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Los Angeles Anglo-American trio Sunday (1994) will release their second EP, “Devotion”, this Friday (9th May) via Arista/RCA Records. The indie-dream pop group comprises Paige Turner on vocals, Lee Newell on guitar and Puma on drums. They quietly previewed the title track this week following previous singles “Doomsday” and “Rain.”

Written by Turner and Newell, who also produced the track, “Devotion” continues the band’s talent for threading intimacy and abrasion into something warmly off-kilter. “‘Devotion’, the title track to our second EP, is out now,” the band wrote in a typically arch missive. “A love letter scrawled on the back of a beer mat, about a night in an English pub where the ceilings sag, the ale is flat, and the heart, against all good sense, rises.”

The six-track EP, produced entirely by Newell, promises to be a loose sequel to their debut. “We are thrilled to unveil “Devotion“, our second EP,” they added. “A fevered companion to our first. Each song converses, conspires, or continues the story of one that came before. We won’t tell you which; discovery is far more divine. Call it a psalm for the disenchanted. Or… an EP.

Sophie Allison has always written candidly about her life, making Soccer Mommy one of indie rock’s most interesting and beloved artists of the last decade. On “Evergreen”, Allison is again writing about her life but life’s different these days. Since 2022’s “Sometimes, Forever”, Allison experienced a profound and personal loss. New songs emerged, unflinching reflections on what she was feeling.

She wanted them to sound that way too, as true to the demos as possible. Nothing overindulgent, everything real.

New album “Evergreen”, out now

Washington DC band Pretty Bitter announce their signing to Tiny Engines. Their album “Pleaser” comes out in July and the lead single is “Thrill Eater.” Mainstays of the D.C. DIY scene, Pretty Bitter live up to their name. Masters of all kinds of dissonance, they juxtapose stories of haunting and heartbreak with dazzling pop-rock arrangements. Pretty Bitter make music that gets the emo kids dancing. They’re unafraid to infuse their blistering breakdowns with hits of disco and synthpop—and that’s exactly what they’ve done on “Pleaser”, their sophomore album, co-produced by Evan Weiss (Into It. Over It., Pet Symmetry) and Simon Small (Strawberry Boy) and out July 25th, 2025 via cult favourite indie label Tiny Engines.

Following a string of ethereal singles, their 2022 debut “Hinges” formally introduced Pretty Bitter and their dreampunk to a rapidly growing audience. Fearlessly led by Mel Bleker and sharing studio and touring members with D.C. punk all-stars Ekko Astral, Pretty Bitter has been embraced by DIY fans far and wide. In the summer of 2025, they’ll be making their triumphant return to the Midwest’s premiere DIY music festival Fauxchella, and they’ll be one of many hometown heroes taking the stage for the inaugural Liberation Weekend, Ekko Astral’s hand-curated trans rights benefit music festival.

On “Pleaser”, Pretty Bitter have amped up the drama of their lush arrangements—a match made in heaven for the emotional ferocity of Bleker’s lyricism. “If everything is out there, nothing’s embarrassing,” they sigh on “I Hope You Do,” expertly toeing the line between the personal and the universal over bright, bubbling synths. On the arresting closer “Outer Heaven,” Bleker sings “Time isn’t a lover in the way it likes to play / I’m getting older, every due I pay / Time isn’t a bandage in the way you always say / I won’t be abandoned by myself again this way.” Their observational, heart-on-sleeve songwriting is as effortless as their flittering between the jangly, dreamy inclinations of rock, pop, and folk. “Pleaser” is a triumph, and instantly loveable record that reveals just how bright Pretty Bitter’s future is.

Pretty Bitter – “Pleaser” out July 2025 on Tiny Engines

American indie folk band from Michigan, now based in Los Angeles, California, USA. Formed in 2010, the band’s name was inspired by Lake Huron. The founder of the band grew up visiting this lake and would spend evenings playing music around the campfire.

Lord Huron has gained popularity for their unique blend of indie folk music and captivating storytelling. Their songs often transport listeners to scenic landscapes and evoke a sense of nostalgia. With their melodic tunes and heartfelt lyrics, Lord Huron continues to captivate audiences worldwide.

“The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1” is Lord Huron’s fifth album. It was written and co-produced by Schneider, and it features band members Tom Renaud, Mark Barry and Miguel Briseño, and a host of collaborators, including actress Kristen Stewart (on ‘Who Laughs Last’) and Blonde Redhead’s Kazu Makino (on ‘Fire Eternal’). The album title references the mysterious machine featured on the cover art. Schneider asks: “What if you could choose your fate like choosing a song on a jukebox? What if your finger slipped and you got the B-side instead? What if you misunderstood the meaning of the dang song to begin with?”

Guerilla Toss has released their latest earworm, “Psychosis Is Just a Number,” available worldwide on all digital service providers (DSPs) from Sub Pop. This stand-alone single was produced by Stephen Malkmus and mixed by Jorge Elbrect. It’s a glittering no wave skronk anthem about staying present in the chaos – imagine post-punk Pylon meeting the cheerleaders from the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video, but they’re obsessed with The Contortions.

This track is the first new material since the release of their 2022 Sub Pop debut, “Famously Alive”, which Our Culture described as “…their most urgent, vibrant, and deliriously infectious effort to date… Guerilla Toss make being alive sound like a heavenly deal.” The band is currently working on their forthcoming long-player, which is expected to be released later this year.

Frankie Cosmos was originally a bedroom pop outlet for Greta Kline, who released a lot of stuff before ever releasing a proper full-length album. However, Frankie Cosmos has existed as a full band, with regular members, for a few albums now. They remain quite prolific, but the sound of a full band really rounded things out around Kline’s lyrics.

“Next Thing” is the best album from 2016, which may be enough alone to get it on this list given that 2016 as not all that long ago. However, beyond being fantastic and influencing people as a byproduct of making great music, there is a case to be made beyond that for Frankie Cosmos. The project began as a bedroom project of Greta Kline, and with “Next Thing” she finally made the project manifest as a full-length, proper release. The bedroom pop artist is certainly a niche well-known in this modern, internet-heavy era, but albums like “Next Thing” bring that into the limelight.

Frankie Cosmos have shared an official video for their emotive new single “Bitch Heart.” Director, Eliza Lu Doyle shares about the song/video: “To me the song is about being torn between the comforts of domesticated life and your innate wildness. There’s a yearning for a more feral time––before you touched your fucking phone all day. So we made Greta into a dog-shepherd, someone who straddles those two realms. Meanwhile the band performs a line dance that’s somehow constrained and exuberant at once. Everything is shot in the dark using infrared and thermal cameras, hovering in the not-quite-real.”

“Different Talking”, the sixth and, so far, best album by NYC indie-rock four-piece Frankie Cosmos, exists across time and space, as we all do. It’s a collection of fragments and memories, remembered places, and reinterpreted feelings that adds up to a lucent, humming whole: a sturdy, worldly indie-rock record about aging and the passage of time that nonetheless manages to feel sharply current.

Frankie Cosmos has announced a World Tour in support of the groups forthcoming long player From the upcoming album ‘Different Talking’, out June 27th on Sub Pop Records.

The promise of a Florry show, a now familiar caravan that has been honed over ambitiously trekked zig zags across America and Europe since the release of Dear Life Records debut “The Holey Bible“, is the redemptive promise and prodigal joy of rock and roll guitar music. Bred in the crackling warmth of the Philadelphia DIY scene, and forged with the alloys of community action, queer liberation and bedroom poetry, bandleader Francie Medosch and her absolute unit of collaborators have put in the work of sharpening their homespun tools to take up the mantle of the great lip-puckering rock and roll tradition pioneered by the likes of The Band and the Rolling Stones, but with proudly displayed Aimee Mann and Yo La Tengo bumper stickers on the rusty frame of the truck. At any second, the wheels could come off but they are steering just fine.

For ‘Sounds Like…’ Florry’s sophomore effort as a fully realized band, Medosch and co. decamped to Drop of Sun studios in the nest of the Blue Ridge Mountains to record with Asheville wunderkind Colin Miller, a critical voice behind the records of MJ Lenderman, Wednesday and Merce Lemon and a powerful songwriter in his own right. Three powerhouse days in late 2023 solidified writing work done by the band earlier that summer in the now defunct Haw Creek compound under Miller’s guiding suggestion.

The result is a portrait of a ripping band cresting towards the height of their powers, uniquely equipped to capture a wildly loving, barn-burning camcorder clip of a turbulent trip with your best friends, without dipping into nostalgia bait. Lyrically, Medosch’s utterances are both careful and excessive, the product of sifting through the rubble of classic good-time media, and finding what works for both her and her community to reach the heights of abandon.

“The Jackass theme song was actually a really big influence on the new album.”

The expansive personnel and continent spanning footprint of Florry casts a wide net for this community. Florry the band rolls deep in the herd of North American DIY, featuring Jon Cox (Sadurn, Son of Barb) on pedal steel, John Murray on electric guitar, Collin Dennen on bass, Will Henrikson on fiddle, Katya Malison (Doll Spirit Vessel) on Vox, and Joey Sullivan (Bark Culture) on drums. Medosch’s recent move to Burlington Vermont entrenches the Philly born project firmly within the ranks of fellow alt-country upstarts Lily Seabird and Greg Freeman, and gives them a vantage just outside of Pennsylvania at the thresholds of New England and the Midwest. There is a new life breathed into this music that confirms Florry as equally rooted in place work, and at home on the vast roads of America.

For listeners who fell in love with Florry’s infectious charm on sweeping tours with the likes of Kurt Vile, Real Estate, MJ Lenderman, Greg Freeman and Fust, ‘Sounds Like…’, provides a refreshing memento of the band that surely left them smiling. If the support behind ‘The Holey Bible’ provided validation for the insistent vision of these young artists, ‘Sounds Like’ finds them revelling in and honing their vocabulary. Praise from outlets like Pitchfork, Stereogum, Paste, and Brooklyn Vegan touched on the potential of their wild idiosyncrasies, and accurately predicted that their next steps would see them continuing to write their own story, like a 10 car pileup that you can’t take your eyes off if you tried.

Florry proves that they can let the car spin just out of control whenever they want, and you are welcome to ride shotgun while Medosch does donuts in the WaWa parking lot. The ceiling, it turns out, is truly the roof.

released through Dear Life Records on: 2025-05-06

Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke are set to release their debut album as a duo via Warp Records. Following Pritchard’s remixes for Radiohead, the pair struck upon an otherworldly synergy with the track ‘Beautiful People’, a centrepiece of Mark’s 2016 solo album “Under The Sun“.

“Tall Tales” showcases Pritchard’s mastery of archaic machines that he had previously unearthed in synthesizer archives, guiding the music down unexpected and experimental paths. Yorke meanwhile delivers a haunting and expansive vocal performance, evoking Radiohead’s “OK Computer“-era digital FX while delving into dark, introspective storytelling. Features the singles ‘Back In The Game’ and ‘This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice’.

Now presenting a whole album, “Tall Tales” showcases Pritchard’s mastery of archaic machines that he had previously unearthed in synthesizer archives, guiding the music down unexpected and experimental paths. Yorke meanwhile delivers a haunting and expansive vocal performance,

Also central to the project, visual collaborator Jonathan Zawada’s artistry enhances the project with his hyperreal environments that blur the line between the organic and digital, juxtaposing uneasy landscapes of natural beauty with the brutal aesthetics of a dystopian world.

Through Yorke’s lyrics, Pritchard’s atemporal compositions and Zawada’s visuals, “Tall Tales” questions where our insatiable appetite for ‘progress’ might have landed us. 

The First edition vinyl – Black 2LP vinyl in polylined paper inners, housed in casebound sleeve with printed sleeves held in front and back cover, 36 page suspended booklet, debossed cover with tipped in central image. Artwork designed by visual artist, Jonathan Zawada.

Legendary artist, Raincoats co-founder, songwriter, filmmaker, and feminist icon Gina Birch has announced her eagerly awaited second solo album, “Trouble”, arriving via Third Man Records on Friday, July 11th.

For the ‘Causing Trouble Again’ video, after hearing Bob Dylan sing about a white ladder all covered with water, I became obsessed with white ladders,” Gina Birch says. “ I decided to use five white ladders, three with seven rungs…I realized later that this references Jacob’s Ladder and a connection from Earth to heaven, but I think I was thinking of ladders as a symbol of getting on, getting up. I wanted to have a choreographed movement with four of us with these ladders. How do we move with ladders? Do we move together, do we fight, do we dance? “I also wanted to reference the wind scene from the film, The Colour of Pomegranates, and to include as many artist women from the Women in Revolt exhibition as I could. I wanted them to be troublesome, or just to shout ‘Causing trouble!’ I ended up inviting all the artist musician women I knew who could make the shoot, and it was a fantastic meeting of great women, many of whom had never met each other before.”

the new album “Trouble” (out 11th July):