NZCA Lines: Infinite Summer
NZCA Lines’ (pronounced NAHZ-ca) second album is pleasant, fun electro-pop with some sci-fi themes. The main jam is deff "Two Hearts."
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The Ocean Party: Light Weight
If you like mellow tunes, meaningful lyrics, or Australian accents, this is the album for you.
Wray: Hypatia
Wonderful shoegaze from the deep south.
Shearwater: Jet Plane and Oxbow
The art-folk-rock group's first album in four years is a welcome change in direction.
Night Beats: Who Sold My Generation
Nights Beats hail from Seattle and craft an upbeat, distorted, twangy garage rock album consisting of '60s psych rock with a groovy twist.
Daughter: Not to Disappear
Not to Disappear is spacey and new-age while retaining Daughter's contemplative style.
Hinds: Leave Me Alone
Many tracks on Leave Me Alone seem to be the garage rock lovechild of Girlpool, Courtney Barnett and Best Coast.
Mozes and the Firstborn: Mozes and the Firstborn
Mozes and the Firstborn craft irresistible garage (or basement) rock on their self-titled, debut LP.
Devin Sinha: Our Past and Present Futures
A folk rock album worth a listen if not solely for the time and effort Sinha has put into it.
Atlantic Thrills: Vices
Surf music, crystalline post-rock and indie attitude masquerade as garage punk in a jovial and contemplative array of compositions.
Baroness: Purple
Baroness is back! Purple finds them perfecting their potent mix of sludge, hard rock, stoner rock and progressive rock for new audiences.
The Besnard Lakes: A Coliseum Complex Museum
Besnard Lake lies in the beautiful forested country of Saskatchewan pockmarked by deep blue lakes, & is the summer land of inspiration for Montreal based artist of the same name.
Berwanger: Demonios
Once a member of former Lawrence rock band The Anniversary circa the 1990s, Demonios is the latest from Josh Berwanger.
Yak: No
It's too bad that the No EP is only three songs because it's exceptional.
Slaughter Beach: Love/Venice
There is so much room for error in the genre that often sees bands walking a thin line between synth wizard and white noise. Slaughter Beach defies that line.
Cristobal and the Sea: Sugar Now
Sugar Now does what a lot of albums can't as it exists as a patchwork of many visible influences while still succeeding in getting lost in itself.
Avaberee: In Your Arms I Found My Secrets
Australian girl group, Avaberee, has an evolving, natural flow with its harmony-focused sound and heartfelt lyrics.
Useless Eaters: Live in San Francisco
The new live album from Useless Eaters, Live In San Francisco, is here.
Ty Segall: Ty Rex
eHarmony would be drooling over this: T. Rex and Tyrannosaurus tweaked to Ty Segall's liking.
Helvetia: Dromomania
Helvetia is difficult to pinpoint or pigeonhole, but when they come together, the results are oddly entrancing.
Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and The Rajasthan Express: Junun
Flourishes of contemporary rock or electronic familiarity throughout Junun are only flashes in a pan of rich cultural composition and heritage.
Aquila Young: Distance Echoes
Aquila Young is an up and coming alternative artist whose work and lifestyle both contain an intriguing air of mystery.
Yonatan Gat: Director
Psych rock + world influenced percussion + garage punk + lyrics in 3 different languages + jazz + surf riffs = face happily melted.
Rare Monk: Rare Monk
Remember that Death Cab for Cutie phase that we all faced during our adolescent years? This Rare Monk EP will bring back those feels again.