Lots of Iron & Wine and generally bittersweet tunes lately.
The long awaited new Shpongle album, Codex VI was released last week. I've heard some complaints that it isn't as rhythmically complex or musically or structurally intricate as their other albums, which I think might be true. Simplicity or complexity has no correlation with how music makes you feel though and this feels very Shpongly. So much so it's almost like a self-parody in places. Let's face it though, if you like the genre, they're still head and shoulders above the vast majority of the many (...soooo many) new releases and bands sprouting up.
grandson - Kiss Bang Not sure how to categorize this type of music, except that it's some sort of rock.
Is garage rock still a thing? Reminded me of The Lime Spiders
Garage Rock is very, very much still a thing! Most things from Burger Records are garage or psych rock. Fidlar put out some great music a couple years back, Dude York is very much grunge influenced garage rock but holy shit the chorus of that song is something else, The Love Language are one of my favorite recent discoveries, and to get a little "world", here's a band from Lisbon.
I've had this song stuck in my head all day yesterday: I learned about it from this crazy commercial: I've also been looping this song for background listening from the new Mario game, hearing it for the first time in game was genuinely jaw dropping and completely unexpected: