Washer - Here Comes Washer (CLOUDY GREEN VINYL) - VINYL LP

Pete Fine - On A Day Of Crystalline Thought [VINYL LP] date 11/03/2023

This is a repress of Brooklyn-based Wash'er's 2023 LP InchImproved Means To Deteriorated EndsInch. It currently has 850,000 streams on Spotify. Like all Washer releases, this album's songs pound and contort. Structures are upended for massive hooks and sharp left turns. Just as the band settle into a groove, they twist and convulse into the next, delivered with wonky riffs and off-kilter fills. Washer don't depend on abundant layers of sound and all-too-intricate textures, it's the immediacy of what they do that feels special. The songs are pointed and aggressive, shaking and shouting, but rooted in constant hooks, nagging earworms best experienced in the company of pals.

Sasami (Sasami Ashworth) returns with her second studio album, Squeeze. The 11-track collection hammers home a sentiment of Inchanti-toxic positivityInch and showcases her vicious honesty and brutally uncompromising vision, partially inspired by the Japanese yokai folk spirit called Nure-onna (translation wet woman), a vampiric deity that has the head of a woman and the body of a snake.