Albums in Stores – May 21st, 2021

Sinai vessel have released a new track which compliments the excellent album from last year (if you like deathcab you’d dig it)

will be checking out

Downhaul (emo, punk, alt)
Trade wind (alt/indie)
Good sleepy (emo, math)

 

Voice and music similar to John Mayer, but different

 

Patrick Droney (more pop-rock oriented John Mayer)
Mat Kearney
Twenty One Pilots
Christoffer Franzen (Lights&Motion)
We Were Sharks

Pretty stacked day for me. Big hopes for Droney and Kearney, especially.

 

ALBUMS/EPs:
August Burns Red
An Autumn For Crippled Children
Ayron Jones
Delilah Bon (solo project of Lauren Tate from Hands Off Gretel)
The Devil Wears Prada
Eskimo Callboy
Fiddlehead
Gary Numan
Kaonashi
Monster Magnet
Northlane
One Morning Left
Penfriend
Pop Evil
Tokky Horror
Trade Wind
Twenty One Pilots
VEXED
VOLA
Waterparks
Yautja

 

OLIVIA RODRIGO

plus Mannequin Pussy, Fly Pan Am, Counting Crows, Downhaul, and Fiddlehead.

 

Fuck! I forgot fiddlehead came out today! Hell yeah

 

Olivia Rodrigo - 'SOUR'
Good Sleepy - 'everysinglelittlebit'
Patrick Droney - 'State of the Heart'
Mat Kearney - 'January Flower'
Fiddlehead - 'Between The Richness'

 

Looking forward to checking out new Fly Pan Am.

 

Albums/EPs:
Waterparks - pop rock
Deadlights - post hardcore
Kaonashi - post hardcore/screamo
Downhaul - indie rock
Good Sleepy - emo
We Were Sharks - pop punk
Trade Wind - rock
Just Friends EP - pop/funk idk, there’s a Lil B feature on here

Singles:
Bad Luck - pop punk/rock
Neck Deep (acoustic) - pop punk
Hundredth (remix) - dream pop
Capstan - pop punk
Boys of Fall (acoustic) - pop punk
Super Whatevr - emo rock
As December Falls - female fronted pop punk
Lakes - emo rock
Hazel - alt/rock
Almost Made the Mixtape - pop punk
Vaines - pop
Featherburn - “Accordion-powered romp-rock”
Lions Lions - post hardcore

Spotify playlist link:

 

We Were Sharks on repeat all day!

 

Some cool shit out today. Looking forward to that Counting Crows EP, and the Olivia Rodrigo album is fucking great. Sign me up for THAT being the direction that pop music goes in the next five years.

Also looking forward to the new Mat Kearney record, which, based on a pretty stellar string of singles, will be both a strong bounceback from his last album and a great summer album.

 

VOLA, been looking forward to this one for a while, singles rule

 

TDWP

 

The big ones for me today:
Twenty One Pilots
Mat Kearney (agree on all the comments that this is his comeback album)

Others I'll check out:
Dayglow
Ayron Jones
Fiddlehead
Patrick Droney
Downhaul
Pop Evil
Good Sleepy
Trade Wind
Lord Huron

 

Happy Fiddlehead day!!!

other than that:

twenty one pilots
Downhaul
Mannequin Pussy
The Devil Wears Prada
Good Sleepy
Wolves & Machines from a few weeks back

 

Olivia
Fiddlehead
Good Sleepy
Mannequin Pussy

 

TDWP. So good.
August Burns Red - Leveler re-recorded version

 

I must be old because I do not get Olivia Rodrigo at all. And I’m not opposed to pop at all. I love Taylor, Dua Lipa and others. Olivia had a vocal style I just can’t get into…but maybe I’ll give it another listen since you’re a fan!

 

See, I really like Olivia because she’s a very clear student of Taylor’s songwriting. I’ve been skeptical of some of the recent breakout pop stars (I don’t get the Billie Eilish thing at all, for instance), but I think Olivia is a smarter lyricist and a better melodist (and singer) than most of what has been on the pop charts lately.

 

That first song (brutal) is pretty damn punk. Gonna check out the rest to see what I think.

 

Interesting. Maybe SNL didn’t give me a good idea of what she can do. It was two very different songs. The vocals sounded weird. But maybe in the context of the album the stylistic shifts make sense…!
PS. I also don’t get Billie at all!

 

There's some definite pop-punk influence here and there.

 

I often find SNL performances are underwhelming. The live versions of "Driver's License" I've seen definitely don't do that song justice.

 

New dayglow is very good