21.10.2026-U.S. GIRLS Bless This Mess (4AD,2023)

 

ART POP

   Even by her own shape-shifting standards, U.S. Girls’ Meghan Remy has executed some breath-taking gear-changes since 2020’s Heavy Light. Besides a typically withering critique of Father Christmas (seasonal single Santa Stay Home), she has written a memoir (Begin By Telling), sampled Glenn Gould, covered the Birthday Party for a tribute album and more. Along the way, she gave birth to twins and recorded an album, whose title speaks volumes about Remy’s ability to transform mighty feats of multi-tasking and politically aware meaning into hallowed art-pop.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/7jtnzvhx

19.10.2026-SHE DREW THE GUN Behave Myself (Submarine Cat,2021)

 

PSYCH POP

   Personifying the spirit of rebellion, She Drew The Gun‘s uncompromising, genre-defying third LP, Behave Myself, is a rallying cry of fuzzy psych-pop hooks and lyrical protest, unafraid to fight the social and political dystopia we find ourselves heading towards.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/qcc2vhmk

16.10.2026-TANLINES Highlights (Tru Thoughts,2015)

 

ELECTRONIC

   This Brooklyn duo had one of the best indie hits in recent memory with 2012’s “All of Me,” a beautifully sculpted nugget of sad-Eighties dance pop. On their second album, Eric Emm and Jesse Cohen sound like they burn prayer candles to the moany ghosts of OMD and ABC, but the pair’s songs take you places you don’t expect — from the Roy Orbison-ish country goth of “Invisible Ways” to the Afropop buoyancy of “Slipping Away.” “Nobody wants to be alone, sittin’ by themselves watching falling snow,” Emm intones on the doleful “If You Stay,” as chamomile jangle keeps him warm. Even at its most mournful, this is an album charged by bright ideas.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/qmv64do5

13.10.2026-QUEEN OF THE MEADOW Survival Of The Unfittest (Only Lovers,2021)

 

FOLK

   Survival Of The Unfittest simply exists to cater to itself. In this manner it becomes precious and self aware, but not in direct competition with another act that would push for widespread success. A contrast to soaring, dizzying heights—grounded in the ‘now’ of mood and feeling. Survival Of The Unfittest does make you feel things, but importantly, it makes you feel something different while breaking you out of the usual funk, catching you off guard. There’s room for the usual disclaimer, if you’re not looking to break the pace of what’s ‘usual’ Survival Of The Unfittest is likely to pass without a second thought, but, if like me you’re looking for a little of something else, The Queen Of The Meadow sits in the right field.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/bzka6z41

10.10.2026-AIR WAVES The Dance (Fire,2022)

 

INDIE POP

   ‘The Dance’  is anything but an over-confected studio-sprawl -like all Air Waves music it’s at root beautifully simple, instantly accessible and entirely addictive. Nicole released their first independent album in 2009 under the Air Waves moniker, a name inspired by a Guided By Voices song -subsequent albums like 2010’s ‘Dungeon Dots’ (which featured a guest vocal from fellow Brooklynite Sharon Van Etten), 2015’s ‘Parting Glances’  and 2017’s stunning ‘Warrior’  crystallised Schneit’s vision of loose-but-focused, convivial but startling pop. ‘The Dance’ continues that trajectory but finds Schneit opening up their music to a more fluid sense of space and movement, while keeping their lyrical eye between the personal and the political, from the specific to the universal with a haiku-like directness and suggestion. ‘Wait’  explores issues with focusing, something rooted in their childhood alongside the need to not overdo anything and appreciating the simplicity within something.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/17zsarbl

07.10.2026-UNDERGROUND YOUTH Mademoiselle (Not On Label,2010)

 

POST-PUNK/SHOEGAZE

   The Underground Youth are something of a musical enigma. This Manchester four-piece have been collectively creating a heady blend of shoegaze, post-punk and psych-rock with ease since 2008 to produce an overall sound so hypnotically mesmerising that I'm constantly floored every single time that I hear them. 

https://www.sendspace.com/file/if61noow

04.10.2026-DON DIABLO Future (Hexagon,2018)

 

ELECTRONIC

   It's a beautiful album with which to welcome the summer, and if you need a little sunshine in your life, this LP should do the trick.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/nknfq8bm