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Label: Dog Knights

Forests are a reminder that emo can be party music. The ridiculously fun Singapore-based trio deals in hooky, high-energy, riff-heavy rock songs built for shouting along at egregious volumes. Yet there’s also a metaphysical streak intermingled with the rowdy camaraderie, as observed through Forests’ album titles. This year, they’re following up 2019’s Spending Eternity In A Japanese Convenience Store with a new LP called Get In Losers, We’re Going To Eternal Damnation.

Nomenclature like that suggests you’re in for a good time. So do song titles like “Resting Peach Face,” “Jazz Ruined My Life,” and “Yoko Oh No.” Get In Losers delivers on that promise. Forests usually sound like they were fired out of a cannon, and their extreme virtuosity never fails to serve the songs. There’s some mathy, noodly guitar action, some batshit ballistic drumming, lots of lung-busting wails. They chug, they churn, and sometimes they even jangle. Put simply, Forests made one of the most instantly enjoyable albums I’ve heard this year. Get in losers.

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FORESTS - Get In Losers, We're Going To Eternal Damnation LP (Red / Green Pinwheel Vinyl)

FORESTS - Get In Losers, We're Going To Eternal Damnation LP (Orange / Yellow Swirl Vinyl)

Label: Dog Knights

Quite Quiet (Singapore) is the lo-fi/dream pop/emo solo project by Darell Lazer; the vocalist, bass player and lyrical genius behind Forests. In contrast to Forests’ frenetic riotous singalongs, Quite Quiet is Darell at his introspective, poignant best. Call it twee, lo-fi, folk or bedroom pop, there’s no denying that Quite Quiet is the perfect soundtrack for a multitude of moods – whether it be late night reflection, an explorative afternoon or setting the mood to move up to second base.

“'A Trip To Nowhere' is a collection of our 12 favourite songs spanning from 2012's 'self-titled' and all the way up to last year's 'fruits bus stop', pressed on a single LP with some of the most adorable artwork you can imagine. We've been trying to release something together for a couple of years with different songs, album titles and artwork, but the project kept getting delayed thanks to various covid-related issues. But it worked out for the best, because the final package is truly top and we're extremely proud to be sharing it with all of you.”

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QUITE QUIET - A Trip To Nowhere LP (Tri-Colour Vinyl)

Label: Dog Knights Productions

Forests' debut album, Sun Eat Moon Grave Party, slaps brooding crescendos and faux-optimism in the face with an attitude that finds complete solace in cynicism, but they never forget to have a good time doing it nonetheless. 

After releasing Forests' sophomore 'Spending Eternity In A Japanese Convenience Store' LP earlier this year, Dog Knights Productions went back to where it all started, with the ridiculously fun debut 'Sun Eat moon Grave Party' LP which was originally released on CD through Lithe Records in Singapore back in 2016. Features a newly remastered version for this vinyl reissue. All purchases of the record will receive an instant download of the full album, which has also been re-tweaked for it's 2019 relaunch! This is the neon green coloured Vinyl version and comes with a download code.

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FORESTS - Sun Eat Moon Grave Party LP (Neon Green Vinyl)

Label: Dog Knights Productions

Spending Eternity In A Japanese Convenience Store' is the eagerly-awaited sophomore LP from Forests; the super-fun Emo-Math-Rock trio from Singapore, who surprised many with their awesome debut 'Sun Eat Moon Grave Party' LP, which was released back in May, 2016.

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FORESTS - Spending Eternity In A Japanese Convenience Store LP (Tri-Colour Vinyl)

Label: Partisan

2020s A Heros Death saw Fontaines D.C. land a #2 album in the UK, receive nominations at the GRAMMYs, BRITs and Ivor Novello Awards, and sell out Londons iconic Alexandra Palace. Now the band return with their third record in as many years: Skinty Fia. Used colloquially as an expletive, the title roughly translates from the Irish language into English as "the damnation of the deer"; the spelling crassly anglicized, and its meaning diluted through generations. Part bittersweet romance, part darkly political triumph - the songs ultimately form a long-distance love letter, one that laments an increasingly privatized culture in danger of going the way of the extinct Irish giant deer.

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FONTAINES D.C. - Skinty Fia (Indie Exclusive Red vinyl)

FONTAINES D.C - Skinty Fia (Red vinyl)

Label: Domino

Wet Leg, the year's breakout indie rock band, feels simultaneously like it came from nowhere and everywhere. Wet Leg's front duo of Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers seemed to emerge fully-formed last summer with their sexy and silly single "Chaise Longue." Wet Leg bears sonic echoes of New Wave and '00s indie rock, and aesthetic and thematic similarities to contemporary television shows and fiction. 

Wet Leg is as fun to listen to as it is to think about, and in the band's loopy, addictive rock songs you can either turn your brain off completely, or turn your brain on to the sounds and styles of the far-reaching musical universe contained within it.  The British indie rock duo has hooks stuffed with bait and a keen eye for assessing self-delusion. Their debut is the sound of two women stoking mutiny from a slow descent into madness.  Their debut doesn’t skimp on outlining the horrors of being a youngish woman—but its giddy, wild-eyed pleasures are also a testament to creating your own reality to survive.

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WET LEG - Wet Leg LP

Label: Topshelf

Sorority Noise combines the elements of emo and ambient music in their latest full-length release Joy, Departed. The Connecticut based band consists of members from Old Grey and Prawn.

The follow up to their 2014 debut record Forgettable, Joy, Departed is a dynamic and thrilling step forward for Sorority Noise. One year, two music degrees and a whole lot of openness and expression went into the creation of this beautifully crafted record. 

With an album full of lovely orchestral swells, Weezer-esque guitar solos and cheery pop hits, Sorority Noise shows off their versatility and talent on Joy Departed, creating a perfect front to back record.

Joy, Departed is easily one of the best albums to come out of the recent rise of popularity of the emo genre and can be compared to bands such as Brand New, Seahaven and American Football. The album is very melodic, exciting and all around very passionate.

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SORORITY NOISE - Joy, Departed LP

Label: Merge

Famous for their 60s-style pop tone, She & Him continues that trend in “Volume 3,” the duo’s fourth studio album. Consisting of the famous actress Zooey Deschanel and Matthew Ward (M. Ward), She & Him is an indie pop duo that strives to incorporate retro sounds into the current music sphere.

“Volume Three” brings back all the things that made their previous albums good––and makes them even better. The album partially benefits from the pop vibe that is exhibited in each of its tracks. There are fewer ballads on this album, which moves away from long emotional songs with a somber feel. This album seems more fun and happy than She & Him’s previous work, even though the band is discussing lost love and tears.

The album transitions from track to track nicely because of the unifying theme throughout all the songs. Deschanel sings about love and heartbreak, but keeps it upbeat to show that being single does not have to be depressing––it can just be another experience.

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SHE & HIM - Volume Three LP (180g)

Label: Merge

It’s hard to be ambivalent about Zooey Deschanel. She’s a polarizing personality, one whose deadpan movie roles and big Bambi eyes are either charming or too cute for their own good. The same can be said for She & Him, a soft rock duo that features Deschanel doing what she does best as a film star: acting utterly adorable alongside a quiet, talented male character. Her co-star in this case is M. Ward, who produces the band's second album and frames Deschanel’s voice with a Spector-sized pile of instruments. Those who already take issue with Zooey’s acting will almost surely pick this record apart -- it’s too reminiscent of her cutesy turns in movies like (500) Days of Summer to change many minds -- but for fans of retro pop (and Deschanel in general), Volume 2 is a gem.

Like the previous album, Volume 2 would suffer under the weight of its own pastiche if it weren’t so darn endearing, filled as it is with call-and-response vocals, studio reverb, sweeping orchestrations, and other bygone tricks of the trade. This has all been done before, perhaps, but that’s the whole point, and Volume 2 ends up being a breezy tribute to the group’s influences.

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SHE & HIM - Volume Two LP (180g)

Label: Merge

Volume One is a collection of country/folk numbers that prove Deschanel has the range of talents that have eluded other movie stars turned singers. We’re looking at you Keanu. And Russell. And Juliette. And Minnie. And Bruce. 

With hints of Petula Clark, (M.Ward collaborator) Conor Oberst, Karen Carpenter and Jenny Lewis, there are enough aural focus points for movie-sized audiences to catch on to the record. Not that they will. Deschanel, who is credited for all the original tracks here, clearly has an ear for classical pop sounds – Hal David and Burt Bacharach wouldn’t be ashamed of tracks like ‘This Is Not A Test’ and opener ‘Sentimental Heart’.

Volume One is deeply sentimental record, its closest modern relation being Feist’s The Reminder. It’s the sound of Chuck Schultz’s Peanuts, dusky ‘70s Californian sunsets and the sound of a talent transcending her artistic straitjacket. Here’s to volume two.

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SHE & HIM - Volume One LP (180g)

Label: Taang!

Unapologetically straight forward, speed-reliant hardcore that won't give metal the time of day and leaves punk lying in the dust, SLAPSHOT continues to be nothing but the purest version of hardcore there is.  Olde Tyme Hardcore starts with a clip from the '70s hockey movie that gave Slapshot their band name. (The title is actually a triple pun: hockey, the touristy Revolutionary War-era kitsch of the band's native Boston, and the fact that this kind of old-school hardcore was entirely out of fashion are all being referenced here.) 

From that opening, the band blasts through nine furious slabs of straight-edge fury with the wild-eyed abandon of true believers tempered with a bit of wistfulness. There's a hint of nostalgia not just on the title track, but on the album's centrepiece track, a fiery cover of SS Decontrol's "Get It Away," arguably the best Boston straight-edge single.  Singer Jack Kelly disbanded Slapshot a day after the release of this album, after over 13 years as one of Boston's premier hardcore bands, and that "end of an era" sense hangs over this entire album.

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SLAPSHOT - Old Tyme Hardcore LP (White Vinyl)