Jangle, crunch, and catharsis: Rural France's SLOTHS is their jangliest, most baroque album yet — organs, horns, mellotron and all — while still honoring the "Pavement playing Teenage Fanclub" mission statement, celebrating the absurdities of getting older with Silver Jews-esque Americana and loser anthems. Publicity Department's S. Michael Brook And The Steam-Powered Trains delivers half an hour of crunchy guitars and two-part vocal harmonies, power pop influences distorted through 90s alt-rock sensibilities. Ben Auld's Loserdom channels blown-out power-pop with Bach-inspired guitar solos and layered harmonies, turning personal upheaval into a sardonic rock opera that never overstays its welcome. Barrelly Ego's Bearly Eagle offers a cathartic socio-geo-political anthology — the allegorical bear that wants to be an eagle — while The B Roads' Nowhere Fast maps a post-rock jazz-folk road trip through yearning, folklore, and the endless middle-England road.

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Hand Me Down by Padded Waltz cover art

“A song that gives shame, embarrassment, and insecurity a voice, and asks how those feelings shape who we become.”

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Bearly Eagle by Barrelly Ego cover art

“The allegorical donkey in the lion's skin, but it's a bear that wants to be an eagle that wants to be a bear... who cried wolf.”

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