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.
Goodbye Wudaokou
Mirror Skies (re-issue)
Mirror Skies traverses themes of lost love, yearning, childhood, legacy and the beauty and danger of living in the past across a kaleidoscopic array of tracks, ranging from jangly dream pop to shoegaze, post-punk, alt rock and well, just out and out pop.