New Music Friday 1/17/25
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Bovine Excision - SAMIA
IYL: Haley Blais, Squirrel Flower, Claud
Shovel - Deep Sea Diver
IYL: Rubblebucket, LABRYS, Black Belt Eagle Scout
The third full-length from Deep Sea Diver, Impossible Weight is a work of sublime highs and mesmerizing lows, its restless intensity both unsettling and transcendent. For bandleader Jessica Dobson, the album’s sonic and emotional expanse stems from a period of sometimes-brutal self-examination.
"I sort of hit a wall where I was feeling very detached from making music, and unable to find joy in it,” says the vocalist/multi-instrumentalist, whose bandmates include her husband Peter Mansen (drums), Garrett Gue (bass), and Elliot Jackson (guitar, synth). “I realized I had to try to rediscover my voice as a songwriter, and figure out the vocabulary for what I needed to say on this album.”
Co-produced by Dobson and Andy D. Park (Pedro the Lion, Ruler) and mainly recorded at Seattle’s Studio X and The Hall of Justice, Impossible Weight brings that emotional excavation to a more grandiose sound than Deep Sea Diver has ever attempted. Along with revealing the limitless imagination of Dobson’s guitar work—a prodigious talent she’s previously shown in playing lead guitar for artists like Beck and The Shins—the album’s lush textures and mercurial arrangements more fully illuminate the power of her vocals. “’I’d never produced a record before and I started out with low expectations for myself, but at some point I realized, ‘I can do this,’”. “I decided to completely trust my voice and make really bold decisions in all my production calls—just push everything to the absolute edges.”
Ceiling - Josh Gilligan
IYL: Charlie Bloom, Juniper, The Shadowboxers
Just Because - Matilda Mann
IYL: Tommy Lefroy, Sophie May, Liang Lawrence
From the lyrics pencilled in her diary to playing demos on the kitchen speaker, Matildas up coming debut album “Roxwell” is a living, breathing portrayal of the bittersweet transition to adulthood. Capturing love in its myriad forms, the tracks’ are as varied as their subjects, but tying it all together is Matilda Mann’s classic lyrics - witty, wise and leaving you wondering what else she meant.
The Wolf - Maddie Regent
IYL: Eleanor Kingston. Caroline Dare, Kayla DiVenere
I don’t know what I’m doing but I’m doing it 🫶
Had Enough - greer
IYL: Breakup Shoes, Strawberry Milk Cult, M.A.G.S.
Having signed to Epitaph in 2020, the band – Josiah (vocals), Corbin (guitar), Seth (bass) and Lucas (drums) – has previously released a handful of singles and two EPs, Lullaby For You and Happy People, produced by Rob Schnapf and John Congleton (Wallows, St. Vincent, Angel Olsen) respectively. Defined by unguarded sincerity in their songwriting, tight alt-rock instrumentation and a charismatic exuberance, Greer is eager for fans old and new to experience their new material born of the time taken to internally develop the project’s identity and the sophistication that has accompanied it.
A QUESTION OF YOU - INHALER
IYL: Sam Fender, Blossoms, Wunderhorse
After the release of their debut album ‘It Wont Always Be Like This’ in the summer of 2021, Irish group ‘Inhaler’ took a set list of songs which chronicled their earliest years of being in a band on a vigorous worldwide touring schedule. The months spent away from home would go on to serve and inform the narrative that would become their sophomore effort ‘Cuts and Bruises’. Sonically, ‘Cuts and Bruises’ travels further away from the seismic distortions and colourations of their debut. In a desire to serve the song, it allows more space for their chemistry as a band to breathe.
Pavement - Mallrat
IYL: Cub Sport, LAUREL, Sjowgreen
Mallrat has been breaking barriers since her influential debut in 2016 – accumulating over half a billion career streams in her discography and ARIA Platinum status. The project of Grace Shaw has shared stages with Maggie Rogers, Post Malone, King Princess, Conan Gray; collaborated with Azealia Banks, The Chainsmokers, BENEE, Blu DeTiger, Cub Sport; a late night TV debut on The Late Late Show with James Corden; headline world tours amongst globally recognised festivals Reading and Leeds, Austin City Limits, Laneway, Splendour In The Grass, Listen Out and boasts multiple triple j Hottest 100 entries from 2017 – 2020. The adored songwriter and producer catapulted Mallrat across the globe with critical acclaim from NPR, Stereogum, NME, NYLON, PAPER Magazine, The New York Times, Billboard, Noisey and more further affirming Mallrat as a beacon primed for the world stage.
Ankles - Lucy Dacus
IYL: boygenius, Haley Heynderickx, Indigo De Souza
Rushmere - Mumford & Sons
IYL: Of Monsters and Men, The Lumineers, George Ezra
Mumford & Sons rose to prominence in 2009, releasing debut album Sigh No More. With folk music at its nucleus, the band took a propulsive, heart-on-sleeve approach to playing their acoustic instruments, spawning the likes of Little Lion Man and The Cave. Whatever Mumford & Sons were doing, it connected emphatically, garnering a first BRIT Award for British Album and 6 Grammy nominations. In 2012, the band followed up with Babel, debuting at #1 on both sides of the Atlantic. It took Sigh No More’s storytelling blueprint but made everything bigger, bolder, and more euphoric. Grabbing their first Grammy Award for Album of the Year, they added the likes of I Will Wait and Lover of The Light to their live set and become synonymous with a sound and aesthetic that many new and established artists still liberally borrow from. 2015’s Wilder Mind followed Babel in debuting at #1 in both the UK and US. A more electric and epic affair, it propelled Mumford & Sons into arenas. Then in 2018 came Delta, a portrayal of the band at their most experimental to date. Leaving the studio open to friends, it welcomed a more expansive tone to the band’s oeuvre. In January 2024, a Pharrell Williams collaboration called Good People dropped. A stomping, propulsive call-to-arms, it acts as a weighty statement of future intent. As serial collaborators, Pharrell joins the hallowed likes of Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Ray Davies, Baaba Maal, Maggie Rogers and HAIM to work with the band
big change - neil young and the chrome hearts
THE PRESSURE - little image
IYL: WHALES TALK, Parrotfish, Betcha
alt trio of misfits - no ego
