When Blond Jesus released the breathless new single "Karma Buddy," he perfectly bottled the sheer, stomach-dropping terror of blowing up a perfectly safe friendship. There is an agonizing electricity in realizing you want something entirely different from someone you've known forever, and this track sprints headfirst into that exact moment of anxiety. https://open.spotify.com/album/3JwfBy3lewo48u7UloyjsN?si=iLL1viyySWKKoS8KHjNBwg Sonically, the guitars utterly refuse to sit still. Rooted deeply in the massive,...

Houston-based psych-rock duo The Shrubs return with "Let Us In", a frantically catchy single that basically sugarcoats a societal breakdown in layers of infectious fuzz. https://open.spotify.com/album/4DHZnz49JHoaX6Ce0uAdd6?si=xvATg3GHRyS6lHn1pLjiNw Miguel and Sophie have a fascinating knack for dragging fifty-year-old analog reel-to-reels and gritty cassettes into modern digital landscapes. Here, they have engineered a massive, heavily distorted wall of sound that races forward with a sweaty, desperate urgency. You catch...