GIVING UP - "Garner Cardinals" LPGiving Up Garner Cardinals LP (Sophomore Lounge, 2017) It's strange to believe that Giving Up's latest and greatest effort Garner Cardinals is only their third official full length since forming over a decade ago in the unfinished basement bedrooms of rural Iowa. For a band that's toured no less than semi actively around the calendar and self released no fewer than too many to count cassette and CD R transmissions throughout the course of some Bush

which combine country twang

Original trio member Elisabeth Fuchsia (frequent Pile collaborator) is on viola and long-time collusionist Candace Clement provides guitar

Megaphonim

"Four tracks of Max Anti-Power Energy

‘You & I’ pumps the brakes a bit

"I think this her very first release

"Full well mannered rackety inventions that use something of a vreak-volk template to do screwball tape manipulation -- Higgsian banjo touches

The duo of Marion Molle and Ronan Riou revisits french lo-fi synth pop in a fairytale-like way

Its successor matches those high standards

Until recently

Iwata teams up with what I’d guess is a neighborhood band (guitarist Zachary Sulat

followed by three songs that sound like a suite of the last three