COFFIN PRICK - "Laughing" LPCoffin Prick Laughing LP (Sophomore Lounge, 2023) "The first solo album by Ryan Weinstein is truly a world of its own. Under the name Coffin Prick (the singular version of Coffin Pricks, his group with Chris Thomson), Weinstein has built a musical ecosystem filled with rhyming sounds, hypnotically hermetic production, and a rhythmic gravity that keeps everything in orbit. Crafted entirely at his home in Los Angeles, Laughing is simultaneously isolated

perhaps opening up a new chapter on outsider fandom – opener “The Last Will And Testament Of Alphonso Artemis” is an enthusiastically shambled ringer for Pavement’s “Box Elder

and Naná Vasconcelos— performed in an outdoor amphitheater and were joined onstage by a dozen adults and children

Fried E/M - Modern World LP (Lumpy

He wanted to do what he wanted to do

Extra points for naming the band after a Macabre song

Grandma's Roadhouse is both human-scaled and heroic

Skiftande Enheter

Songs for John Venn

electric-guitar-powered pop act of the current era

Scratchy man yodelings

Tom Price: drums

Black Is is shaped by gorgeous melodies and unequivocal messaging