Bedroom pop dispatches from the underground: No Museums juxtaposes fuzz that whirrs and grinds with the most jangly of melodic underlays across a fourth double album of vibrant, prolific output. Auditory Cortex paints a mural of grief and impending doom across two hard-won songs years in the making, while som som delivers a lo-fi banger about getting pulled out of the gutter with moody verses erupting into euphoric, explosive choruses. Glass Dolls bring Montreal bedroom pop and post-punk through love, loss, and grief, and La Mano de Cervantes rounds it out with ten unpretentious, self-produced power pop slices driven by a purely underground spirit.
Hamlet
Outdoor Drama
like early R.E.M. or any number of other groups, obscure to popular, ranging from North Carolina to New Zealand and beyond