Moderate Rock

A whole brand new year. What a thing. I’m glad you made it. I think I’m glad I made it too. I’m definitely glad to hear more music. I want all the music. I want brand new songs by brand new bands, like ‘Polari’ by Lemondaze, I want bands from a million miles away to release songs that sound like they were written just for me, like Brown Horse’s ‘Verna Bloom’, and I want some of the favourite bands from my youth, like Converge and Poison the Well, to come back and show them all how its done.

I hope you get what you want this year. A whole brand new year.

I hope, too, that you find something to love here.

• LEMONDAZE- ‘Polaris’
• NOTHING- ‘Toothless Coal’
• TRILLION- ‘Echoes of a Sunny Smile’
• NO SWOON- ‘For the Show’
• MATT BERNINGER- ‘Blue Monday’
• BROKENCHORD- ‘Tomorrow Knows’
• BLUE SLATE- ‘Plastic Soul’
• BROWN HORSE- ‘Verna Bloom’
• SUNDER- ‘I Guess I’ll See You in the Movies’
• MITSKI- ‘Where’s My Phone?’
• MENAURA- ‘Departure October’
• SADDYOWNER- ‘I’ve Never Seen the Snow but I Don’t Think It’s That Big of a Deal’
• LAIKA SONGS- ‘Turned Around’
• CIGARETTES FOR BREAKFAST- ‘Swallowed Alive’
• LOWMOON- ‘Cinema’
• DEARY- ‘Seabird’
• GRIEFEATER-‘Half Past’
• DREAM FATIGUE- ‘Be Your Anchor’
• VELVET- ‘Catherine’
• POISON THE WELL- ‘Thoroughbreds’
• CONVERGE- ‘We Were Never the Same’