Just look at that photo. Isn’t it great? That dude up there is Chad, and he fronts garage rock grease-heads Chad and the Meatbodies. When’s the last time you heard a band name that oozed cool as much as one like that? Probably NEVER. There’s something far cooler about Chad and his band than their name though, and that’s the fact they’re one half of a Less Artists More Condos 7” split with the one and only Ty fuckin’ Segall. The rock’n’roll meter is OFF THE CHAIN. On ‘Mountain’, the riffs slay, the hooks thrash and your head will flail like it’s never heard rock music before. Plus, y’know, desert boots.  <a href=”http://famousclass.bandcamp.com/album/lamc-7” data-mce-href=”http://famousclass.bandcamp.com/album/lamc-7”>LAMC # 7 by Ty Segall / Chad & The Meatbodies</a> LAMC #7 is out now via Famous Class. You should buy it, because the money goes to charity, and it’s about time you did something productive with your life.
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Just look at that photo. Isn’t it great? That dude up there is Chad, and he fronts garage rock grease-heads Chad and the Meatbodies. When’s the last time you heard a band name that oozed cool as much as one like that? Probably NEVER. There’s something far cooler about Chad and his band than their name though, and that’s the fact they’re one half of a Less Artists More Condos 7” split with the one and only Ty fuckin’ Segall. The rock’n’roll meter is OFF THE CHAIN. On ‘Mountain’, the riffs slay, the hooks thrash and your head will flail like it’s never heard rock music before. Plus, y’know, desert boots. 

LAMC #7 is out now via Famous Class. You should buy it, because the money goes to charity, and it’s about time you did something productive with your life.

I was listening to Jon Hillcock’s excellent All Back No Front podcast earlier today when he played a track by Brooklyn’s Hani Zahra, describing it as having “possibly the catchiest chorus [he’s] heard in years”. ‘Cannibal Corpse (Wait Wait Wait)’ definitely lives up to that hype. It’s a fuzzy, hook-laden indie pop jam that sounds a bit like the Black Lips if they were only to grow up a bit (please don’t though Black Lips, that’s why I love you), with beautiful Beach Boys-esque harmonies and wibbly-wobbly synths that make you feel like you’re stumbling drunk through a dream where you’re working for the FBI. On a cannibal crime. Wait wait wait wait! <a href=”http://hanizahra.bandcamp.com/track/cannibal-crime-wait-wait-wait-3” data-mce-href=”http://hanizahra.bandcamp.com/track/cannibal-crime-wait-wait-wait-3”>Cannibal Crime (Wait Wait Wait) by Hani Zahra</a> Along Those Lines is out now on Bandcamp, Spotify and iTunes and was self-released by the band. 
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I was listening to Jon Hillcock’s excellent All Back No Front podcast earlier today when he played a track by Brooklyn’s Hani Zahra, describing it as having “possibly the catchiest chorus [he’s] heard in years”. ‘Cannibal Corpse (Wait Wait Wait)’ definitely lives up to that hype. It’s a fuzzy, hook-laden indie pop jam that sounds a bit like the Black Lips if they were only to grow up a bit (please don’t though Black Lips, that’s why I love you), with beautiful Beach Boys-esque harmonies and wibbly-wobbly synths that make you feel like you’re stumbling drunk through a dream where you’re working for the FBI. On a cannibal crime. Wait wait wait wait!

Along Those Lines is out now on Bandcamp, Spotify and iTunes and was self-released by the band. 

This is a pleasant, lethargic lo-fi surprise from everyone’s favourite genuine slacker Mat Cothran, AKA Coma Cinema or, in this case, Elvis Depressedly. Cothran’s been tweeting about new material coming out from both projects for some time now, and we finally get a taste of what he’s been working on with this track ‘Weird Honey’. Yep, it’s weird; yep, it’s hypnagogic and yep, it’s comfortably depressing in a consoling kind of way. You know, like that feeling you get deep down when a relationship ends bitterly but you still feel something for the other person nonetheless. 
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This is a pleasant, lethargic lo-fi surprise from everyone’s favourite genuine slacker Mat Cothran, AKA Coma Cinema or, in this case, Elvis Depressedly. Cothran’s been tweeting about new material coming out from both projects for some time now, and we finally get a taste of what he’s been working on with this track ‘Weird Honey’. Yep, it’s weird; yep, it’s hypnagogic and yep, it’s comfortably depressing in a consoling kind of way. You know, like that feeling you get deep down when a relationship ends bitterly but you still feel something for the other person nonetheless. 

Weirdo pop. It’s a fascinating genre isn’t it? You might not necessarily consider yourself a weirdo per se, but I know for a fact if I try and introduce my friends to Lou Breed they’re more than likely to turn around and brand me one. But who cares? I’m really into Jeremy Daly’s music - especially his new record Stoned Out Two: Morning of The Way To Love - because at the end of the day it’s just bloody good. Whilst most of the record dips in and out of sultry tropical pop and dazed, dirty drones, standout track ‘Fellow Americans’ consists of an upbeat, Panda Bear-esque afrobeat with a groove that’ll have you thinking that the sun is shining even when it’s torrential outside. Daly’s voice is wondrous too: he’s got a gruff, eager delivery not unlike the way Willis Earl Beal has a soulful and brittle croon. Only with Reed, there’s far more fun to be had with his tunes in comparison to Beal’s lovelorn tapedeck troubles.  <a href=”http://loubreed.bandcamp.com/track/fellow-americans” data-mce-href=”http://loubreed.bandcamp.com/track/fellow-americans”>Fellow Americans by Lou Breed</a> Stoned Out Two: Morning of The Way To Love is out now on cassette via Icecapades. 
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Weirdo pop. It’s a fascinating genre isn’t it? You might not necessarily consider yourself a weirdo per se, but I know for a fact if I try and introduce my friends to Lou Breed they’re more than likely to turn around and brand me one. But who cares? I’m really into Jeremy Daly’s music - especially his new record Stoned Out Two: Morning of The Way To Love - because at the end of the day it’s just bloody good.

Whilst most of the record dips in and out of sultry tropical pop and dazed, dirty drones, standout track ‘Fellow Americans’ consists of an upbeat, Panda Bear-esque afrobeat with a groove that’ll have you thinking that the sun is shining even when it’s torrential outside. Daly’s voice is wondrous too: he’s got a gruff, eager delivery not unlike the way Willis Earl Beal has a soulful and brittle croon. Only with Reed, there’s far more fun to be had with his tunes in comparison to Beal’s lovelorn tapedeck troubles. 

Stoned Out Two: Morning of The Way To Love is out now on cassette via Icecapades. 

Here’s something that sounds like a piña colada hangover if I’ve ever heard one. Hailing from Gothenburg even though they sound like they belong on the sun-kissed shores of Hawaii, M.O.U.S.T.A.D (or is it just Moustad? Their pseudo-internet mysteriousness has me baffled) have just dropped their debut, self-titled album, and by dropped I mean like an incomprehensible headache drops on you halfway through the third day of a tropical booze cruise. Seriously: just one listen to ‘Skùgga’ will have you nodding in agreement with me when I say that it sounds like Fair Ohs got absurdly drunk, listened to Merriweather Post Pavillion for hours on end whilst on vacation and proceeding to stumble down the road with sweat rolling off their foreheads. Sounds like a good time, right? M.O.U.S.T.A.D is out now via Fixe Records. Cheers to Music Fans Mic via PORTALS for turning me on to this tune!
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Here’s something that sounds like a piña colada hangover if I’ve ever heard one. Hailing from Gothenburg even though they sound like they belong on the sun-kissed shores of Hawaii, M.O.U.S.T.A.D (or is it just Moustad? Their pseudo-internet mysteriousness has me baffled) have just dropped their debut, self-titled album, and by dropped I mean like an incomprehensible headache drops on you halfway through the third day of a tropical booze cruise. Seriously: just one listen to ‘Skùgga’ will have you nodding in agreement with me when I say that it sounds like Fair Ohs got absurdly drunk, listened to Merriweather Post Pavillion for hours on end whilst on vacation and proceeding to stumble down the road with sweat rolling off their foreheads. Sounds like a good time, right?

M.O.U.S.T.A.D is out now via Fixe Records. Cheers to Music Fans Mic via PORTALS for turning me on to this tune!