Lars Gotrich
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In an art installation full of faces, Becca Mancari can't face herself. This performance of the introspective centerpiece to her album Good Woman underlines the song's lonely atmospherics.
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Natalie Prass turns the laid-back groove of "Short Court Style" into the soft murmurs of late-night devotion.
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The D.C. post-punk trio's first single as a newly-signed Domino Records group sounds like an ecstatic hall of mirrors. -
Lance Bangs directs the video for the New Jersey trio's endlessly hummable punk-bop catharsis.
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Quoting Margaret Atwood, Barnett has a few cutting words to men cowering behind keyboards. Tell Me How You Really Feel comes out May 18.
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Steeped in detuned guitars and iridescent noise, Drowse sounds like an intimate Mount Eerie home recording overdubbed with a worn-out cassette of The Cure's Disintegration.
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Ruban Nielson really puts some stank on "American Guilt," which, if you're going to call your new album Sex & Food, maybe is a requirement.
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Finnish singer Lau Nau, who makes beautiful and wandering folk music, writes a comforting song to her ten-year old, "younger, depressed" self.
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Like the pipe organ she commands at harrowing volumes and in disquiet drones, her howls rattle and shake with a sublime elasticity.
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Below the concrete beams which hold the building's iconic sails, the Melbourne trio performs a scathing song about representation and indie rock's virtue signaling.
