Speedy Ortiz gig was the best gig ever tbh they're so fucking good live and I cried during Brace Thee (also they were taking donations for esims for Gaza which I gave the rest of my pounds to)
Also i'm officially an Internet friend of Sadie's now 😁
What is UP, my dudes?! It’s Friday again, meaning it’s time for another NEW RELEASE ROUND-UP! Which of these new releases is your personal favorite? Let me know in the comments, and suggest your own new releases for the week if they’re not listed! 💿
This album also came out today. Because today is the best day for music ever maybe holy shit. This is some of the best music Speedy Ortiz has put out since their hit album Major Arcana. Every song has that classic bouncy and almost eerie aesthetic with loads of grimey and out their chords and scales. On top of that Sadie does an amazing job at tying the themes of this album together with her guitar playing and singing. Some really touching lyrics as well as genuinely awesome vocal performances. This is that classic Boston flop Indie music that I love and Speedy Ortiz are probably the best band doing that sound right now.
At the moment, Speedy Ortiz and Sad13 frontwoman Sadie Dupuis is on a nationwide book tour supporting her latest poetry release, Cry Perfume. She loves her words and her prose, a lot! Have you seen her annual stack of books read? That adulation is really beginning to permeate her songwriting approach as well on “Scabs”, the first new Speedy music since 2018's Twerp Verse. Leave it to Dupuis to make its tongue-twisted callout on performative politics (“Who do you wanna prove you’re a big dog to? / You turn the screw but you’re using the wrong size tool”) sound easy to fall from the lips while executing use of the phrase “comment slop” and “monosyllables” in a way that defines one another from ends both ugly and eloquent -- much like the most vocal of the virtue signaling bunch dressing up doing absolutely nothing as something more. Beyond Dupuis upping her wordsmith game, so has the band in its latest form, with guitarist Andy Molholt, bassist Audrey Zee Whitesides, and drummer Joey Doubek sounding even more effortlessly elastic between Sarah Tudzin of Illuminati Hotties' bursting pop production. In a world tangled up in its own words, Speedy Ortiz are making sense of what’s really being said in it all.
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Speedy Ortiz’ “Scabs” single is available now on Wax Nine Records.
Speedy Ortiz Rabbit Rabbit release show at Rough Trade NYC!!! So happy + grateful I got to see them play tonight :') they inspire me + make my brain feel good with all the unexpected sounds!