Shabason, Krgovich & Harris - Philadelphia
Philadelphia is both timely and timeless.
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Pansy Boys - Seasons of Doubt
In a healthier, pre-COVID world, my hands would (consensually) grab a stranger’s shoulders as I, out of breath, whisper out the album’s Bandcamp tags - “alternative pop…. folk… lush… queer…”, and faint into a bed of roses.
Marie Davidson & L’Œil Nu - Renegade Breakdown
Davidson is confident. Just as confident as she was on Working Class Woman, except now she really gets to put her unflappability to work.
In With the New: 2020 Reader Survey Results
New Feeling's 2020 reader survey results
featuring Cadence Weapon, Dusty Lee, and Paul Carpenter
Mother Tongues - Everything You Wanted
RIYL: Stereolab/Broadcast; psychedelia; being moodyEverything You Wanted, by Mother Tongues6 track albumbuzz recordsowlgoddess
I’m not sure whether Mother Tongues would welcome or wince at a likening to psych-rock royalty Melody’s Echo Chamber. Like Melody, the Toronto band’s influences take centre stage on their debut release, where
Martyn Bootyspoon - Lickety Split
RIYL: being whispered to; not-so-serious technoLickety Split, by Martyn Bootyspoon5 track albumMartyn Bootyspoongloomyheron
Is that the ice cream truck? Shit - even better - it’s the “Ice Cream Mane” rolling through, here to “sample you some flavours/giving some taste of what you need.” Martyn Bootyspoon delivers on this
No Joy - Motherhood
RIYL: experimental shoegaze; A Sunny Day in Glasgow; being unsureMotherhood, by No Joy11 track albumNo JoyNo Joy
From projection to certainty, to questioning, to acceptance, back to indecision. The weight that others press onto a perceived biological imperative can and will cut deep into the strongest of resolves. Motherhood? What