Review

Contributor Potluck: October 2024

October music recommendations from the indieAnthro team.

by Teague, Melissa Thyme Monroe, Vomen, Will a month ago

Welcome to our October Contributor Potluck! Each month, indieAnthro contributors get together and share what they've been listening to lately. Enjoy!

Teague

"diving board" - _st1cks

The webcage member capped off the three-song EP i'm dead this month with "diving board". While its building blocks are some of the more conventional sounds on the EP—a steady, pulsing bass and four-on-the-floor beat—its hypnotic vocal melody brings it into line with the other songs' dreamy atmosphere. It's where "diving board" takes these sounds that's most compelling: after a mid-song breakdown, instead of a drop, we get a distorted swirl of vocals and synth arpeggios that leads into the fuzzed-out title track.

"diving board" is available now on streaming services.

Melissa

"ESPRESSO" - CaseJackal

Truthbetold, this is just a really fucking good cover. Case brings a performance absolutely dripping with the limp-wristed sass you could only get from a pop thing like them. The instrumental gets a lot funkier too. As with other queerifications of pop music, it sometimes just tastes a lot better when it's fruitier.

"ESPRESSO" is available on Youtube and Bandcamp.

"Sirens" - Hermit and the Recluse

Been listening to Ka's catalogue a lot in the days and weeks since his passing earlier this month. As other eulogists will doubtless jump to point out, he was a poet and a rapper with a profoundly good pen. Sirens is his magnum opus, using the mythos of Orpheus as a metaphor for the dreary state of his hometown. Independent himself, Ka was always an advocate for indie rappers and underground musicians. As such, let me echo a sentiment of his: If there is an independent rapper or underground musician you like, tell them.

"Sirens" is available on streaming services.

"city in ashes" - Your Arms Are My Cocoon

Exactly my shit. Melodic instruments gelling into a hypermelodic wall of tune while a drumset gets demolished, all recorded on a potato. Mazel tov.

"city in ashes" is available now on Bandcamp and streaming services.

Vomen

"An Animal" - Walk Me Home

Walk Me Home is an American/Canadian rock band formed in Boston, who just put out their first record in April of this year. An Animal is the album’s visceral opening track. Matching its lyrics, it sounds like the song is rattling at the bars of its cage, fighting between these moments of peace and instrumental chaos. It’s all weeping and gnashing teeth, and I can’t wait to hear what’s next for them.

"An Animal" is available on Bandcamp and streaming services.

"Non-Metaphorical Decolonization " - Mount Eerie

I'll let Phil speak for himself:

"This 'America', the old idea, I want it to die
Non-metaphorical decolonization
beneath the one sky"

Will

"SOLO SO LONG!" - GABUISLOST **

GABUISLOST returns with another single ahead of what's gearing up to be a solid follow up to 2023's Fairy. This song is so dang catchy and energetic. The gay furry breakup anthem of the Fall.

"SOLO SO LONG!" is available now on Bandcamp and streaming services.

"SLOWDANCE" - Shinemachine

I'm pretty late to the Shinemachine train. So late, in fact, that I almost didn't nab a cassette of the Orlando duo's 2024 self titled debut in time (ty russelbuck for putting them on my radar <3 ). Noisy, nostalgic synth pop with a chorus that worms its way into your heart.

SHINEMACHINE 4EVER

"SLOWDANCE" is available now on Bandcamp and streaming services.

** - This artist is part of the trickyStoop roster, the label side of our blog.

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