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[karlkronic]

Sirens & Slashers

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[topshelfrecords]

sorry we've been gone for a year

here's some film photos from sxsw 2023

love u <3 talk again soon

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[nofatclips]

Incandescent by Gingerlys from the self-titled album

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[sentimentoz]

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[asailorsdrunkeneulogy]

Pianos Become the Teeth || Good Times

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[notwhatyouexpectedd]

⛓️

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[librarycomic]

Super Trash Clash by Edgar Camacho. Translation by Eva Ibarzabal. Top Shelf / IDW, 2022. 9781603095167. 96pp. http://www.powells.com/book/-9781603095167?partnerid=34778&p_bt

A young woman, Dul, buys an old video game cartridge she sees in a shop window and then rushes home to play it. And as she does she relives a childhood memory when, as a video game-obsessed young girl, she wanted a copy of Super Encounter Champions 2 to play with her friend Misa. Her mom bought her another game instead, the very poorly rated Super Trash Clash. What Dul did with the game, and how her mom reacted when she found out, form the emotional core of the story and are the reasons the game means so much to Dul now that she's older.

It's a quick graphic novel, and its emotional punch will sneak up on you, particularly if you were once (like me) an ungrateful latchkey kid who only now (sometimes) appreciates what your parent(s) did for you. (Worth noting: I love the full-color pages, which have a matte finish -- I've read too many graphic novels  with slick, glossy paper recently.)

#bookreview #graphicnovel #graphicnovelreview #topshelf #idw

[abductionradiation]

Philadelphia, PA -- Last year, Sweet Pill released their incredible 10-track debut album Where the Heart Is on Topshelf Records. Last week, the band shared the music video for “Dog Song,” a rowdy track with an irresistible energy that’ll have listeners in a whirl. From the punchy start of the track to the daze-y chorus, “Dog Song” teeters between a high and low energy that emulate the feelings of spinning round and round. Written from the perspective of a dog chasing its own tail, Sweet Pill captures that sweet initial rush in the beginning of the chase. And with the chorus and final verse slowing it down, they’ve captured the satisfied (yet somewhat contemplative) comedown that follows a burst of energy. The song is so perfectly balanced and the emotional catalyst will have you feeling cleansed.

Where the Heart Is by Sweet Pill

On the music video, Sweet Pill’s Zayna Youssef shares: "This vid is so special because it has all of our babies! It features the illustrious Muffin Youssef, my 14 year-old shih-tzu, accompanied by Honey Williams, and Ruby McCall. "Dog Song" is sung from the POV of a dog chasing its own tail, looking upon a fast-paced world moving at a blur. Our friends and fans brought their dogs to the shoot to showcase their cute and friendly pups, giving us a chance to hang out and see the world from these pups' POVs."

Connect with Sweet Pill:

Twitter | Instagram

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[dustedmagazine]

Ratboys — The Window (Topshelf)

Ratboys are a boisterous, emotions-on-sleeves indie rock band out of Chicago on the verge of something big. The band, which started as a duo but now includes four regular members, has five full-lengths to its credit, including this one. Although you could trace an arc from mid-teens basic rock to early 2020s Crutchfield-adjacent twangy mayhem, these albums have a consistent core. The Ratboys sound centers around the yelping, gulping, volatile singing of one Julia Steiner and a ferocious guitar racket courtesy of the other founder Dave Sagan.

This album begins in a buzz of feedback and the album’s hardest-charging beat and riffery. It’s called “Making Noise for the Ones You Love,” and indeed, it busts out the doors and grabs the ears, whether Ratboys loves you or not. Marcus Nuccio wallops the skins off his kits behind this one, kayo-ing the beat with reckless abandon, while big spirals of rock guitar arc off the primitive assault. But it’s Steiner’s keening, confiding, sharp-edged vocals that catch you up. She can wail like a banshee or sing conversationally, with a little rasp on her finish and a chirruping high range that cuts through the mix. She sounds a little like the Beths’ Elizabeth Stokes and a whole lot like Allison Crutchfield, especially her work in Swearin’ which has a similar volume and aggression.

Not all of these cuts turn up to 11. The title, for instance, is relatively quiet, a mesh of nearly folky picking and Steiner in a sweeter, more country mode. The song, she says, is about her grandparents in the pandemic, her grandmother in a nursing home, her grandfather unable to visit, only allowed to view his life partner through a window. It’s a beautiful, heartbreaking song, full of rapturous, anthemic guitars and soaring choruses, and Steiner gets a full helping of emotion without sentimentality.

“It’s Alive,” is maybe the best song here, with its cool toned, contemplative verses and its lit-on-fire surging chorus. There are big bloopy slide notes and tamped back palm mutes in a song that swirls and eddies around a rock-solid rhythmic core. And again, those vocals, crazy excess and sweet solace wrapped up together with a wild bird’s cry in there somewhere. You can’t take your ear off someone this fascinating and unpredictable. She swoops and swoons and growls like Kristin Hersh but more country, and it’s worth a listen just to hear what she’ll do next.

Jennifer Kelly

#ratboys #the window #topshelf #jennifer kelly #albumreview #dusted magazine #indie #rock #twang #chicago #Bandcamp

[karlkronic]

We’ll dance, under a chandelier of stars.

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[topshelfrecords]

ATTN all toe heads: we've got their classic New Sentimentality EP re-pressed and available on "cardboard smear" vinyl now

#topshelf records #topshelf #vinyl #topshelfrecords #toe

[nofatclips]

Tangerine Spritz by Lunarette

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[moonrockogs]

🌌When life gives you lemons, make Lemon Cherry Gelato Moonrocks🌌

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[luuurien]

Sobs - Air Guitar

(Power Pop, Indie Rock, Jangle Pop)

A vision of indie rock where cosmopolitan power pop is steeped in the sound of 2000s electronica, skater punk and 90s twee pop, Sobs' first album in four years is the trio's every ambition realized. Pulling entirely away from the interior dream pop of their debut, Air Guitar's fizzy pop tunes give Celine Autumn's fantasies of love and heartbreak a timeless effervescence.

☆☆☆☆☆

From burnout often comes the most necessary artistic turnarounds, and that has never been truer for Sobs. Dropping into the 2010's indie pop scene with 2017's wonderfully pensive Catflap EP and their full-length debut Telltale Signs the year after, Sobs' relaxed bedroom pop sound made their hooks and chewy melodies land immediately and the trio's charm readily apparent, but it limited them to the point they needed to start exploring new ideas before stepping up to the plate again. Vocalist/guitarist Celine Autumn found herself embracing the brash and bold colors of hyperpop on her 2021 Cayenne EP, co-produced with Sobs bandmate Jared Lim, and the sugarcoated sound of those four glossy electropop tunes infects Sobs' jangly indie rock by way of 90s power pop and electronica, their sophomore album Air Guitar four years in the making with all the sharpness and perfection you'd expect from that timeframe as Autumn sings of cold romances and the anxiety of a sparkly new relationship with Lim's production and engineering evoking everything from skater punk to 90s twee pop to 80s new wave as he brightens up all the corners and leaves no area without a splash of neon paint. It's a constant rush of energy coming at you, but Sobs refuses to let a second of Air Guitar go to waste, their post-internet stew of modern production and classic indie rock formulas full of life and spotless no matter where you look. Lighter and lovelier than most of their fast-paced indie rock contemporaries, Sobs take advantage of power pop's huge choruses and crisp melodies in a myriad of genres, their inspirations ranging from Advantage Lucy's playful indie pop to C86 jangle pop to Weezer-indebted pop rock as Air Guitar scales up and down the trio's ambitious tree of ideas. Lucked Out stuffs a verse, two choruses and a bridge into less than two minutes, Autumn challenging herself to write the catchiest melody possible while Lim and Raphael Ong riff on noisy guitars and Shaun Khiu's killer drum work - his contributions to the album a constant delight whether it's the plain backbeat groove on Dealbreaker or LOML's four-on-the-floor kick & snare along with flashy drum fills when the moment calls. These are just some damn good pop songs, whether it comes in the form of Friday Night's drum 'n' bass-infused electropop, the grungy power pop highlight Burn Book, or a lighthearted Gwen Stefani in the case of Cool, Sobs' embrace of bigger instrumentation and hefty hooks holding onto the warmth and enclosure of their previous releases while making songs big enough to fill an entire stadium. Air Guitar is plain and simple indie pop through and through, but Sobs provide such a thrilling spin on things that they end up in a league entirely of their own. What balances all this bubblegum pop magic out is Autumn's songwriting and the band's thoughtful detours, Air Guitar's lamentations on unavailable love and the ache of new romance not just a layer of melancholy draped on top of raucous indie pop tunes but a core part of how the music unfolds. On the title track, sparkly synths and distortion-coated guitars play of the dissonance of an unnurturing partner she can't quite seem to drop ("I was searching for peace / But you swept through like nature / Changed the trajectory"), too nervous to officially end things but desperately searching for escape in the song's glimmering guitar work and tense percussion, and the post-punk kick of World Implode on the album's back half constructs a shoegaze noise wall around Autumn's most tender feelings of of imposter syndrome and held-back desire ("Is it weird, though I try to, I could never forget? / Does it make it any easier for us to pretend?"). Indie rock has existed at the intersection of introspection and escape for as long as easily accessible recording equipment has been around, but Sobs truly take advantage of it as technicolor swirls of noise pop (LOML) and synth-soaked jangle pop (Dealbreaker) juxtapose sensitive and heartfelt writing that draws from the history of confessional rock music without bending to its will, Sobs' own wavelength guiding them everywhere they go. Air Guitar is lovingly crafted pop songs with a dimension of depth and diversity to them few other bands can match, Sobs able to cram a discography's worth of ideas into 30 minutes and distill only the best elements of their music into these ten tracks regardless. It never feels overstuffed or hodgepodge because Sobs knows exactly how much they can fit into a good pop song before it completely bursts, always pushing the boundaries with Friday Night's surprise ending or the 90s grunge-pop kick of Burn Book but never losing tipping the scales too far one way. After four years of absence, they've absolutely nothing to lose and use the opportunity to try anything and everything with Air Guitar, their sublime hooks and fun instrumentation unsurprising for a trio so well-versed in indie pop but absolutely stunning in how they're contorted to execute some of the coolest ideas rock music has ran into this year. Air Guitar risks it all going for a home run time and time again, but they land every swing so solid that it's impossible to imagine how these songs could have turned out any other way.

#sobs #air guitar #topshelf #alternative rock #dream pop #indie pop #indie rock #jangle pop #pop #pop rock #power pop #rock #twee pop #2022 #10/10 #album review #album reviews #2022 albums #tumblr music

[greengoddesssupply]

Fridays are great, but Wednesdays are better! Happy Fr-high-day! #potheadsbelike #weedmemes #stonermemes #potheadnation #smokeweedeveryday #plantsoverpills #topshelf #sativadiva #blazeit #thatsdope #wakeandbake #chronicchicks #onlysmokethefinest #greengoddesssupply #stonerfriendly #somegirlsgethigh #highsociety #stayhighmyfriends #wfayo #cannababes #dankmemes #mmemberville (at Hopedale, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoxPxIJuCzs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[dankkush-shop]

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