First Listen: New Releases for January 28
Artist : Thyla Album : Thyla Quick Thoughts : This album not only came out nowhere for me, but fully and completely blew me away. Thyla is a trio that does some really interesting alt-rock, and does it with some of the catchiest tunes I've heard in some time. This was one that I shot Ken a message a few songs in and told him to look it up, and you have songs like "Amber Waits" that just trap themselves in your head. Yeah, it's early, but this is the first great record of 2022 and I'm really looking forward to spending more time with it. Songs of Note : "Amber Waits," "Breathe," "3," "Echo for Ingrid" Artist : Pinegrove Album : 11:11 Quick Thoughts : This hit my radar because Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie produced it, and it's worth hearing in part because Walla's fingerprints are all over it. This is a definite indie rock record, and feels like it came out of the mid-2000s in many regards, but when it h...