As their sixth studio release, Pollen sees star-crossed lovers Alaina Moore and Pat Riley of Tennis fighting the powers that be. Caught in a violent collision of fate and free will, the darling indie duo prevails triumphant but not unscathed. Pollen is a pearl; a natural wonder that is worthy of reverie and intrusion of thought.
For Frankie Cosmos’ fifth studio album, growing pains give way to the shaky legs on which the indie-pop quartet takes its first steps into real life. After over a decade at work, their primordial beginnings as a home-based solo project are gone but not forgotten. Inner World Peace totes the patient deliberateness that comes with maturity.
Sporting just seven tracks, Is It You? is fashioned after the incessant way that the human life is led. Much like how consecutive days unconsciously turn into weeks, each song exists distinctly separate from one another and still somehow, the tracklist can also be blended together into one mind-melting thirty minute trip.
Incredibly idiosyncratic - albeit not to one another, the Atlanta-based quartet Mamalarky communicates amongst themselves in a tongue all their own. Their most recent release, Pocket Fantasy, is not an invitation into their world, but an overheard discussion felt so intensely that it is carried home by casual passerby.