In No Man Is Land, Calgary's Kris Ellestad has created one of the finest LPs of the year so far — a sprawling, folky concoction that commingles emotional vox with a variety of peculiar instruments like langeleiks, munnharpes and hardangers. The result sounds like a less brassy Beirut. His vocals often reach a beauty on a par with Antony Hegarty ('Shame'), his songwriting in a similar vein to Fleet Foxes ('Another Day'). All in all, it's a thoroughly pleasant listen. Listen for yourselves below. You can download the entire album for only $7 on his bandcamp.
Fungi Girls, raucous upstarts from Clebourne, TX, have a ludicrous number of tunes. Hot tunes at that. Eschewing any clear resemblance to other lo-fi garage bands, they sound as if they've assembled the best parts of LoVVers and Psychedelic Horsesh*t's back catalogues and filtered them through a cheese grater. That's how freakin rock n roll this sounds. Want noise? Need melodies? Crave RAWK? Have a listen to their new single 'Velvet Days' where they sound like a male Dum Dum Girls. Is that conceivable? Stream it below.
