10-07-2021 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [2019-2021] # Yung, Holy Fuck, The Writhing Squares, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Mike Dillon, The Kills, PWNT, Midnight Sister, Deserta, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Mike Krol, Rival Sons
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Progress 3:54
Autobiograhy 4:02
from Ongoing Dispute 2021
Showcasing an angsty, unsettled indie rock with dark post-punk and heavier inclinations, Denmark's Yung made their international debut with A Youthful Dream in mid-2016. The quartet spent the next nearly five years preparing the follow-up, with bandleader and main songwriter Mikkel Holm Silkjær citing members' varied musical tastes as a challenge in finding the right balance of noise and tunefulness...
Luxe feat. Alexis Taylor 6:10
San Sebastian 3.14
from Deleter 2020
Toronto electro-rock group Holy Fuck have managed to hone their junk shop aesthetic into a surprisingly coherent form of warped pop music... Like their previous albums, this one was born from impromptu jams and sketches at rehearsals and soundchecks. At this point in their career, the group's chemistry is so strong that the music seems to naturally flow from them, and they've never sounded this tight before. Having incorporated buried, distorted vocals into their last few releases, here they invite a few guests to give a bit more of a human touch to their machine rhythms... Tipping closer to dance-pop than noise-rock, Deleter is one of Holy Fuck's most finely tuned albums, yet the band sound as spontaneous as ever.
Dirt in My Mind’s Eye 4:31
A Whole New Jupiter 19:49
from Out of the Ether 2019
Even though Philly-based band the Writhing Squares is made up of just two people, they conjure enough layers of sonic sludge to sound not just like a large band on full power, but a wall of beautifully gnarled noise calling out from the depths of a black hole. Building on the clatter of decidedly primitive drum-machine rhythms, Daniel Provenzano's overdriven bass lines wobble and churn as his bandmate Kevin Nickles fills in any space with tentacular waves of saxophone, delay-drenched vocals and deep-fried electronics... Even at their most meandering, the Writhing Squares' dense and hulking sound belies its own considered design. Out of the Ether is the strongest chapter of their work to date and points towards even more interesting space explorations to come.
King of Bones 3:56
Echo .13
Question of Faith 5:19
from Wrong Creatures 2018
While it would be incorrect to say that all of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's albums are borne out of tragedy and trial, it often feels that way... In 2014, drummer Leah Shapiro underwent brain surgery to treat a neurological disease. Though she had recovered by the time the band began work on their eighth studio album, 2018's eerie and menacing Wrong Creatures, a sense of spiritual peril pervades much of the album. As Been sings on "A Question of Faith," "I'm a question of faith/I'm a faded mind/I'm what calls you away/I'm what leaves you in Time." It's just this sort of doomed reflection that permeates much of Wrong Creatures. However, rather than simply being a dark and cynical glimpse into a metaphysical void, the album actually feels lighter than recent releases. .. On Wrong Creatures, it's refreshing to hear a band so wrought with spiritual and emotional demons find their rock & roll grace and let it rip.
The vibraphonist, drummer, and percussionist is an in-demand sideman as well as a bandleader in his own right.
Kharma Bums Overture 2:50
Ignatius Finds a Ghat 4:43
Kharma Bums 2:16
from Kharma Bums2019
...“Well I got to say the feedback from what y’all released has been really nice to tell you the truth I forgot about this record and how cool it actually was to me that’s one of the joys of making music you make it and it’s out there and sometimes you forget about it and then someone says hey I really like that so I’m very happy that you guys were able to release this moment in time,” added Mike Dillon. “I was able to do my interpretation and bring some elements of Indian music Tabla And sitar into my field of vision and merge it with y’all’s beautiful, life changing, experience.”...
An Anglo-American duo that plays fiery garage rock with blues grit, new wave cool, and loads of feedback.
Superpowerless 3:02
Kiss the Wrong Side 2:57
Night Train 3:03
from Little Bastards 2020
A good sign that a band is on a creative hot streak is the amount of music they release outside of their albums. As the B-sides and rarities collection Little Bastards shows, Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart were barely keeping up with their muse during their first decade as the Kills. Named for the Roland 880 sequencer/drum machine that gave the duo's early work its signature throb, Little Bastards is an apt description of these stray songs that deserve more love. The collection focuses on the especially prolific No Wow and Midnight Boom eras, reflecting how the Kills' horizons were expanding and what made them special in the first place..
Eccentric, groove-based Baroque psych-pop conceived by singer/songwriter/drummer Kosta Galanopoulos.
Days in the Summer 3:04
It's Funny feat. Luke Enyeart
Sunday Runaway 1:32
from Days in the Summer 2021
Named for the Miles Davis quote "play what's not there," PWNT is the solo project of Kosta Galanopoulos, a Los Angeles-based musician who previously played drums for acts spanning Adam Lambert and like-minded indie pop project Hether (Paul Castelluzzo). Keenly idiosyncratic, however, PWNT's debut album, Days in the Summer, embraces a shape-shifting, hazy, theatrical retro pop that covers some of the common ground between '60s psych-pop, lo-fi synth pop, dreamy bedroom pop, and jazzy lounge music...
Cinematic art pop from the Los Angeles duo of Juliana Giraffe and Ari Balouzian.
Satellite 4:06
Tomorrowland 4:21
Painting the Roses 3:13
from Painting the Roses 2021
The follow-up to Midnight Sister's 2017 debut, Saturn Over Sunset, Painting the Roses takes the cinematic, stylized art pop of wispy-voiced vocalist Juliana Giraffe and producer Ari Balouzian in still more adventurous directions...
The project of singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Matthew Doty finds the sweet spot between synth pop and shoegaze.
Save Me 5:59
Be So Blue 5:30
Black Aura 5:31
from Black Aura My Sun 2020
With Black Aura My Sun, Deserta's Matthew Doty shows off his knowledge of several decades' worth of shoegaze and synth pop as well as his skill at reinterpreting those styles in ways that are familiar, but never boring. Much like Lust for Youth, Deserta excels at creating almost uncannily perfect recombinations of iconic sounds. ..
Sunny-sounding Australian band specializes in "soft punk/hard pop" with a smart and jangly approach.
The Second of the First 3:40
She's There 3:44
The Only One 3:46
from Sideways to New Italy 2020
After a couple of EPs where they worked on finding their feet as a band, the Australian quintet Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever nailed it on their first album, 2018's Hope Downs. Their three-guitar attack was honed to a fine point, the songwriting suddenly popped like formerly plugged-up ears in a descending aircraft, and their sound had all the mystery of early R.E.M. paired with the power of the Church at their rockiest. The record would have been top of the class during the golden age of '80s jangle pop, and it shone like a glittering diamond in the murky era of chillgaze and stoned psychedelia it was surrounded by in its own time. The band must have realized they had hit on something extraordinary because on 2020's Sideways to New Italy, they don't change the formula much...
An L.A.-based garage rocker with a large sense of humor plus a day job as a graphic designer.
Power Chords 3:22
Left for Dead 2:40
Blue and Pink 3:32
from Power Chords 2019
Most of the garage-punk acts that have emerged in the wake of Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees in the 2010s have been bands with no small amount of studied cool lurking behind their sweaty energy. Mike Krol is a vital exception to this rule; Krol is far too concerned with pumping out his fuzzy, no-frills, hook-infused rock and laying his heart out for all to see to have much truck with being cool. And that's a large part of what makes his music work so well. Krol clearly has a sense of humor and isn't trying to reinvent the wheel, but it's clear that rock & roll means a lot to him...
Fuzzed-out classic rock revivalists from Los Angeles whose sound evokes the bluesy sound of legendary bands like Led Zeppelin.
Back In The Woods 3:32
Feral Roots 5:55
Too Bad 4:44
from Feral Roots 2019
Since debuting in 2009 with the self-released Before the Fire, Long Beach, California's Rival Sons have been on a tear, delivering a refreshingly unfussy blast of blues-blasted hard rock on an almost yearly basis. Working once again with producer Dave Cobb, Feral Roots, the band's sixth full-length effort... Rival Sons may have complete control of the ship, but they intend to leave a huge wake.
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