“LIFE 🎶✨”
Pen to tape, no blueprints required: Matt DeMello's Jennifer's Appendix, Vol. 1 raids the vault for GarageBand demos, voice memos, and garage-rock pivots — covers of Simon, Springsteen, and the Beach Boys orbiting originals that point toward "emotionally maximalist" worlds to come. Alexei Shishkin's Good Times captures a "lucid yet fleeting four-day escape from reality" built on surrealist automatism and loose bass lines, while Solid Blood's Western Sun channels math-y, dreamy, emotive post-rock from the founder of Rue Defence. Barrelly Ego's Bearly Eagle tackles a decade of socio-geo-political upheaval with cathartic allegorical bite — the bear who wants to be an eagle who cried wolf.