Reminders of why we love music
Here’s your monthly reminder to support artists! Bandcamp continues to waive their fees on the first Friday of each month, so get all of the best albums, or get a bunch of new merch. New semester, new fit, right?
Local
No One Knows Who Did This, No One Knows Who Did This
This super-secret punk EP reminds us of why we love music in the first place. Yes, that’s a kid singing punk music about butts and being drunk. And yes, it’s one of the best things we’ve heard in a while.
Reese Hoeg, Desire Path
We miss being in a crowded room listening to music like this. But until we can do that, we’ll turn up the heat in our apartments, mimicking the feeling of being surrounded by a dozen sweaty college students, and dance around to “Desire Path.”
New Albums
Glass Animals, Dreamland
“Dreamland” is somehow everything we expected from Glass Animals, and not at all what we thought we would hear. It’s got that strange “am I tripping?” energy about it, but now it’s also got elements of rap and hip-hop that surprise us.
Coco, Last of the Loving
Okay, hear us out. This is like when you’re at a party, and everything is totally casual, and then someone pulls out Yugigo cards, but somehow the mood stays the EXACT same? That’s what listening to “Last of Loving” feels like.
darkDARK, We Forget When We're Apart EP
We were cruising through our new music, and when this one came up, we literally stopped what we were doing to listen to it. It’s got the aspects of pop that we love, while still sounding original. It’s got out-of-left-field electronic elements, and we feel cooler than we are when we listen to it.
Video Age, Pleasure Line
We love a good, groovy record. “Pleasure Line” is synthy dream pop without an expiration date. It could have played in a disco-bar in the 1970s, or it could be blasting out of our windows now. We’ll take it either way.
Old Sea Brigade & Luke Sital-Singh, All the Ways You Sing in the Dark
One of the best parts of 2020 has been the resurgence of Twilight (and we’ll say it again). This record has big “I’m edgy and cool but also really emotional and experience a fair amount of yearning” energy (you know, like if Bella was more interesting).
New Singles
Emmrose, The Grass Was Greener
Dreamy pop meets indignation on this track from Emmrose (who is 16!!!). We don’t know what you were doing when you were 16, but we were definitely not writing tracks that sound like a balancing act between love, hope, and anger (but we also weren’t going to LaGuardia, so).
Nané, Blue Velvet
The energy of this track matches the energy of realizing that school starts in two weeks. It’s chaotic but remains structured enough that it doesn’t give us whiplash. You’re sort of hyped, but also really nervous.
Assembled by music director Meghan Jonas.