Posted: by The Alt Editing Staff
The Alternative Weekly Roundup is a column where our staff plugs a variety of new releases in a concise, streamlined format. Albums, singles, videos, and live sets. Check back each Monday to see what we were jamming the week prior.
Momma – “I Want You (Fever)”
At long last Momma’s announced their fourth LP, Welcome to My Blue Sky, the follow-up to 2023’s Household Name. “I Want You (Fever)” is the latest taste we’ve gotten of the album, after last year’s incredible “Ohio All the Time,” and it’s just as good, a warbly, warm alt rock song that doubles down on the most melodic aspects of Household Name. The chorus, a seemingly endless repetition of the title, becomes a mantra by the end.
Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison
ASkySoBlack – Touch Heaven
The thick, dirty alt rock sound ASkySoBlack sharpened on their previous EPs is perfected on their debut full-length Touch Heaven. It’s got shades of Fleshwater and Deftones, sure, but the band’s confidence helps them stand out among throngs of peers mining the same influences. When “Did It All Wrong” collapses into a metallic frenzy at the end, Jordan Shteif wailing himself hoarse–remember his old band?–it’s a genuinely thrilling moment.
Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison
The Tisburys – “Forever”
Philly power-pop savants The Tisburys just announced A Still Life Revisited, out at the end of April, and they’ve released the appropriately springy single “Forever” too. The song’s bouncy and bright, the guitar solo in its bridge cutting against Tyler Asay’s insistence that “Jesus Christ, I’m a loner.”
Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison
Really Great – Be the Light On
On Really Great’s sophomore album, they craft a blend of melodic, inviting indie rock that lands somewhere in between Macseal and The Weakerthans. Be the Light On neatly balances sugar-rush pop rock like lead single “Skateboard Amp” and sub-two-minute “Ride” with drawn-out epics like the dark “Rescue from Without” and the massive, eight-minute closer “The Champion of Things Becoming”–and the coolest part is that “The Champion of Things Becoming” might be the catchiest song here, with easily the gnarliest guitar work.
Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison
Glare – “Guts”
We got an EP from Glare in 2021, and we got one song from them the following year, but the Texas shoegaze icons have been relatively quiet since. At long last, though, they’ve announced their debut full-length; Sunset Funeral is out in early April, and new single “Guts” is the culmination of everything they’ve been working towards since 2017’s Into You. The riffs practically give off a neon glow, and the whole thing rumbles along like it’s trying to break outside of itself. “Decay with me / forget your body” goes the first line of “Guts,” and the rest of the song sounds like what happens when you finally do transcend.
Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison
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