Rosy Overdrive’s Top 25 EPs of 2025

EPs! My 25 favorites from this year, to be precise! A week after Rosy Overdrive wrapped its Top 100 Albums of 2025, the blog is sharing this smaller, (on average) more obscure, and all-around fun list. There’s a bunch of records in here that deserved way more attention this year than they ended up getting,Continue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 25 EPs of 2025”

New Playlist: June 2025

June 2025 playlist! Bunch of great new music, much of which has appeared on this blog before but you’ll see some new faces, too. Hopefully you’ll find something to take with you to your Fourth of July picnic (for the Americans, at least). Graham Hunt and HLLLYH have three songs on this playlist; Idle Ray,Continue reading “New Playlist: June 2025”

Pressing Concerns: The Feelies, Whitney’s Playland, Michael Robert Chadwick, Little Mazarn

Happy Juneteeth, everybody! Perhaps because of the holiday, it appears like this Friday (6/20) is a bit of a light week in terms of new music, but since there were enough upcoming releases I wanted to write about to make a full Pressing Concerns, we’re doing it anyway! We have an archival album from TheContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: The Feelies, Whitney’s Playland, Michael Robert Chadwick, Little Mazarn”

Pressing Concerns: Magic Fig, Crumbs, New Issue, Masonic Wave

Starting off the week with an all-timer of a Monday post, today we’ve got three albums that came out last Friday, May 17th (new LPs from Magic Fig, Crumbs, and New Issue), and an album from Masonic Wave that came out last month. If you like pop, psychedelia, noise rock, folk rock, or some combinationContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Magic Fig, Crumbs, New Issue, Masonic Wave”

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)”

Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2023 So Far (Part 1 of 2)

Welcome to what is roughly the middle of the year, which means that it’s time for Rosy Overdrive to select forty records that we’ve loved above the rest in the first half of 2023. The last few months have been the busiest ever for the blog, which means that I’ve covered a lot of goodContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2023 So Far (Part 1 of 2)”

New Playlist: March 2023

Welcome to Rosy Overdrive’s March 2023 playlist! With the new year in full swing, almost everything on it comes from music released in the past month or two, so there is a ton of brand new things here for you. I’m planning on doing some more listening to older music in April, so if youContinue reading “New Playlist: March 2023”

Pressing Concerns: Whitney’s Playland, The Lost Days, Tedward, Natural Velvet

Hello! It’s Pressing Concerns time again! Another big release day is nearly upon us–today’s post looks at three records coming out tomorrow, March 17th (Whitney’s Playland, The Lost Days, and Tedward), plus an EP from Natural Velvet that came out a couple weeks ago. This has been a rare three-post week on Rosy Overdrive: IfContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Whitney’s Playland, The Lost Days, Tedward, Natural Velvet”