The New Alt

Here's your cheat sheet for everything new in the rock/alt world. Cover: WILLOW

New Noise

No rules. No boundaries. Just cool music you need to hear. Cover: Arrested Youth

Our favorite new music releases from 2/18/22.

Friday Release Picks (2/18/22)

A compilation of all the rock releases we've recommended. This list will be updated in alphabetical order.

Our Favorite Rock Releases

Prock Punk - 2

New2 - 3

Chillthefuckout.

Colorado

Re-Up

Surf Curse - freaks

No Love In LA / Punching Bag

No Love In LA

Family

Young Dumb

It Won't Always Be Like This

In My Sleep

Gettin' to Me

Once Twice Melody

Superstar

Don't Go Throwing Roses In My Grave

Take My Heart (I'll Take Yours Too)

If I Didn't Tell You First

Screaming Bloody Murder

What Am I To Say (Album Version)

Cosmic Surgery

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/blooming_12

2022 may bring much much uncertainty to the world but one thing we know for a fact is that we are introducing our most innovative and intriguing new act in years – the French duo Archil & Leon with their five track debut (appropriately called) “Blooming”.

Having both released in the past independently, Archil & Leon were originally brought together thanks to their teenage band His Majesty and from there, their passion to create music together never has faltered. Leon is a veteran session and live drummer who also produces music for his own dance project Ongaeshi and the dance collective moovance. Archil is an accomplished solo electronic musician and the force behind Archil Lab handmade musical devices. Using elements like springs (Springophone) and wheels (Roulettophone), his instruments are lovingly manufactured in wood and somehow carry the characteristics of modular gear but in the most unconventional way possible.

At a first listen, Archil & Leon’s music comes off as a well oiled live jam but as you dig deeper, it’s clear these tracks have a precision and style that separates them into a category of their own. Their EP “Blooming” is the result of two full years of being locked in their studio, writing and experimenting together. Indeed, an underlying flow of 70’s funk permeates throughout their music, however pigeonholing them into such a stereotype would be a travesty as they have impeccable song writing skills and their self made instruments conjure an experimentalism which is through and through rooted in electronic music. We can only hope that fans of now-classic Jamie Lidell / Super_Collider will appreciate where they are coming from, and you agree their “sound” is brilliantly individual. After all, they created their tracks literally from the ground up.

Archil & Leon - Loving You

Egyptian Cadillac

Piano Sonata in B Flat Minor 'Funeral March', Op. 35 No. 2 - III. Marche Funebre

Recollection

Zach Bryan

East Side of Sorrow

CHILDREN OF THE DARK

CHROMAKOPIA

Tomorrow

Vicious Love (feat. Hayley Williams)

DISC3 『キャサリン・フルボディ』サウンドトラック

YO (Acid Jazz ver.) (Full Body)

Order In Decline

Out For Blood

What Separates Me From You

This Is The House That Doubt Built

Neither Here, Nor There

"Freaks" from the upcoming album "Buds" by Reno, Nevada's Surf Curse. Coming soon on Big Joy. June 2013

Recorded at The Smell in Los Angeles by AJM (Moses Campbell)



Surf Curse "Freaks"

1 Last Cigarette

Re-Up

A Will Away