Perfume Genius
Learning
(Matador/Turnstile)
SOUNDS LIKE: A Seattle gay goes home to his mother in the woods of Washington and starts crafting painfully emotional and personal songs with a piano
FREE ASSOCIATION: Every song seems performed on the verge of tears, in a good way
FOR FANS OF: Sufjan Stevens, Xiu Xiu, Antony and the Johnsons, journaling
Lost in the Trees
All Alone in an Empty House
(Anti-/Trekky)
SOUNDS LIKE: A re-issue of the 2008 sophomore LP from North Carolina's Ari Picker and his small army of orchestral and folk friends creating a lush folk pop dream
FREE ASSOCIATION: Ahhh! It's from NC; they got lots a beards n' grass down there
FOR FANS OF: St. Vincent x Joanna Newsom + Bonnie Prince Billy
Buckcherry
All Night Long
(Eleven Seven Music)
SOUNDS LIKE: LA's "hard" rockers were introduced by a tattoo artist nearly 15 years ago and on their fifth you wonder what their secret is; surgery and Monster, methinks
FREE ASSOCIATION: Remember "Crazy Bitch"? Man, that was awesome
FOR FANS OF: AC/DC, Aerosmith, RHCP, Collective Soul, McFadden's
Eli "Paperboy" Reed
Come and Get It!
(Capitol Records)
SOUNDS LIKE: Where is white soul going to go? Not with Eli, the Boston-bred cool dadio whose spin on modern soul, horns section and all, is boring and tepid
FREE ASSOCIATION: Oh, Amy, please snap out of your drunken rage and put out a record
FOR FANS OF: Black Joe Lewis, Sharon Jones, Mayer Hawthorne
Street Sweeper Social Club
The Ghetto Blaster EP
(Gold Village Entertainment)
Sounds Like: Tom Morello and Boots Riley are a duo of '90s-inpsired rap rock activists choosing to fight the good fight with covers of MIA and LL Cool J
FREE ASSOCIATION: Sometimes, nay often, rap and rock do not mix; leave LL be, pls, thx
FOR FANS OF: Rage, The Coup, Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock, fist pumping
Screamin' Cyn Cyn & The Pons
Damn, Girl
(Crustacean Records)
SOUNDS LIKE: Bizzare theatrical punk rock filled with moments of absurdity and rife with curses, male v. female banter and cringe-worthy low budgetness
FREE ASSOCIATION: Kind of like a harder B-52's but they did it right and thirty years ago
FOR FANS OF: Leslie and the LYs, King Khan & BBQ, press-on nails
Dan Mangan
Nice, Nice, Very Nice
(Arts & Crafts)
SOUNDS LIKE: Vancouver songwriter's second is more complex than strums and heartbreak, guests and instruments abound on a lively, thoughtful folk rock record
FREE ASSOCIATION: Moments of melancholy are punctuated by joy and swells of sound
FOR FANS OF: Louder Bon Iver, Jason Collet, Great Lake Swimmers
Mystery Jets
Serotonin
(Rough Trade Records)
SOUNDS LIKE: A grandiose third record from Brits adore XTC and Pink Floyd but here use throwback synths in romantic ways to flavor their baroque power pop
FREE ASSOCIATION: With each LP they change labels and sound, keep em' comin'!
FOR FANS OF: Arcade Fire x ELO, Travis x Smiths, Noah and the Whale
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