Aquarium Drunkard :: 2025 Midyear Review

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As always, unruly and unranked. Let it blurb.

Little Mazarn — Mustang Island (Dear Life) Little Mazarn - Mustang Island Little Mazarn works in the intersection between nature and magic, bending quiet, lightly harmonized melodies into luminous shapes, while describing ordinary things in a....

“Little Mazarn works in the intersection between nature and magic, bending quiet, lightly harmonized melodies into luminous shapes,” writes Jennifer Kelly. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7867940... @dearliferecs.bsky.social

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…

New blog post! Wrote about a new compilation from The Feelies @barnonerecords.bsky.social, plus new records from Whitney's Playland @dandyboyrecords.bsky.social @meritoriorec.bsky.social, Michael Robert Chadwick @anxietyblanket.bsky.social, and Little Mazarn @dearliferecs.bsky.social:

Lovely review of Little Mazarn's 'Mustang Island' from @jenpkelly.bsky.social w/Dusted- out tomorrow on @dearliferecs.bsky.social!

Out this Friday 6/20! Austin trio Little Mazarn's beautiful new album 'Mustang Island' via @dearliferecs.bsky.social

The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, May 2025 Our monthly round-up of folk, bluegrass, roots rock, Americana, and all things country-ish.

Florry is "sounding bigger and better than ever, pushing the bygone giants of the genre...through a modern DIY perspective and coming out both perfectly ragged and more refined at the same time." @bensalmon.bsky.social @bandcamp.com @dearliferecs.bsky.social daily.bandcamp.com/best-country...

Florry: Sounds Like... Read Shaad D’Souza’s review of the album.

Florry "rips through a set of free-spirited barnstormers with such ease and joy that even its tales of raw feelings and perpetual malaise feel uplifting." 8/10 for 'Sounds Like..." ⚡️ @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/reviews/albu... @dearliferecs.bsky.social

'Sounds Like...' "...is a glorious romp through lush Americana soundscapes." KEXP's @chris-sanley.bsky.social on Florry's latest album! Out now via @dearliferecs.bsky.social www.kexp.org/read/2025/5/...

terrific live set from @hourdayweek.bsky.social coming at ya next Saturday with Chris on @wfmu.bsky.social 📡 #folk #chamber #experimental #philly 👉 www.wfmu.org/playlists/C7

Out This Week | Post-Trash Highlights — POST-TRASH A weekly post highlighting but a few of our favorite new releases in splendid alphabetical order, brief and (hopefully) informative. There’s a lot of great music out every week and these are but some ...

check out our latest "Out This Week" feature with @stereolabgroop.bsky.social, BRNDA, Florry (@dearliferecs.bsky.social), Moontype (@orindal.bsky.social), Ossuary, Science Man (@swimmingfaith.bsky.social), Boldy James + Your Boy Posca, and more! post-trash.com/news/2025/5/...

Pressing Concerns: Headphones, Florry, Forty Winks, Wipes Wake up, it’s the Thursday Pressing Concerns! Four records that are coming out tomorrow, May 19th! New albums from Florry and Wipes, a new EP from Forty Winks, and a deluxe reissue of a twent…

New blog post! Wrote about the deluxe reissue of Headphones' only album @suicidesqueeze.bsky.social @pedrothelion.bsky.social, plus new records from Florry @dearliferecs.bsky.social, Forty Winks @craftedsounds.bsky.social, and Wipes:

Sounds Like… Someone forgot to tell the house band it was last call and lights out a few hours ago. And thankfully so. Each song on Florry’s latest, Sounds Like…, plays out bleary eyed and bled through.

"'Sounds Like…' is a blissed out mess that showcases Medosch’s step forward as a songwriter, but with zero loss of energy" 8/10 @undertheradar.bsky.social on the new LP from Florry, out this Friday on @dearliferecs.bsky.social! www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/soun...

Florry - "Sounds Like…" | Album Review — POST-TRASH With principal songwriter and singer Francie Medosch now based in Vermont, Florry approaches their new album Sounds Like… with the same easygoing, effortless feel as all great country rockers do. …

Florry's "Sounds Like..." reviewed by Myles Tiessen. Out this Friday, May 23rd, via @dearliferecs.bsky.social.

Pressing Concerns: Michael Cormier-O’Leary, Gueersh, BIKE, Alien Eyelid It’s a Monday, and we’ve got four more great new albums to talk about on Pressing Concerns. Today deals with new records from Michael Cormier-O’Leary, Gueersh, BIKE, and Alien Eye…

From two years ago: Wrote about records from Michael Cormier-O’Leary @milkocromlom.bsky.social @dearliferecs.bsky.social, Gueersh, BIKE, and Alien Eyelid @talltexanrecords.bsky.social:

Incredible review of Florry's upcoming new LP over at @aquariumdrunkard.com 🖤 (thanks @jenpkelly.bsky.social!) @dearliferecs.bsky.social

INTERVIEW: Florry Is In It For the Ride Philly DIY band Florry proudly carry on the ramshackle warmth endemic to the scene. In our interview, bandleader Francie Medosch tells us how the band approaches live music.

In her @rainbowrodeo.bsky.social interview, Medosch reveals the neuroses inherent in her songs' characters and the ways Florry approaches their commitment to live music: rainbowrodeomag.com/interview-fl... @dearliferecs.bsky.social @rachelcholst.bsky.social

"Irresistible slacker anthem from Philly’s Florry. “First it was a movie, then it was a book” explores a landscape similar to Kurt Vile & MJ Lenderman, with a hint of free-spirited Southern groove and endless late-night, country-rock jam spirit." @dearliferecs.bsky.social tidal.com/magazine/art...

Little Mazarn Announces Mustang Island Since their earliest EP back in 2016, Little Mazarn has felt like a great secret within the confines of the Austin music scene+ADs they are the artists+ACYAIw-8217+ADs artists+ADs they are a band with...

Jumped into repping the ATX scene with Little Mazarn's expansive new tune for @dearliferecs.bsky.social

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From a year ago: Wrote about records from Mythical Motors
@repeatingcloud.com @mythicalmotors.bsky.social, Bill Baird @perpetualdoom.bsky.social @blondebill.bsky.social, Hour @dearliferecs.bsky.social @hourdayweek.bsky.social, and Trummors @ejrc.bsky.social @trummors.bsky.social:

"First it was a movie, then it was a book" ..."surges along through waves of pedal-steel-fried Southern guitar rock, breaking away from the jam session occasionally for some revved-up Francie Medosch vocals." @stereogum.bsky.social shares the latest from Florry! @dearliferecs.bsky.social

Philadelphia alt-country band Florry are releasing a new album, "Sounds Like…," on May 23 on Dear Life (@dearliferecs.bsky.social). This week they have shared the album’s latest single, the expansive 7-minute long “First it was a movie, then it was a book.”
www.undertheradarmag.com/news/florry_...

Best New Songs (April 10, 2025) Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

"This is everything I want rock music to sound like in 2025."
@pastemagazine.bsky.social on the new single "First it was a movie, then it was a book" from @florrymusicband! @dearliferecs.bsky.social
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Fust — Big Ugly (Dear Life) Photo by Graham Tolbert Fust - Spangled The North Carolina-based Fust flexes its country rock muscles in this third full-length, its hangdog tales delivered in sweeping, twangy crescendos. The band,.....

“The North Carolina-based Fust flexes its country rock muscles in this third full-length, its hangdog tales delivered in sweeping, twangy crescendos,” writes Jennifer Kelly. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7798180... @dearliferecs.bsky.social

Florry's "Hey Baby" included in this most excellent Viking's Choice mixtape from @totalvibration.bsky.social // @dearliferecs.bsky.social

"a splendid, gutsy tune" from Florry, "Hey Baby," is out now! @dearliferecs.bsky.social @ourculture.bsky.social

Lead by the parched but potent vocals of Francie Medosch and a rather blistering solo from John Murray, Florry picks right up where the sunburnt charms of The Holey Bible left off. Wrapped around regrets, the cut laments, but never leaves you wanting. @dearliferecs.bsky.social bit.ly/3Dm3j1p

Florry’s New Album ’Sounds Like...’ Is Influenced By ’Jackass’ Theme It’s the group’s first album since 2023’s ’The Holey Bible’

Florry releases "rollicking first single “Hey Baby”"off their upcoming new album 'Sounds Like...', out 5/23 on @dearliferecs.bsky.social! @uproxx.bsky.social @joshkurp.bsky.social uproxx.com/indie/florry...

We spoke to the North Carolina-based alt-country band Fust about their new album, "Big Ugly," which is out today on Dear Life (@dearliferecs.bsky.social). www.undertheradarmag.com/interviews/f...