On the whole, FOREVER is bring some solid straight ahead rock mixed with just the right dose of unexpectedly pleasant offbeat instrumentation. A crunchy 8-bit keyboard line mixed with a xylophone solo (”Love in Tennis”) or an alarm-bell guitar line (”Kismet”) are mixed effortless with jangly guitars and driving drums.

For the duration of 2016, Magic in Threes released one song every Friday. That ended up being 53 new tracks in total. They’ve compiled them all together for your listening pleasure. 

As today marks the inaugration of Donald Trump as our 45th President, it’s fitting that Peter McCarville and Gezellig Records have released a new compilation entitled Is There Another Language? featuring the likes of Mount Eerie, Surfer Blood, Dean & Britta and Nashville’s very own Lylas.

All proceeds go to benefit the ACLU. You can read more about it here.

For fans of shoegaze-y, space-y rock; spend some time with the demonstration recordings from A D O R E. There’s no vocals, just instrumental tracks that sound like they may be directly inspired by Failure and their ilk. 

Joshua Moore continues his song-a-month exploration as V to Z with this new track “Sour Mouth.” It’s interesting to go back to the first full batch and hear how the focus of instrumentation has changed over the past year. 

The Lees of Memory have been putting out short run, non-LP tracks via Velocity Of Sound Records for the past year. You can now hear those tracks compiled digitally for the first time. Be sure not to miss “All-Powerful You” backed by “ouY lufrewoP-llA” – the reverse track.

In what may be the wordiest album title since Fiona Apple made her mark in 1999, Jota Ese returns with an album of laid back, tripped out hip-hop. 

I am firm believer that album art is a legitimate tool for enticing new listeners into your music. It certainly sets the stage for the music within and, if compelling enough, can garner completely virgin interest. These are obvious statements.

Such is the case with Elite Geographic’s vaporwave EP, Computer Creative. I knew immediately what to expect and it delivers. It’s a drugged out, ambient soundscape that pulls heavily from the genre’s primary structures.