Jangle, crunch, and catharsis: Rural France's SLOTHS is their jangliest, most baroque album yet — organs, horns, mellotron and all — while still honoring the "Pavement playing Teenage Fanclub" mission statement, celebrating the absurdities of getting older with Silver Jews-esque Americana and loser anthems. Publicity Department's S. Michael Brook And The Steam-Powered Trains delivers half an hour of crunchy guitars and two-part vocal harmonies, power pop influences distorted through 90s alt-rock sensibilities. Ben Auld's Loserdom channels blown-out power-pop with Bach-inspired guitar solos and layered harmonies, turning personal upheaval into a sardonic rock opera that never overstays its welcome. Barrelly Ego's Bearly Eagle offers a cathartic socio-geo-political anthology — the allegorical bear that wants to be an eagle — while The B Roads' Nowhere Fast maps a post-rock jazz-folk road trip through yearning, folklore, and the endless middle-England road.

Indie Rock releases

Anomalous Trackologies Split by Haggari Nakashe cover art

“'Anomalous Trackologies Split' is a ten track noise rock weirdo extravaganza by y Heavy Insect // Haggari Nakashe & gaop”