From their Bandcamp page, Howardian “is an American pop collective fronted by Ian Vanek (ex-Japanther.) The group uses loose poly rhythms, sticky synth melodies and
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Parsnip – When The Trees Bear Fruit (Trouble In Mind, 2019)
Parsnip are an all female 4-piece from Melbourne, Australia. They first came to my attention courtesy of Juice at Drunken Sailor Records who has a
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Adult Magic – s/t LP (Specialist Subject Records / Dead Broke Rekerds, 2019)
Adult Magic are an indie punk 3-piece outfit from Long Island, featuring members of Iron Chic, Broadcaster, Crow Bait, Sister Kisser, Get Bent & more.
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Giant Peach – But You Made Me Such A Beautiful Thing (Dead Broke Rekerds, 2018)
You know how I sometimes make perhaps stupid yet plausible statements based on no research whatsoever? I feel like there’s one coming on right now.
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AJJ – Ugly Spiral: Lost Works 2012 – 16 (sideonedummy, 2018)
AJJ, or Andrew Jackson Jihad (as they were once known) is a name I’ve been aware of for some long number of years now (they’ve
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Stringer – My Bad (Wiretap Records, 2018)
Stringer are from Brooklyn, NYC and apparently used to be known a Heeney. Motherfucker, either way I am no wiser. Intrepid reviewer and writer extraordinaire
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Future Girls – Motivation Problems (Dirt Cult, 2018)
Future Girls are from Halifax, Nova Scotia. They started out in 2015 as a song writing outlet for Matty Grace (of Fat Stupids, Weekend Dads).
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Retirement Party – Somewhat Literate (Counter Intuitive Records, 2018)
When I was asked if I wanted to review this, I was intrigued by the promotional blurb. Themes of anxieties around growing older, struggles with
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Lemuria – Recreational Hate (Asian Man records / Turbo Worldwide, 2017)
I’ll be honest – this one slipped under the radar. It totally slipped by untracked at the tail end of 2017. I suppose by way
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Impotentie – Demonstratieve Opnamens (Drunken Sailor Records / Swollen City Records 2018)
Impotentie are (as far as I can tell) a post-punk 2 piece from Montreal that sing in… wait for it… Dutch. Fucking Dutch, mate. I
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