From New York City, New York
Recommended if you like The Clean, This is Lorelei, The Feelies
Up next Debut album Hercules out 10 July<\/p>\n
Tracey Nelson\u2019s self-titled 2025 debut EP was one of the year\u2019s best lesser-heard gems: Five tracks of sparkling, winsome indie-rock that recalled classic antipodean jangle bands the Clean, Twerps and Dick Diver. Tracks such as New Years Flowers and Just Shoot Me Now suggested that Austin Noll \u2013 the NYC-based singer-songwriter behind the project \u2013 was a classicist with a keen sense for bright melodies and self-deprecating one-liners.<\/p>\n
This July, Noll will release Hercules, his first full-length, on Perennial, an imprint of the beloved Olympia, Washington label K Records, which in recent years has released great LPs by garage rockers Sharp Pins and the amorphous Los Angeles band Dummy. Co-produced by the North Carolina musicians MJ Lenderman and Colin Miller \u2013 and performed by a murderers row that includes Lenderman and Miller alongside Landon George, Wednesday\u2019s Karly Hartzman<\/a>, Xandy Chelmis, Ethan Baechtold and former Hotline TNT guitarist Jack Kraus \u2013 Hercules amps up the country elements of last year\u2019s EP while giving Noll and his band more space to breathe.<\/p>\n Tracks such as Two Feet and St John\u2019s River amble about in a dazed, friendly way that makes the record\u2019s summer release date a no-brainer; lead single Hercules is a warm spotlight for Noll\u2019s warbling, characterful voice. \u201cI\u2019ll carry you with me wherever I go,\u201d he sings, drawing out each word with a faint sense of adoration and affirmation. The whole of Hercules balances deftly on this tightrope between melancholy and geniality, establishing Noll as an unshowy songwriter with a deeply clarified sense of self. Shaad D\u2019Souza<\/p>\n This week\u2019s best new tracksPozer. Photograph: Henry Goodfellow<\/p>\n Pozer \u2013 Hulk Hogan (ft AJ Tracey) Zoh Amba \u2013 Another Time One Leg One Eye \u2013 Many Are My Names Besides Enter Shikari \u2013 Dead in the Water James K \u2013 Peel (Loidis remix) Ambrose Akinmusire and Mary Halvorson \u2013 Soundcheck Max F \u2013 Dream Channel (Space Ghost Club Remix) Subscribe to the Guardian\u2019s rolling Add to Playlist selections on Spotify \u2013 or transfer it to Apple<\/a>, Tidal<\/a> or other services<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From New York City, New YorkRecommended if you like The Clean, This is Lorelei, The FeeliesUp next Debut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-594862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Delivering social realism over Jersey club beats, the Croydon MC is in a class of one in the UK scene, and AJ Tracey turns in an excellent verse as he locks in alongside Pozer\u2019s galloping pace. BBT<\/p>\n
The remarkable free jazz saxophonist turns equally remarkable songwriter for a record that twists their Appalachian roots with open-hearted, choppy indie rock, backed by Jim White on drums. LS<\/p>\n
One to drag you back to the cruelest depths of winter: George Brennan and Lankum\u2019s Ian Lynch twist scratchy drone and distorted wailing into true willies-inducing horror. LS<\/p>\n
A highlight from the rave-rockers\u2019 surprise and brilliantly overstimulated new album Lose Your Self out today: imagine Everything Everything spliced with the Prodigy and Bring Me the Horizon. BBT<\/p>\n
Loidis (also known as ambient-techno master Huerco S) turns in a 14-minute remix of James K\u2019s ethereal dancehall-pop tune, turning it into snappy Luomo-esque microhouse \u2013 and perfect beach sunset fodder. BBT<\/p>\n
You could discern the sound of breathing or a distant siren in Akinmusire\u2019s disarming trumpet playing, further unsettled by the arrival of Halvorson\u2019s guitar \u2013 before both get down to skittish play. LS<\/p>\n
The kind of piano-centred house instrumental that you play as the sun is filtering through the warehouse rave windows, with everyone air-plinking along to its detailing: life-affirming music. BBT<\/p>\n