FFO: Asian Glow, The Brave Little Abacus, Glocca Morra, The Knife, The Microphones, Modest Mouse, My Bloody Valentine, My Chemical Romance

Hornet Disaster is Weatherday’s most expansive work to date. In the initial bout of inspired writing and recording, they produced over 70 songs for the record, but not before they had a complete, overarching narrative that was coherently tied back to previous work. It’s a bustling record with disparate songs each vying for spacelike wasps in a swarm. It can inspire caution and chaos, but there’s wonder, purpose, and a certain familiarity there, too. Weatherday has extended the knotted, thrashing maximalism of Come in by doubling down with the uncompromized, no-stone-unturned nature of Hornet Disaster. Where Come in was the product of an artist searching for their voice, Hornet Disaster represents the joyful abandon that comes from having found it.

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FFO: Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Feist, Florist, Moses Sumney, Told Slant, Julia Holter, Land of Talk, Kara Jackson, Katie Von Schleicher, Bjork, Big Thief, Juana Molina, Sudan Archives, Nick Hakim, Sufjan Stevens

On her third full-length TIDE/TIED, Montreal artist Thanya Iyer expands on the future-folk designs of sophomore album KIND with washes of jazz-inflected pop and ensemble ambience. While Iyer explored a more personal journey of self-love on KIND, she, her band, and cohort of guest musicians embark on a new way of moving on TIDE/TIED, prizing collective care and communal healing as antidotes to the dissonances of living in a colonial, capitalistic world.

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FFO: Mitski, Xenia Rubinos, Karima Walker, Noname, Tune-Yards, Yves Jarvis

Deja Carr’s lyrics for her recording project Mal Devisa are cleverly verbose, their delivery like lightning whispering into the haunting DIY spaces where she cut her teeth. Such boundless inspiration and style are central facets of Mal Devisa’s work, whose sonically and narratively unrestrained passages teem with empathy and liberatory visions for a better world.

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FFO: Alvvays, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Snail Mail, snappy invigorating pop-rock

Their fifth album, Singapore Dreaming, centers their hometown through a more focused lens. Where previous album All Around You comprised a space to sit with the complex feelings inspired by the intense world we inhabit, Singapore Dreaming is that intense world itself — Subsonic Eye’s interpretation of their high energy urban context refracted through straight-to-the-point, poppy, ergonomic songs tinged with tension that could explode at a moment’s notice. Despite the newly honed vision, Singapore Dreaming still has all of Subsonic Eye’s signature elements: spellbinding walls of tone, hooky riffs, zippy rhythms, and punches in the perfect place — all led by singer Nur Wahidah’s dreamlike voice, whose vaporous and velvety character always makes the layers whole.

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FFO: Sasami, Mannequin Pussy, Model/Actriz, Priests, fiery choruses in the depths of the mascara moshpit

To commemorate the first anniversary of the band's debut album pink balloons, Ekko Astral present pink balloons: popped, a deluxe CD version featuring the original release's 11 song tracklist along with five bonus tracks including “pomegranate tree” (originally released as a stand-alone single).

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FFO: Deftones, Duster, Cloakroom, Horse jumper of Love, Nirvana, Ovlov, Pile, Lemonheads, Kid Cudi, DMX, Team Sleep, Pinback, Tera Melos

The album’s ambitious denouement, "5225," is a slowburning build around knotted guitar, steadily crescendoing to a moment of chaotic clarity that centers a boisterous, unexpected solo. "5225" momentarily steers bathes and listens away from its sonic milieu, only to plunge listeners back into the heavy, crunched distortion of the album’s closer "why i play 2k/land back," concluding on a note that reminds us the land we call ours and pass on through legacy is all stolen. It’s declarative in a way that matches the stylistically focused nature of bathes and listens, the product of McKnight’s choice to allow his strengths to guide his songwriting, resulting in Maneka’s strongest work to date.

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At the end of 2023, Elephant Gym embarked on a year-long world tour, performing 60 shows across 23 countries. The tour featured sold-out performances in cities such as New York, Tokyo, Paris, and Santiago, Chile. The enthusiastic response from fans around the glo...

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Live in THE WORLD - Japan documents a landmark performance at Spotify O-EAST in Shibuya, a venue revered by many Japanese musicians. The event marked Elephant Gym’s first solo concert at this iconic venue and drew a sold-out crowd of over a thousand, a deeply meaningful milestone for this trio of musicians who have long been influenced by Japanese music culture.

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FFO: Sufjan Stevens, Stereolab, Yo La Tengo, Crumb, Broadcast, Steve Reich

Although unbound by genre, Peel Dream Magazine still inhabit the sonic milieu of warm woodland tones and droning repetition. In the entrancing standout “Believer,” they evoke Rose Main Reading Room’s atmosphere through vocalist Olivia Babuka Black’s mantric melodies and Philip Glass-like woodwinds and mallets, bringing Taurus into focus as a welcoming companion piece to its predecessor.

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At the end of 2023, Elephant Gym embarked on a year-long world tour, performing 60 shows across 23 countries. The tour featured sold-out performances in cities such as New York, Tokyo, Paris, and Santiago, Chile. The enthusiastic response from fans around the glo...

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