Welcome to the second Pressing Concerns of the week! This Friday (February 16th) is such a big release week that I’m going ahead and starting early by looking at two records coming out then: a new album from Friko and a new EP from Otherworldly Things (although the latter is already up on Bandcamp ifContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Friko, Tim McNally, Otherworldly Things, Loveblaster”
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Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2023 (25-1)
Here it is! Rosy Overdrive’s 25 favorite albums of 2023, revealed today along with albums 50 through 26, and coming a day after albums 51 through 100. This was the hardest year yet in terms of the top; specifically, the top twelve albums on the list I kept rearranging up until press time. I’m moreContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2023 (25-1)”
New Playlist: July 2023
Welcome to the July 2023 Rosy Overdrive playlist! There’s a ton of great music from this year in this one (I think that there’s only one song on here that didn’t originally come out in 2023, so you can’t accuse Rosy Overdrive of not being hip and current. Well, you can’t accuse RO of notContinue reading “New Playlist: July 2023”
Pressing Concerns: Upper Wilds, ‘Jupiter’
Release date: July 21stRecord label: Thrill JockeyGenre: Fuzz rock, space rock, noise popFormats: Vinyl, digital Upper Wilds continue to storm through our Solar System loudly and grandly with their fourth album. Jupiter is the Brooklyn trio’s third entry that started with 2018’s Mars, a science fiction concept album inspired by imagined future attempts to colonizeContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Upper Wilds, ‘Jupiter’”
New Playlist: June 2023
Welcome to a weird sort-of holiday weekend–tomorrow’s the fourth of July, and I’m pleased to present Rosy Overdrive’s June 2023 playlist for you to throw on while you grill your various foods (for the Americans among us, at least). A lot of great brand new selections on this one! Jason Isbell and the 400 UnitContinue reading “New Playlist: June 2023”
New Playlist: May 2023
It’s time for a ton of new music this Monday. Today sees the grand unveiling of Rosy Overdrive’s May 2023 playlist, and boy, this one’s an all-timer. I would call it a classic (a word I would also use for many of the songs which make it up). PONY, Poppy Patica, Greg Mendez, Rob I.Continue reading “New Playlist: May 2023”
The Playlist Archives: January 2018
I’ve been meaning to go into my playlist archives again for a while, and early January seems like a good time to do it. So: we’re skipping back half a decade, looking at what music I was listening to in January of 2018. It appears that it’s mostly 2017 albums that I discovered through year-endContinue reading “The Playlist Archives: January 2018”
Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2021 (25-1)
Hello, readers! This is it–the final twenty-five records in Rosy Overdrive’s 100 favorites of the year. More context can be found in the first post if needed, but let me just say: these albums are all phenomenal. I loved more records this year than any other in a long time, and these 25 I lovedContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2021 (25-1)”
New Playlist: July 2021
We’re back! The latest edition of the Rosy Overdrive monthly playlist covers the songs I enjoyed listening to in July. Plenty of new music here, but also a higher proportion of “archival” selections than the last couple of months—I’ve finished my 1991 deep dive and I’ve moved onto 1996, so there are several selections fromContinue reading “New Playlist: July 2021”
Pressing Concerns: Upper Wilds, Psychic Flowers, Hello Whirled, Nat Baldwin
The latest edition of Pressing Concerns highlights new albums from Upper Wilds, Psychic Flowers, Hello Whirled, and Nat Baldwin. Plenty of familiar faces this time around! The next post on Rosy Overdrive should be the end-of-July wrap-up playlist, so look for that either next week or the week after, depending on time. Meanwhile, you canContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Upper Wilds, Psychic Flowers, Hello Whirled, Nat Baldwin”
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