted-lip/1466532805?i=1466532898 Musicians who are gifted with easy honesty can’t just party forever. This Pie Face Girls album rocks hard while also exposing the roots of various evils, and is performed with the kind of anger that comes from experience. In this way the world gets a little bigger. Featured on our #62 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.
Transfigureville by Sam Pryze Colonizing Mars is well-expressed with a lot of giant, soaring, ironic/unironic vocals and a riff that sounds like beeping machinery. Colonizing space is an obvious metaphor for life: super serious, but also kind of improvised, unwinnable and ridiculous. Featured on our #62 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.
Afterthought EP by ings A simple, echo-y elegant song about a woman saying fuck you. So many choices go into making a multi-layered song like this. In this case the choices were all made by one extremely talented person, who chose correctly in every instance. Featured on our #62 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.
https://anti-socialclub.bandcamp.com/ Anti-Social Club did three remixes of its song Spacewalker in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the lunar landing, and this thumping, ominous version is the first. Lots of cool, apprehensive rhythms featuring beeps and hums and vacuum-tube kinds of sounds will make you feel good about having two feet on the ground. Featured […]
WEIRD VIBES by The Power Two notes, with little flashes of harmony and chorus, and a really satisfying manic end. A good song for people who like to think about what music is and could be. We also recommend the album, which is long and interesting and showcases what happens when three skilled and very […]