The outside world’s varied stimuli are enough to overwhelm those among us just trying to get through it — thankfully Suburban Living have dropped a new single for our contemporary hazy daydreams.
Loceke as a record loses absolutely no momentum from start to finish - both in terms of instrumentation, a mix of tangible and electronic dream pop textures, as well as Hale’s world-building of her perspective.
Chicago’s Varsity begin their sophomore effort Parallel Person with a question that foreshadows the record’s candid discussion of self critique, isolation, and human relationships. Fortunately such difficult topics are approached with levity in one way or another.
Lush and industrial seem diametric adjectives, but Den-Mate’s Entropii is one of those rare releases that walks the path between two worlds, equally parts cold and dark as it is warm, inviting, and intimate.
BRNDA’s ability to make witty, sarcastic romps does help find solace in an overarching worldview many of us share; things might kind of suck, but at least we’re in this together.
throughout Andrew Grossman’s forty minute, genre-meshing serenade, he as protagonist strides a line between cautious optimism and upbeat nihilism that feels thematically uneasy.
