On each album since In Standard Definition, Art d’Ecco‘s music has changed drastically, but his social commentary always felt like the perspective of a wry outsider.
On Scheele’s Green, it finally sounds like he has skin in the game. Named for a vivid, deadly pigment used in 18th and 19th century paint, toys, and food dye, his fifth album tackles the proliferation of AI data centers, climate change, corrupt politicians, and war — as well as humanity’s age-old compulsion to literally and figuratively foul its nest — with palpable rage and grief.
Where the precision of d’Ecco’s pop was one of the main strengths of his previous albums, on Scheele’s Green he colors outside the lines. On songs like “How Real Is Real,” which pairs…
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Projecting energetic alt-rock across the globe, Sydney group The Buoys channel anthemic melodies and an unmistakable chemistry on their sophomore record Concrete Cowboy.
Strawberry Guy is the name used by Welsh-born, Liverpool-based artist Alexander Stephens for his softly delivered, hyper-melodic symphonic pop. He used to be the keyboardist in The Orielles but left to release his debut solo album back in 2021 and has spent the last five years readying his second album, Give Me a Dream.
Soft-spoken singer/songwriter 
An adaptive sense of ‘post-punk’ may be the most ‘way’ to file Chicago’s Axis: Sova, the trio of Brett Sova, Jeremy Freeze, and Josh Johannpeter. That’s if post-punk’s understood as an organ, living roots and branches in the wilds of all music. Rock is rich krovvy that froths in Axis: Sova’s veins, and they enjoy progressive tactics when spilling it.
Ween is digging deep into its archives with Boognish Provides, a sprawling collection of seven previously unreleased concerts recorded during the band’s 
You know Fine Glindvad Jensen from somewhere. Perhaps you recognize the Danish polymath as the pitched-up voice echoing across Two Shell’s 2022 breakout “home”; maybe the hooks she wrote for that NewJeans EP got stuck in your head. Perhaps you’re familiar with her cohort at Copenhagen’s prestigious (and publicly funded) Rhythmic Music Conservatory, where she shared the halls with Smerz, Erika de Casier, ML Buch, and Astrid Sonne, among others. Her dusky alto may remind you of Hope Sandoval, or Lana, or the beautiful stranger who covered Nancy Sinatra at your local dive’s open mic—or did you imagine that? The great trick of her beguiling second solo album, 
Back in the year 2000, The Stooges’ proto-punk classic Fun House was given the seven-disc 30th-anniversary box-set treatment. However, 1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions wasn’t your typical canonization project. There was no treasure trove of previously unreleased songs, no alternate arrangements to give us insight into the band’s creative process, no unearthed live recordings to transport us back to that particular moment. 1970 effectively locked you in the studio with The Stooges as they burned through, say, 15 consecutive takes of “Down on the Street,” gradually beating the song into fighting shape as if they were enrolled in some merciless rock ‘n’ roll bootcamp. After listening to the song over and over for the better part of an hour…
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A New Jersey native and former member of bands in New Jersey, Maryland, and N.Y.C. (where he attended grad school), 
Between 2023’s 
The Cat’s Miaow started in 1992 as a home-recording duo, Bart Cummings and Andrew Withycombe knocking out songs on Withycombe’s four-track. Soon joined by Kerrie Bolton and Cam Smith, the quartet spent the next five years quietly, slowly working away in the suburbs of Melbourne. They’ve long been spoken-of in hushed tones in pop circles for their perfectly unadorned nuggets of gentle indiepop mastery, put to 4-track tape and drip-fed to the world a few decades back via 7” singles, cassettes and compilation appearances.
While 
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For the last decade,