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Just six months after the release of his first LP, New York based artist Renny Conti will return on March 29 with his new EP, The Horse. An early look at the EP thanks to Urban Scandal Records reveals how immensely Conti has grown as an artist in such a short amount of time. Spanning five tracks, The Horse ranges from his familiar sedated style to more upbeat alternative sounds.
On February 15, 2019, SWMRS released their sophomore album, Berkeley’s On Fire. Three years after the Oakland punk band signed to the record label Fueled By Ramen and re released their debut album, Drive North, SWMRS has had lots of time to craft new tracks and cultivate the new era of their music. Since 2016, SWMRS has only grown, amassing a larger and larger fan base that shows no signs of plateauing. Berkeley’s On Fire is an album that ranges from protest anthems, to mellow acoustic, to experimental sounds, all in just ten tracks.
Deafening guitar solos. 30 Seconds of Shit. Sad boys standing on the edge of the pit while the girls mosh. Yelling the lyrics to “American River” as catharsis for school induced stress. Alexia navigating through the crowd as she sings “Cattywampus”. These are just some of the aspects that make up a great Destroy Boys show. We have long awaited the day that their recordings would catch up to the magnitude of their energetic and unifying live performances.
Although I’ve been listening to them for years, I saw The Frights in concert for the first time on December 1, 2017. There, they told the crowd that they were going to start recording their third album. After that, the band played a few unreleased songs and I liked them overall, but they weren’t anything monumental to me. Eight months later, Hypochondriac was released on August 24, 2018. At first, I thought the album was just okay, but as I kept listening, I found myself drawn to a certain aspect of some of the songs on the album.
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A rainy day with headphones in. Laying in your room in the dark. Staring out your window while sitting in a parking garage. Walking down your street at dusk. A sad end to a movie. Being unable to sleep, even though you are exhausted.
People Floating by Renny Conti (released September 7, 2018) is best understood not by a detailed description of the tone or production of each song, but as a series of moments.
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On August 17, 2018, The Band Ice Cream released their second album, Numbskull.
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The band Mustn’ts (from Concord, California) released a self-titled EP on January 8, 2018. It is their first release since their name change from Kilroy.