Bully - Lucky for You - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Portland, OR-based alt. Metal band, Jiva Sakti, incorporate a spiritual approach to their hard rock music with a theatrical twist. The debut EP features the talents of Kris Keyes (Nomad), formerly of Blind Justice and Gargantua Soul, with his Painted Man stage antics, along with London transplant, Huwy Williams, on drums, and riff machine Jeremy Campbell on guitar. The 6-track disc serves as a prelude for what's to come and assures their mission into the new musical frontier in 2021-22. Produced by The Human (Amerakin Overdose) and co-produced by Jiva Sakti. Album Tracks 1. I Music 2. World War Me 3. You Are the Light 4. The Pecking Order 5. Brooklyn Bridge 6. Mystic

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever return in 2022 with Endless Rooms, the Melbourne quintet's third album proper. Described by the band - comprised of Fran Keaney, Joe White, Marcel Tussie and brothers Tom Russo and Joe Russo - as them InchDoing what we do best chasing down songs in a room togetherInch, Endless Rooms stands as a testament to the collaborative spirit and live power of RBCF. While initial ideas were traded online during long spells spent separated by lockdowns, the album was truly born during small windows of freedom in which the band would decamp to a mud-brick house in the bush around 2hrs north of Melbourne built by the extended Russo family in the 1970s. There, it's 12 tracks took shape, informed to such an extent by the acoustics and ambience of the rambling lakeside house that they decided to record the album there. The house also features on the album cover. For the first time, the band self-produced the record (alongside engineer, collaborator and old friend, Matt Duffy), creating their most naturalistic and expansive document yet. The result is a collection of songs permeated by the spirit of the place; punctuated by field recordings of rain, fire, birds, and wind. InchIt's almost an anti-concept album,Inch say the band. InchThe 'endless rooms' of the title reflects our love of creating worlds in our songs. We treat each of them as a bare room to be built up with infinite possibilities.Inch Details 1. Pearl Like You 2. Tidal River 3. The Way It Shatters 4. Caught Low 5. My Echo 6. Dive Deep 7. Open Up Your Window 8. Blue Eye Lake 9. Saw You at the Eastern Beach 10. Vanishing Dots 11. Endless Rooms 12. Bounce Off the Bottom

While Bully's 2013 debut Feels Like tumbled headlong into the precarious nature of Alicia Bognanno's young adult life, it's follow-up Losing is their first for Sub Pop (which in many ways feels like their spiritual home; Bully's sound is an outgrowth of the bands the tag championed in the late '80s and '90s). Losing is a document of the complexity of growth navigating breakups with sensitivity, learning not to flee from your troubles but to face them down no matter how messy they may be (InchWell, this isn't the summer I wanted,Inch she muses on InchBlame,Inch before admitting that she's trying to Inchcut down on booze and youInch). Written as the group slowed down from touring constantly and Bognanno attempted to adjust to how different a home schedule is from a road schedule, her songwriting has matured from the quick one-two punches of Feels Like to tracks that contemplate the necessity of space in both song structure and emotion. Bognanno's gruff yet dynamic voice is allowed to bloom, and it has a tenderness and openness to it here that's new. There are multiple layers of wistfulness and care to her delivery of lines like InchIt just takes one disagreement for you to remember the one time I fucked up,Inch from InchSpiral,Inch turning songs that could be one-dimensional kiss-offs into warm and complex expressions of regret. Album Tracks 1. Feel the Same 2. Kills to Be Resistant 3. Running 4. Seeing It 5. Guess There 6. Blame 7. Focused 8. Not the Way 9. Spiral 10. Either Way 11. You Could Be Wrong 12. Hate and Control