Week wrap: new singles plus everything else I wrote about this week including books, music, and more
Jump to new releases, this week’s music posts, or things to read.
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Summer’s over, the long weekend is here. I’m actually looking forward to fall a little bit – my kid being on routine adds a little more discipline to the week, and not having a teenager looking for things to do lets me get more work done.
There’s always a rush of big releases in the fall, in the runup to end-of-year lists, awards season, and Christmas shopping, I’m looking forward to things getting super busy. There are a lot of records coming out in the next couple months that I’m excited about too: Vitesse X, Jagged Baptist Club, Warm Human, and more.
And now it’s business time:
Listen
Here is this week’s playlist for Apple Music and Spotify
New Singles from Blog Faves
- Blog fave and industrial/electronic weirdos Melt Motif (Bergen, Norway) are back with a super sinister new single, “Possessed“. I’m embarrassed I missed this!
- Jagged Baptist Club (Los Angeles) released surprise track “Slid Out in the Sunroom“, psyche-tinged rock for the patio. I can’t get enough of these guys.
- Warm Human (Chicago) released “My Moods!!“, the second track in the runup to the new record – it’s summery indie pop with creative and smart lyrics
- Rêverie (Amsterdam) released their new single “Obsessed” – highly catchy hyperpop
- Vitesse X (NYC) released soaring, dreamy electronic earworm “Careless“. Each single from this album is better than the last
- Sunflower Bean (NYC) released their second single of 2024, “Teach Me To Be Bad” – killer throwback rock and roll
Singles from new artists (to me)
- Rosewater Park (Toronto) released their debut single “Inside” back in July. It’s a gorgeous, loungey, late-night vibe
- Lia Kuri (Montreal) released “Cyclone“, the first single from the upcoming electronic record Motherland
- Julie Dawson (Galway, of New Dad) released the second solo track of 2024, “Bottom of the Pool“, and announced the album of the same name (Sept 13)
- Ali Wolverton (Los Angeles?) released her second single called “Limbo“, a pop ballad with a gorgeous vocal
From the blog
A song from each of these artists is on the playlists: Apple Music and Spotify
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Seeing it Now
Swim School
Manchester
Seeing it Now by Swim School has been on my playlist for months. I don’t know why they’re not already on this website …read more
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MATTER EP
THE NONE
London
THE NONE is fierce, aggressive and incredible punk rock. Their debut EP Matter and performance videos are stunning …read more
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Say it Back
Golda May
Los Angeles
Golda May’s gorgeous voice and inventive, surpising lyrics make for a fantastic and varied indie record. …read more
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singles
&tilly
Prague
&tilly pairs hushed fragile vocals with rich production to make gorgeous, haunting and memorable electro-indie-pop music. One of my favourite discoveries of the year …read more
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Skin
HANNAHBELLA
Cork
HANNAHBELLA often plays the obsessive, infatuated girlfriend in her music. It’s infectious, fun, genre-bending pop. …read more
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No. 7
Red Ivory
London
Red Ivory has two great songs on streaming platforms and a new live recording of some killer new material. …read more
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Short things
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Week wrap – August 30, 2024
Week wrap: new singles plus everything else I wrote about for the last two weeks including books, music, and more …read more
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One Million Checkboxes: The kids are alright
One Million Checkboxes was an internet nerd hit this summer. It was also vandalized. It’s a nerdy and fantastic detective story …read more
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Brilliant but grim creative nonfiction
Three excellent but difficult pieces of creative nonfiction. …read more
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Four short stories by Sara McKinney
Sara McKinney’s new and very short story led me to a jackpot of fantastic, disturbing writing. …read more
Book reviews
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Hum
byHelen Phillips
Hum struggles both as a near-future dystopia and as a family drama. The premise is a good one, but for me it didn’t deliver …read more
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Craft
byAnanda Lima
Ananda Lima’s short stories bring a creepy and weird twist to her literary fiction about modern America. It’s not traditional horror, it’s better …read more
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Slow Days, Fast Company
byEve Babitz
In Slow Days, Fast Company, Eve Babitz is outrageous, hilarious, crude and brilliant. I could read a thousand pages of this …read more
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
byBetty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is an American classic. Written for middle schoolers but brilliant no matter your age. …read more
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Something you wrote or made? Something you just think more people should see?