“Cannonball” became NME’s Single of the Year and, even thirty years later, has one of the most recognizable bass lines in indie rock history. What’s more iconic is the album it’s from. Last Splash celebrates its 30th anniversary with a new reissue that includes remastered versions of its original fifteen tracks and two previously unreleased songs.
Be Your Own Pet has reunited and released their third record, Mommy. Teasing another unapologetically piercing garage rock experience, the album opens with searing guitar solos and thunderous drum patterns. However, it’s in the second half of the album that the band’s experimentation takes center stage.
Guided By Voices has had a very busy forty years, though their thirty-seven albums only prove that you can have quantity without wavering quality. Welshpool Frillies arrived almost exactly six months to the day after their last album, La La Land, after a prolific run of eight albums in the last three years.
Set in the woods of Harvey’s hometown of Dorset, I Inside The Old Year Dying constructs a folk-horror universe with the assistance of longtime collaborators, Flood and John Parish. Old Dorset dialect, musique concrète, field recordings, audio libraries, and standard instruments reshaped create surreal sounds that transport listeners.
Califone essentially began as Rutili’s solo project derivative of his former band Red Red Meat and has positioned itself well within the experimental rock and folk scenes since, now a full-fledged musical project with regular contributors. Villagers is Califone’s most dignified and emotionally liberating project thus far.
The lo-fi album oozes the same unrefined, saturated melodies of indie’s past while toying with idiosyncrasies that create a unique sound. Blistering guitar solos, mellow vocals, and harmonic distortion perfectly chart Radiator Hospital’s dedication to their home-made aesthetic while proving the range they’ve developed over the past decade.
For the questions posed in Big Time, Forever Means seeks answers. Less than a year after the release of her acclaimed indie-folk record, Angel Olsen returns with a masterful EP featuring four songs left off of the LP. Though only sixteen minutes in length, Forever Means is nothing short of the journey we expect from a full-length .