Plainly & Painfully

5/5 golden merles “Come Ye & Follow Me“, newly released from Los Angeles Noise/Freak Folk outfit The Clog, is great and conspicuously graceful work.

5/5 golden merles Songwriting triumvirate Nathan Baumgartner, Boone Howard and Tyler Keene have returned with an album (Well Once There Was A King) of playful profundity, earnest strife, and drive-thru funerals.

5/5 golden merles Sam Hirst’s single “Little Thief” is gracefully askance lo-fi rock, lyrically inventive in its casual utterances, hooks solidly hooking as honed from the various instrumental and melodic turns.

5/5 golden merles Oakland’s Christina’s Trip have released F.B.A.T., the first single from Cherub Dream Records‘ excellent 3-act EP, “Lucky Three” (with Natasha Sandworms and Mox).

5/5 golden merles In an era defined by death, disease, and (gestures broadly), commiseration is the best thing a person can do.

5/5 golden merles Genuine Leather’s “gunshy” is indie pop-rock with much cunning sample and synth.

5/5 golden merles Sundozer’s “Liquid Heaven” is synthwave/indie pop with great melodic confidence.

5/5 golden merles No Lonesome’s “Good Hurt” offers a nice, vibrant stain derived from the guttural undercurrent-slurry of Americana, freak-folk and anti-folk.

5/5 golden merles The perfect slice of alt rock paranoia, The Kerosene Hours’ “Who’s That in my Room” explores an inordinately compelling post-punk impostor self-diagnosis.

5/5 golden merles jack petrone’s track “pavement” does a lot with deceptively a little.