If It's Too Loud...

Pale Honey is an album I came to late this year, and I'm glad I tracked it down before it was too late. It's got a lot of what I want in indie rock right now - a good balance of interesting songwriting, a blast of sound, and a unique sound that still feels familiar along the same lines. I compared it in my initial review to Mynabirds, but it also does a lot of interesting alt-rock things along the way. I think it's definitely one of the more interesting listens of the year, for sure, and you should really give this a listen via the stream below:

With what is a basically empty new release week, we may as well do a quick hit of some of the recent albums we missed. There was one release of note this week, though: Ty Segall - Ty Rex : Ty Segall is an artist we don't cover here a lot, but this is a pseudo-record-store-day compilation release of some of his T-Rex covers along with a cool version of "20th Century Boy" that hasn't seen the light of day yet. I'm a big T-Rex fan, and these takes are garage-muddled enough to be their own pieces in a way, but when it works, it works. As a covers album it's interesting, as garage rock album it's what you'd expect. Also out this week is a new Danzig album , but the less said about it the better. Anyway, we don't always catch the new albums when they first come out. Here are some highlights we missed along the way: Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love : To be completely honest, I wouldn't have sought this out to listen if it weren...