Exploding In Sound Indierock | Alternative 20 Items

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Revival Of A Friend Smoke Vinyl Edition

Sour Widows

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Exploding In Sound)

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Did You Get Better Ice Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Grief doesn’t have an endpoint. No matter how much time passes or how much healing you can muster, the absence stays ubiquitous. But with patience and care, you can endure and live with it. Sour Widows know this. The Oakland-based indie rock outfit was formed in 2017 by bandleaders and best friends Maia Sinaiko and Susanna Thomson during personal upheaval and tragedy: Sinaiko’s partner died and Thomson’s mother was diagnosed with cancer. Their bond and their band anchored them through this time and the songs they wrote processed the death surrounding them. Their debut album Revival of a Friend is resonant indie rock about the spiritually purifying power of connection and love in the face of loss. Across 10 winding and potent guitar-led tracks, they channel their mourning into solidarity and comfort.

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Babe Report

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Exploding In Sound)

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Somebody Else's Song Green With Black & Purple Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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With a squall of guitar and a crash of drums, two years on from the release of their exhilarating debut EP, Chicago noisemakers Babe Report finally release their debut album in 2024, in the form of the rough-and-ready Did You Get Better, released this Spring via Exploding In Sound. Formed of ten new songs, and all wrapped in under half an hour, it’s an immediate and breathless arrival.

Opening track ‘Turtle of Reaper’ arrives in a flurry of noise and energy. Presented as an indictment of the fear-mongering in click-bait media, it’s a cacophonous two-minutes of scorched vocals and frenetic drums, the chorus a call back to 12/31/99, when all the news told people to turn off their computers before Y2K hit.

‘Universal’ offers something somewhat more refined, with occasional moments of restraint amid the commotion that arrives in a hardy whack of heavy riffs. “This one is all about climbing up onto your neighbor’s back to succeed,” the band explain. “Most aspects of life are not a zero-sum game, but when they are, it feels ethically wrong to win.”

Elsewhere, ‘Allergy 2000’ is the album’s weighty centre-point, characterized by its soaring guitar lead line and stifled, murky vocals what might have started out as an experiment in writing a Yo La Tengo song soon comes into its own with a rabid tempo shift that feels indicative of the album’s fervent nature, never allowing the listener to rest on their laurels.

However it finds you or you find it, Did You Get Better finds a way to take the reins, ploughing headfirst into its journey and rarely looking back for approval, to even worry if anyone else is joining for the ride.

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Water From Your Eyes

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Exploding In Sound)

28,99 €*

Improved Means To Deteriorated Ends

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In the years since the release of Water From Your Eyes’ groundbreaking effort, “Somebody Else’s Song,” the duo have taken the world by storm, becoming one of the most consistent and beloved experimental pop bands of the era. They’ve toured with Interpol, Squid, Palm, Real Estate, and Pavement, earning a reputation as critically acclaimed songwriters and a stellar live act with a boisterous presence. This October marks five years since the release and Exploding In Sound Records are celebrating with a limited edition reissue on green vinyl with purple and black splatter!

Back in 2019, Brooklyn’s Water From Your Eyes had been evolving and experimenting with their sound. With “Somebody Else’s Song,” the band felt that they had found their place, the album an amalgamation of their past releases, honing in previously explored aesthetics but combining and rearranging ideas to capture feelings of self-reflection and personal growth. At their core, the duo of Nate Amos and Rachel Brown make experimental pop music, songs you can dance to, songs that will stick in your head long after you’ve heard them. The sound of Water From Your Eyes is far more expansive however, and “Somebody Else’s Song” is blissfully unclassifiable.

The lines of genre have blurred beyond recognition. The landscape flickers between haunting ambiance and noisy immersion, electronic and acoustic elements expressing emotional and mental states that are ever changing. “Somebody Else’s Song” was their first true “New York album” since the band’s relocation from Chicago, and much of the weight comes from the personal change inherent from living in a new place as life continues to whir around us. The duo took their time, the ideas coming into formation over the course of two years. That patience is apparent as the album unfolds, a balance between vulnerability and enormous shapeshifting rhythms.

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Washer

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Exploding In Sound)

33,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | US | Original (Exploding In Sound)

Disco Doom

Mt. Surreal

28,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | US | Original (Exploding In Sound)

Thirdface

Do With A Smile

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | US | Original (Exploding In Sound)

Knot

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Exploding In Sound)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In the simplest terms, Knot is effectively Krill's final lineup with an additional musician added in, but it's the particulars that highlight the differences between the two bands. In essence, Knot is a bigger, more ruminative version of Krill, but it's also something that's distinct unto itself. And on the band's debut album, which is called Knot, too, it's easy to see that Knot has a perspective all its own. Where Krill dealt in giddy bursts of energy that explored the ugliest neuroses of twenty-somethings, Knot is more restrained and deliberate. All those guitars build off one another, with each member playing their own distinct part'ones that often feel alien from the next'until they all coalesce into these big washes of melodic dissonance. Taken in full, Knot is both a logical continuation and a fresh start.

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Dig Nitty

Reverse Of Mastery

15,99 €* 19,99 € -20%

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | US | Original (Exploding In Sound)

Shell Of A Shell

Away Team

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Let The Shit House Burn Down

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dissonant and complex, Nashville's Shell of a Shell, lead by Chappy Hull(Pile, Gnarwhal), use their music to pivot between overwrought feelings and the kick in the teeth needed to get up and keep going. They rip through swirling and jittery sonic bliss and crushing celestial dirges, flexing their capabilities through polyrhythmic nuance and tangled melodic introspection. 'Away Team'is a very personal record, built on internal feelings of doubt, guilt, reflection, and unshakeable depression. It's not all bummed out though, Shell of a Shell work a muscular fury in to their songs, pummeling their way through shifting moods and a glimmering hope for humanity. As thoughts swirl around, the mix of light and dark is what saves us all from sinking too deep. 'Away Team' is blistering with post-hardcore energy, built on elements of noise rock and old-school emo, the band juxtapose a sensitive touch with their propulsive depths and immersive structures. There's a duality to the album in both the songwriting itself and the ability to just let go and let things wander, as the first half of the record is short and concise, the second half is expansive but tight and focused, exploring extended timeframes to build nuance and set tone. Due outFebruary 28thvia Exploding In Sound Records, the band are set to tour this Spring. With their incredible full length debut, Shell of a Shell are letting us view behind the curtains; highs and lows explored with a musical dexterity that goes far beyond their years.

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Kal Marks

17,99 €*

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bethlehem Steel

15,99 €* 19,99 € -20%

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Maneka

Devin

20,99 €*

Green And Gray Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Maneka is the musical project of Devin McKnight. A familiar presence in music circles for much of the past decade, McKnight has made appearances in projects like Grass Is Green and most prominently as the guitarist in Speedy Ortiz, with his lead parts underpinning their 2015 breakthrough Foil Deer. He amicably left Speedy Ortiz in 2017 with the intention of developing his own voice as a songwriter, and quickly released his first EP under the Maneka name which was praised by publications like Billboard, Stereogum and DIY. Now McKnight is releasing his debut full length as Maneka, an album entitled Devin, a deeply personal release that encapsulate the musical experience of one of the more distinct and multifaceted performers currently making guitar music. The album, which nods to genres as varied as grindcore, jazz, shoegaze, hip hop, new wave and post-punk, is a celebration of McKnights identity as a musician and a person. Thematically the album digs deep into the corresponding territory of McKnights experience as a musician and a person of color in America, exploring a perspective that is rarely represented in indie rock. His embrace of this thematic direction is reflective of the lessons learned over the course of his career so far. The results are consistently engaging, and surprising. The album is an incredibly personal document that succeeds in communicating, with depth, clarity, humor and emotional directness, the experiences that make Devin McKnight who he is.

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Pile

25,99 €*

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2017 | US | Original (Exploding In Sound)

Washer

All Aboard

LP | 2017 | US | Original (Exploding In Sound)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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All Aboard, Washers sophomore album out via Exploding In Sound, is a record that finds the duo reaching new heights, blending aggressive pop music together with off-kilter structures, earnest lyrics, and minimalist garage rock.

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Two Inch Astronaut

Can You Please Not Help