The latest from Fumble is a further exploration of bedroom pop founded in electronic sounds, dreamy atmospheres and ambient soundscapes. There’s also a few more upbeat tracks that feel  more like riding along a swiftly moving cloud through a sea of colors but without the assumed heavy drug use that comes with that. Oh, and one nightmare fuel track that certainly will haunt you if you ever wake up from a bad heroin dose in the streets of 1980′s New York.

Oddly, this record is set for release on Jan 2016. Which means we’re either looking at a clerical error or hearing sounds from the future. I fully accept either one.

Surely you are familiar with the works of Casey Neistat, a director and designer that found some popularity through his YouTube channel and New York Times reports. This piece on Bike Lanes is one of my favorites.

Regardless, every episode has music and that music is coming straight out of Murfreesboro, TN. Courtesy of Taylor Galford, aka The Heisman. This compilation is the fifth in the series so if you enjoy some engaging beats, you’ve got a lot of additional material to pore through. 

If you were somehow not aware, Joey Kneiser and Kelly Smith make up a good 20% of Glossary (I did the math), so hopefully you’re familiar with their vocal goodness. Live from Standard Deluxe is a stripped down fifteen song set from the Waverly, Alabama venue – Standard Deluxe. They run through some Glossary tunes and their own independent creations as well but, mainly, they’ve created a wonderful recording of an environment where their voices, lyrics and honest emotive expression of the two are the forefront. 

New track from The Ettes set for release on Cassette Store Day 2015.

I love stumbling upon surprising gems like the latest from catfish. It’s a quiet affair but sets an excellent mood. The emotive vocals are pleasantly augmented by the pedal steel or well executed backing vocals. I’m not sure what more to expect from this outfit but I’m liking what I’m hearing – it seems a pleasant accompaniment to a warm summer TN night.

 previously? Well, he enlisted the help of T Rust for one of the recent tracks, Society.  Less than 90 seconds isn’t much for a song but it’s just long enough to whet your appetite to hear more… 

There are lyrics inside this two track EP but they only register as additional noise and torment to the already massive wall of sound trudging its way towards you. Proud to have bands from Nashville creating music that sounds like the gates of Hell have been opened and the house band is working its way across the land decimating all in their path.

Take a look at a sample of the lyrics from this Pornography track:

these are my failures
I do not want to get better
I want to be so much worse
I don’t look forward
I only look back
I am not present

If you didn’t guess, the music behind those words is huge booming doom rock with guttural howls announcing that less-than-healthy mindset. In other words, someone in Nashville is doing dark metal correctly.

Labeling yourself as Folk or Americana can be a tricky genre to pull off – as you run the risk of hurdling yourself off a cliff of pretentiousness and shallow performances. Damned Rivers manage to avoid the pitfalls and stay on the enjoyable side by embracing their slightly off kilter vocals. This kind of disaster avoidance should be rewarded. 

The (largely) instrumental, electronic explorations of BRLY are not something you encounter very often in the Nashville music scene. There’s hints of Prefuse73 influence – infusing hip-hop style beats and more chilled out electronica. In just a quick four tracks, it covers a lot of ground.