50 Foot Wave - Black Pearl - VINYL LP

Long accustomed to the rhythms of small-batch self-releases, Neo Gibson, who makes music as 7038634357, developed a meticulous mode of craftsmanship on their early albums, which they typically synthesized and recorded solo, seeking formal precision, melodic structure, and an idiosyncratic emotional tenor. But in 2022, on a European tour, Gibson began to feel that their previous work was too inflexibly itself for the aesthetic ethos of live performance; presenting their finely-tuned, studio-crafted work sometimes felt more like playing back audio files than communing with an audience. They wanted to perform a song that was not yet a fully-formed thing, a perfectly smoothed and sanded object-a song that could flow into the audience and come back different in it's echo. While on the road, Gibson began writing with an explicit orientation toward live shows, crafting tracks that were more discrete-rather than seamlessly stitched together-which offered crowds a greater capacity to push and pull against the setlist, and lyrically dense, which allowed them to experiment with variable vocal expression and highlight their instrumental-only work when it did emerge. The result of this monthslong process-writing, performing, workshopping, repeating-is Waterfall Horizon, Gibson's second vinyl record with Blank Forms Editions. Here, several of Gibson's signatures-sustained electronic instrumentation, digital distortion that obfuscates their lyrics, and a slow-burning ambience-are noticeably pared back. Instead, Waterfall Horizon exhibits close attention to the interstices between it's ten tracks. On it, if you listen closely, you can hear Gibson settling into their audience's attention and responding with intentional breathing room, treating the silence between songs-or between sides A and B-as reverently as any other sonic opportunity.

A tidal wave of Minny-beat surf and garage from all incarnations of the carnivorous Vaqueros! Like Twin City neapolitan ice cream, surf instros, Linda Anderson vocal surf-rock cuts, and John Grizzard's grizzly garage cuts add three splendid flavors all in one sonic carton! A1. 80 Foot Wave A2. Birds and The Bees A3. Space Journey Ranger 7 A4. Baby, Baby A5. Moonlight A6. Island In Paradise A7. Soft Summer Rain B1. Jonah B2. Comin' Home, Baby B3. Growing Pains B4. 69 B5. Don't You Dare B6. Mustang Sally

Envy of None Sophomore album from the supergroup featuring Alex Lifeson of RUSH. Though they'd never describe themselves as such, Envy of None are the living, breathing definition of a supergroup. No other band on earth could rightly claim to have Alex Lifeson - one of rock's most influential visionaries - heading up guitar duties, with Andy Curran of Coney Hatch and Soho 69 overseeing bass/programming as well as producer extraordinaire Alfio Annibalini on keyboards. However, the star in this band could very well be it's youngest member - American singer- songwriter Maiah Wynne - whose wonderfully emotive vocals are able to spin the music in new exciting directions that thrill to the core. On their self-titled debut of 2022, the group were able to prove that they were a lot more than the sum of their parts, with an abundance of panache and finesse poured into a contemporary alt rock sound that was hard to predict and even harder to categorise. This year's sophomore , titled Stygian Waves, is the sound of a band basking in the radiant glow of creative confidence and coming into their own, staggering the listener with every twist and turn encased within their heady mix of genre-splicing brilliance.