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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.
0 Miles Per Hour – Shell
On Shell, their first EP for Armageddon Records, Orlando’s 0 Miles Per Hour mine their post-hardcore, shoegaze, and emo influences to put together a collection that calls to mind a variety of other artists without ever feeling derivative.
Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison
Doom Mutual – “Disappear”
Nashville-based alternative rock band Doom Mutual blends their grunge and shoegaze influences with pure magnetism on their latest single “Disappear,” and the band’s dual vocals play off of one another in a way that’s captivating in its otherworldliness. As someone who can’t get enough of ‘90s-influenced alternative, it’s an absolute joy to listen to.
Loan Pham | x_loanp
Gol Olímpico – “pasan los días”
I hear some Rika, as well as early The World Is and Foxing, on Gol Olímpico’s dreamy debut single “pasan los días.” It’s that same kind of sweeping, hazy emo those bands did so well with lusher production. I’m sure it’ll be rewarding to watch Gol Olímpico grow from here.
Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison
Linying – “Dial Tone”
La-based Singaporean pop singer Linying has released another single ahead of her new record Swim, Swim. On “Dial Tone,” she references toxic masculinity atop a dazzling sonic landscape mixed somewhere between soft R&B and introspective bedroom pop. It’s groovy, mesmeric, and chirpy.
Hope Ankney
Bnny – “Love Trap”
After her dazzling 2024 album, One Million Love Songs, Chicago’s Bnny is back with “Love Trap” via Fire Talk Records. The record, which garnered widespread acclaim, attempts to navigate the millions of ways we express love and the millions of ways it shapes our lives, and singer Jessica Viscius continues her quest to articulate this universal yet deeply personal phenomenon on “Love Trap.” The breathy single, which comes from the One Million Love Songs recording process, tingles with feedback. Thick distortion clouds her whispers before she explodes into a guttural gasp, making for one of the loudest tracks across their soul-baring discography. Along with this melancholic new single, the band announced a string of tour dates supporting Kim Deal, Peach Pit, and Briston Maroney–some of the their largest shows yet.
Giliann Karon | @lethalrejection
Frog – 1000 Variations on the Same Song
Despite its title, 1000 Variations on the Same Song might be Frog’s most diverse album yet. On their sixth LP, the Bateman brothers get loungier than ever before on top of building off the alt-country of their last two albums; there’s also a helping of down-the-middle indie rock–the back-to-back “DOOMSCROLLING VAR. II” and “WHERE DO I SIGN VAR. III” are a little bit Built to Spill and a little bit Dismemberment Plan simultaneously. The latter, in particular, is one of the very best Frog tracks yet.
Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison
Dax Riggs – 7 Songs for Spiders
At the start of every year I never really know how long it’ll take before something piques my interest musically. In this case, it took Dax Riggs resurfacing with his new southern gothic album 7 Songs for Spiders late last month. Fifteen years after 2010’s Say Goodnight to the World, and ahead of his Louisiana sludge metal band Acid Bath’s live return, Riggs seemingly hasn’t missed a step and continues delivering engrossing soulful ballads with an air of mystique that has me listening to little else.
Loan Pham | x_loanp
Tourneforte – “Love Letters”
Almost a year to the day since their Notes from a Lost Dog LP, Tourneforte is back with their first song since. With “Love Letters” the Columbia, SC, emos have crafted one of their catchiest and biggest songs yet, a four-minute rumination on failed relationships and lost futures.
Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison
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