Pressing Concerns: Shrubs, Eliksa, Smirk, Mirrorball

Welcome to the Thursday Pressing Concerns! It’s a bit of a hodge-podge this week (it’s a holiday weekend in the States, which may have something to do with it), but there’s still plenty to enjoy here with a new album from Smirk, a posthumous release from Shrubs, and new EPs from Eliksa and Mirrorball. Check them out below, and if you missed Monday’s blog post (featuring Fire Man, NAYAN, Lovewell, and The Hobknobs), check that out too. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’d like to support Rosy Overdrive, you can share this (or another) post, or donate here. Shrubs – Rising Release date: July 4thRecord label: FABCOM!Genre: College rock, folk rock, power pop, roots rock, garage rockFormats: CD, digitalPull Track: Here We Go Again From 1994 to 2018, Shrubs were a New Jersey rock trio making what we’d sometimes call “college rock”, a mixture of power pop, garage rock, psychedelia, folk rock, and roots…