Gas Huffer, "Nisqually" The first song from the first Gas Huffer full-length, it sets the tone for what they're trying to do: straight-ahead garage rock with zero pretension. Although they were contemporaneous with grunge and from Seattle, they were doing something...
Pinback, "How We Breathe" Well, that's very pretty. Here Lies Man, "Collector of Vanities" A side project of Antibalas folks, Here Lies Man plays a meld of Afrobeat and psychedelic rock, often to pretty solid effect. This is from...
Black Moon, "Enta da Stage" Black Moon's 1993 classic, Enta da Stage, could not have been released at a worse time to get attention. The synthesis of the jazz-inflected beats of Native Tongues and the street rhymes of New York City...
Chaos A.D., "Generation Shit" Chaos A.D. is an Tom Jenkinson (Squarepusher), releasing a miscellaneous pile of tracks from his early years. It doesn't show the same kind of sophistication of his later recordings, and honestly, it's an...
Spanish Love Songs, "Routine Pain" I missed the first couple Spanish Love Songs albums when they came out, because I'm an out of touch loser. So this is the first song I ever heard from the band, and it's...