{"id":9604,"date":"2022-11-02T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=9604"},"modified":"2022-11-02T22:33:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T02:33:16","slug":"music-update-october-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/02\/music-update-october-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Music update, October 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

October was a big month for new releases, but the one I was probably most excited to hear, Arctic Monkeys\u2019 The Car<\/em>, was a huge, boring disappointment. I wasn\u2019t that enamored of the new albums from Dry Cleaning or Alvvays, to say nothing of larger acts like Taylor Swift or Tegan & Sara. But for lesser-known acts it was a great month, including a bunch of artists I heard for the first time. As always, if you can\u2019t see the widget below, you can access the playlist here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anxious \u2013 Where You Been. <\/strong>This Connecticut punk quintet just dropped their first full-length, Little Green House<\/em>, and it\u2019s one of the year\u2019s best records, including the 2022 single \u201cIn April\u201d (#76 on my top songs of 2021<\/a> ranking), \u201cSunsign,\u201d \u201cCall from You,\u201d and \u201cLet Me.\u201d It\u2019s hard-edged but with a strong melodic sense, too heavy to be punk-pop but too rough-and-ready to be post-punk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lathums \u2013 Say My Name.<\/strong> Anthemic indie rock from Wigan, reminiscent of the Amazons but maybe a bit less slick? Their debut album came out last September, but this is the first track from them I\u2019ve heard, from their upcoming LP From Nothing to a Little Bit More<\/em>, due out February 24th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Reytons \u2013 Avalanche.<\/strong> That opening riff \u2026 it\u2019s Royal Blood, Turbowolf, the Amazons, Death from Above 1979. I can see why this south Yorkshire band are rising stars in the UK. As with the Lathums, they\u2019re new to me, but had an album out last year called The Kids Off the Estate<\/em>; this is from their upcoming album What\u2019s Rock and Roll?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rills \u2013 Landslide.<\/strong> Merseyside lads who nod to the Arctic Monkeys and the Libertines as their primary influences. The B-Side, \u201cSpit Me Out,\u201d is almost as good, and maybe the title is a nod to the refrain of the Monkeys\u2019 \u201cFake Tales of San Francisco?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crawlers \u2013 I Don\u2019t Want It.<\/strong> This Liverpool band reminds me quite a bit of their neighbors The Mysterines, both led by women singers with powerful voices and crunchy guitar rock behind the vocals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black Honey \u2013 Out of My Mind.<\/strong> I\u2019ve been on Black Honey\u2019s wavelength since day one, with \u201cHello Today,\u201d and this track reminds me of a few of their earliest tracks, with a crisper melody and less of the harder edges (which also work) from their second album or this year\u2019s \u201cCharlie Bronson.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CVC \u2013 Good Morning Vietnam.<\/strong> That opening melody line sounds familiar to me, like it might be almost borrowed from something else, but I\u2019m still in on this new Welsh band\u2019s updated psychedelic rock sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inhaler \u2013 Love Will Get You There.<\/strong> I feel like Inhaler has produced enough good new music that we can stop talking about who anyone\u2019s father is, although if you listen to any of their tracks you\u2019ll probably realize how much the lead singer sounds like his dad. I love how their sound feels like an evolution of you-know-who without sounding derivative; here it sounds like they\u2019ve been listening to a bit of Lord Huron, incorporating that kind of folk-rock shuffle into their normal style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Autre ne Veut \u2013 Okay.<\/strong> Arthur Ashin\u2019s first new music in seven years, \u201cOkay\u201d is a lovely track that somehow manages to sound lush without coming off as overwritten or overproduced. Critics tend to describe their music as some form of R&B, but I think that sells it a bit short, with jazzier elements and more electronic work in the backdrop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cumulus \u2013 Teenage Plans.<\/strong> \u201cCan you please slow it down?\/It\u2019s too much change to take.\u201d There are so damn many songs about being a teenager and trying to slow down time to appreciate the moment \u2013 or being older and wishing you\u2019d thought more like that when you were that age \u2013 that it\u2019s rare for something else to break through the monotony, but this new track from Alexandra Lockhart does so, notably with the melody in the chorus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John-Allison Weiss \u2013 Feels Like Hell.<\/strong> I think I liked Weiss\u2019 previous single, \u201cDifferent Now,\u201d better, but this is also some great indie-pop ahead his 2023 album The Long Way<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wombats \u2013 I Think My Mind Has Made Its Mind Up.<\/strong> The second track from the Wombats\u2019 forthcoming EP Is This What It Feels Like to Feel Like This?<\/em>, which will be their second release this year after the full-length LP Fix Yourself, Not the World<\/em>, which all puts them on track to put out the most good new music of any band this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sports Team \u2013 Fingers (Taken Off). <\/strong>Gulp! <\/em>is one of my favorite albums of the year so far, the second full-length album from this London band who just sound so very English between the vocals and the offbeat lyrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cool Greenhouse \u2013 Get Unjaded.<\/strong> Singer\/lyricist Tom Greenhouse has a way with words and packs them into this tight post-punk track, talk-singing his way through a track that slithers like a tritone in search of its resolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Go! Team \u2013 Divebomb.<\/strong> The Go! Team have been around for 22 years, so I\u2019m rather remiss in that this was the first song of theirs I\u2019ve heard. Their mix of samples and various pop styles reminds me a bit of the Space Monkeys\u2019 \u201cSugar Cane\u201d and the more contemporary Bad Sounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young Fathers \u2013 I Saw.<\/strong> Heavy Heavy <\/em>is due out on February 3rd<\/sup>, with this the second very promising single from the Mercury Prize-winning trio, who\u2019ve moved away from their original alternative-rap style to a more experimental lo-fi electronic sound instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Archers of Loaf \u2013 Screaming Undercover.<\/strong> Reason in Decline<\/em> is the first new album in 24 years from this Chapel Hill band, who had a brief run of critical success and built a cult following in the mid-90s with their hard-edged indie rock sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crystal Axis \u2013 Black AF.<\/strong> This is the third single from Crystal Axis, a Nairobi Afro-punk band whose lyrics are a mix of Swahili and English. I found them via this BBC profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pinkshift \u2013 nothing (in my head).<\/strong> One of two tracks from this Baltimore trio\u2019s new EP i\u2019m not crying you\u2019re crying<\/em>. If you wondered what Paramore would sound like if they didn\u2019t suck, this is a pretty good approximation. The title track from the EP is solid too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quicksand \u2013 Fel\u00edz.<\/strong> Another remnant from the Distant Populations<\/em> sessions, but man, if this is what you leave on the cutting room floor, you are doing something very right. This thing rocks with this giant muscular riff that frames the sludgy chorus, where they sound most like the post-hardcore icons they are. They\u2019re on tour right now with Clutch and Helmet, in case you wanted to wonder what year it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blessed \u2013 Anything.<\/strong> This Canadian art-rock band announced their second full-length album, Circuitous<\/em>, and released this lead single, which has a very doom- or sludge-metal feel without the big crunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gojira \u2013 Our Time Is Now.<\/strong> I\u2019ve been listening to less metal overall this year, but I will stop traffic for a new Gojira song, and this track has a glorious opening followed by some intense riffing in the verse before the bottom-heavy chorus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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