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Yuno – Moodie EP (2018)
Summertime music often elicits a certain amount of carefreeness and celebration, but some of the season’s best songs are heartbroken messages wrapped in a sugar-sweet coating. Sub Pop’s latest act Yuno...
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Luluc – Sculptor (2018)
Australian folk duo Luluc follow-up their deeply enchanting 2014 LP Passerby with Sculptor, a largely self-produced, self-recorded set that leans out dramatically from the quiet introspection of its...
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Deaf Wish – Lithium Zion (2018)
There’s an inherent flaw in the perennially alternating “rock is back” and “rock is dead” arguments: they are based on the idea that rock music is a logic-based choice a person consciously chooses to...
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Cullen Omori – The Diet (2018)
Cullen Omori‘s path to his second album The Diet wasn’t an easy one. After the release of his first album, New Misery, he had to deal with busted vans, crashed cars, mangled relationships, and other...
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Iron & Wine – Weed Garden EP (2018)
For fans of Iron & Wine, it’s Christmas in August. Weed Garden is a six-track EP including songs written by Sam Beam mostly while working toward his last full album, Beast Epic, and they sound very...
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Mass Gothic – I’ve Tortured You Long Enough (2018)
Mass Gothic return with a record that finds the husband-and-wife duo on equal footing. Whereas their 2016 debut felt like it was dominated by Noel Heroux, the wryly titled I’ve Tortured You Long Enough...
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Low – Double Negative (2018)
Low set out on their extraordinary musical journey 25 years ago, in the early ’90s. At that time, the indie and alternative rock scenes were dominated by the rise of the grunge. The punk sensibilities...
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Mudhoney – Digital Garbage (2018)
There is a core of characteristics that capture something like a worldview espoused by Mudhoney, and it helps to explain the longevity of their appeal. There’s a misanthropic streak – consider that,...
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J Mascis – Elastic Days (2018)
Praised for continuously feeding the fix of feedback-crazed fans, Jazzmaster aficionado J Mascis has returned with a gentler offering — one that’s just as confident, despite its modest approach....
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Fleet Foxes – First Collection: 2006-2009 (2018)
Fleet Foxes and Sub Pop present a limited-edition collection in honor of the 10th anniversary of Fleet Foxes’ debut LP. First Collection 2006–2009 spans the early days of Fleet Foxes’ career,...
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Green River – Dry as a Bone + Rehab Doll [Deluxe Editions] (2019)
Formed in 1984 and defunct by 1987, Seattle’s Green River didn’t enjoy an auspicious career. They released two EPs of sludgy punk-metal during their time together, both of which were delayed by their...
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Blitzen Trapper – Furr [10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] (2018)
The deluxe edition is accompanied by 10 extra tracks from the same sessions that yielded “Furr” as well as a pair of songs laid down “Live at KCRW” during a tour in support of the LP. Seven of the...
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Perfect Son – Cast (2019)
Sometime in 2016, just as the Polish singer and producer Tobiasz Biliński began to find success through the dim and fractured electropop of Coldair, he knew it was time for a radical change. The songs...
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Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days [Deluxe Edition] (2019)
The album was reissued by Sub Pop for its fifteenth aniversary in a deluxe edition that added eight acoustic demos of tracks from the album. On Our Endless Numbered Days, the follow-up to 2002’s...
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Orville Peck – Pony (2019)
There are two sides to Orville Peck, and he wears them both on his face. There’s the yearning for the good ol’ days of outlaws and the Wild West, as communicated through his cowboy hat, and then...
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Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising (2019)
The road that songwriter Natalie Mering and her shapeshifting project Weyes Blood walked was a long and twisting route, leading from weird experimental early days to the high definition grandeur of...
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Tacocat – This Mess Is a Place (2019)
When Seattle band Tacocat-vocalist Emily Nokes, bassist Bree McKenna, guitarist Eric Randall, and drummer Lelah Maupin-first started in 2007, the world they were responding to was vastly different...
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The Gotobeds – Debt Begins at 30 (2019)
Pittsburgh four-piece The Gotobeds‘ new album Debt Begins at 30 is their idea of a punk/indie rock equivalent of a trap mixtape, featuring guests on every track. Those include Protomartyr’s Joe Casey...
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Calexico / Iron & Wine – Years to Burn (2019)
Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam started out crafting dark and delicate folk-pop songs in his bedroom, releasing them as barren solo whispers. But in the years since, his scope has expanded drastically. He...
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Kyle Craft – Showboat Honey (2019)
Following a self-recorded debut and full-band follow-up that was tracked live in a studio under the guidance of Chris Funk (the Decemberists), ’70s rock disciple Kyle Craft returns with Showboat Honey,...
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