On their steady path from friends making lo-fi freak-folk to bandmates going proggy art-pop, Bruiser and Bicycle always find a calming center at the heart of their otherwise dizzying albums. Deep Country, their third album and follow-up to 2023’s Holy Red Wagon, takes that grounding reassurance to new depths, with shades of jangle pop and vintage progressive folk. Recorded live—a first for the Albany, New York, band—with a 15-song tracklist, the album’s sprawling 75-minute runtime shouldn’t intimidate as much as welcome you to take an edible and get lost. Let pairings like the fingerpicked jitters of the six-minute “Waterfight”—where, yes, the vocal harmonies sound just like Animal Collective—into the airy jazz drumming of “Sinister Sleep Shuffle” remind you what it feels like to stop worrying and just be present.
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Feeo: Goodness [AD 93]
Now established as a maestro of London’s experimental underground, Feeo lands at AD 93 with a suite of droning, ambient, and softly psychedelic electronic music on her debut album. The compositions of Goodness warp, buzz, and whirr beneath Feeo’s distracted vocals, which, in contrast to the intricate electronics, seem exhumed from ancient folk song. The record follows her EP Run Over and collaborations with Loraine James and Caius Williams.
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