Welcome to a Thursday Pressing Concerns! We have new albums from Antietam, Spread Joy, and Soft Science, plus a reissue from Sharp Pins. Check them out below, and if you missed the July and August playlist that went up on Monday, 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. Sharp Pins – Mod Mayday 23 (Reissue)…

A track exchange involves two people prompting each other to pen their thoughts about a track that the other has chosen for them. A copy of this note is published on James’s website. James’s pick for me was ‘iPod Touch’ from Ninajirachi’s 2025 debut record I love my computer, which introduced me not only to contemporary Electronic Dance Music (EDM) but also to the term ‘bloghouse’. This collaboration has made me realise a couple of things: one is that there are some genres I have steered clear…

Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when your time and interest align. Tracks are added to…

Think back to your childhood: What is your earliest music memory? Share that song and your story! Atarah’s Band is my earliest wholly music focussed memory. A flautist who took an orchestra on tour with a show aimed at kids. I can’t remember much more than a flamed hair woman, and being invited up to pick a percussion instrument to play. All very vague, it was the late 70s and whilst music was a constant in our house —my piano lessons were about to start— this visit to Kelvinhall, this…

An honest answer is “all kinds,” but that's also an annoying answer because then you are stuck wondering “So is this guy a music fan or is he just undiscerning?” I think a better answer is to say something like “When I was a teenager I became obsessed with music and that’s never really changed. I liked Queens of the Stone Age and a math rock band called Hella. Now I listen to all sorts of things. I've been listening a lot to a folk musician named Hannah Frances recently.” There. That gives lots…

Many thanks to Tobias Reber of Musikfestival Bern for sharing this video from one of our five project collaborations this year. (More photos below.) As part of Musikfestival Bern 2026, which takes «Blitz» (flash/lightning) as its theme, a ping pong table has been set up in the newly renovated PROGR courtyard for passers-by to play quick matches against musicians, artists, and each other. During lunch hours, matches are dynamically scored with outsized storm sounds, triggered with piezo mics…

This collaboration was originally conceived nearly a decade ago, when Toby Tobias AKA Alphonse met Seraphina Simone at Glastonbury. The song was promptly cut in 2017, but until now was hidden away on Tobias’ hard drive. Dusted down, polished up and given a trio of fresh remixes, Ran$om Note are about to finally make the track public. My pick remains the original “Main” mix, whose weirdness sort of sits on a musical / genre border, recalling when late `80s industrial and acid house met. Picture…

There's a few months every year which end up becoming absolutely clogged with new releases. August was one of them. And then I made my life even more hectic by buying so much other crap. New Music Immediate ImpressionsPhoebe Bridgers - Lost Weekend P-Bro could've taken the easy route. The double-whammy of Punisher and Boygenius' self-titled album turned her into a generation-crossing super star, and if she had had the desire to do so she could've comfortably leaned onto the now-popular sad girl…

Women Of Music - volume 28Elise (of Elise and the Cats) on cover tracklistAnn Jones & Her American Sweethearts - Monkey Business.mp3 Blinky - Life Can Be Beautiful If We Make It That Way.mp3 Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss).mp3 Cherry Wainer _ Itchy Twitchy Feeling.mp3 Elise and the Cats - Blue Suede Shoes.mp3 Ida James - The Chair Song.mp3 Johnny Ryall - Little Gypsy.mp3 Mabel Scott - Baseball Boogie.mp3 Madeline Kahn - Ain't Got No Home.mp3 Nola York - Here I Stand.mp3 Sonya -…

Chal Ravens has written a lovely in-depth review of Still In A Dream at London Review of BooksThere's even an LRB playlist so you can listen as you readKieran Press-Reynolds has a really entertaining survey of the stutter in pop and unpop music, from "K-K-K-Katy" to "Melatonin", 1918 to 2026, over at PitchforkThere's a playlist for that piece tooI feel like there's some stutter and stammer

5/5 golden merles “Come Ye & Follow Me“, newly released from Los Angeles Noise/Freak Folk outfit The Clog, is great and conspicuously graceful work. Within, acolytes suss out the true cost of devotion or defiance, a heralding flush with novel melodic elaborations and decaying poise. Well beyond the depths of practical derision, the vocal components are constantly straining to subvert the anticipated cues, willfully shirking the numbers. Yet it is always running adjacent or parallel to precedent…

It's the dream of all frontier reenactors to have a fort to play with and these guys have achieved it so congratulations to them. This has been the base for the German Butlers Rangers. Class.

Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1170/resonance

Sometimes I can’t put a finger on what it is that makes one band’s sound appealing to me while another might bore me, but in the case of London’s World News, I knew what it was immediately – they love the flanger. Or more importantly, they love it the right way – speed low, resonance […] The post World News – “Sidestep” appeared first on Space Echo.

Looking for something to do in Brighton this weekend? I’ve got ya covered. Come to the excellent Prince Albert pub on Trafalger Street at 8pm on Saturday, September 5th. Head upstairs with your ticket. There you will be treated to an excellent triple bill. First up is Figure In The Half Light AKA Charlie McConnochie: Expect dreamy, fractured songs of dark and light. Then it’s The Self Help Group: Americana-influenced vocal harmonies, emotional tales and intertwining melodies. The headliners are…

Johnnie White - Happy Birthday Cake Boogie - M-S Johnnie White - My Tattooed Wife - M-S 45 M-S RecordsM-S 2251970Songs obviously inspired by those recorded in 1950 on Fortune Records while Johnnie White was the leader of his group featuring Skeets McDonald. Today, Skeets McDonald is held in much higher regard than Johnnie White, and well remenbered : Bear Family has issued on him a five CDs boxset and Nick Tosches has devoted.a full chapter in his book : Whom In The End The Tattooed Lady Slew.*…

Buffalo Springfield - Interview (May 1966)Alas, no one has unearthed a 60-year-old recording of the Buffalo Springfield at the Cheetah club in Santa Monica. That would be cool, though, right?! The earliest days of the Springfield onstage are frustratingly out of reach for the most part — and the band members themselves (perhaps with a little fuzzy hindsight) usually point to that era as the peak of the band as a live act. However! A very early recording of the BS emerged recently — an interview…

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 29th May 2026 Originally published: https://thesleepingshaman.com/reviews/godthrymm-projections/ I’m not quite ready to induct Godthrymm fully into the Yorkshire Doom Hall of Fame (which is not a thing, but really should be a thing) but the journey of legendary My Dying Bride guitarist Hamish Glencross and his pet project has been something very exciting to behold. Bursting back into the scene on 2018’s ‘A Grand Reclamation’, and then their incredible 2020…

Dolly Parton and Tim Curry died last week, both 80. While their endings were significant events in their own way, they’re ending also signified something more general, which is the beginning of the end of the Baby Boomers. Both Parton and Curry were born the year when the baby boom occurred, post World War II. … Continue reading On the beginning of the end of the baby boom

Rahaty: Bestial LustmordOut 28th August on Sentient Ruin Another attempt to bleed the deathgrind sponge dry without refreshing the underlying template. This time by taking things in a blackened direction in the Finnish mould. Although this album nails a certain cavernous aesthetic, the underlying architecture fails to trouble anyone accustomed to the extremity foregrounded across this material. The problem is either one of too much order or not enough. Unlike Moonchapel for example, Rahaty…

Death Is Not The End takes avant-garde LPs originally released by a New York artist-owned label and reissues them as cassettes.... Earth Libraries takes avant-garde cassettes originally released by a New York artist-owned label and reissues them as vinyl LPs.... TELLUS: The Audio Cassette Magazine Anthology Vol. 1 is two metallic silver vinyl discs and 36 tracks of selections from the long-running series of multi-artist tapes compiled and issued by the downtown Manhattan imprint Tellus from…

Perfume PosseDolly Parton Scent from Above Now I have always been a big fan of Dolly Parton. Although I am not a big fan of country music there are some exceptions and Dolly was one of them. I thought she had a lovely, pure voice that… Continue Reading → Perfume PosseDolly Parton Scent from Above

Erykah Badu & The Alchemist “Love Me Not” “Love Me Not” is a song that is in large part about waxing your bush and ends with a skit in which Erykah Badu endures a particularly painful waxing appointment, but there’s a lot more going on in the song besides that. It’s mostly about Badu confronting what she’s willing to put up with for love. The bush-waxing is one thing, but what about when he doesn’t give you real affection? What about when it’s clear that you’re making all the compromises and he…

Friends for 30 years and former bandmates in The Sabres Of Paradise and The Aloof, drummer Rich Thair and bassist Nick Abnett have now teamed up as Spraycan. Getting together for unplanned, improvised jams, in Thair’s Buntys studio, ably assisted by only rudimentary 80s analogue machines and effects units. Two of the raw, first-take results of these sessions have been cut to a 12 for Todmorden’s Golden Lion Sounds. “RahRahRah” is a slow, ponderous piece of post-punk dub. Shaken by bursts of…

Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 4th July 1986 In a landmark year for thrash, some would say THE year for thrash as a genre, it would seem that even the less famous bands were putting out their defining records and that would read true for Arizona’s Flotsam and Jetsam, and their classic record ‘Doomsday for the Deceiver’. The first record to ever receive the legendary 6K rating in Kerrang magazine (although I cannot actually find a list of how many other records received such a rating),…

August is the deadest month.And somehow, even though you've been here so many times before, you're never prepared for the way that each week feels deader than the one before. Until finally it's the last week of August and it's like Time's clock has stopped. . . .Hang on a minuteI have a powerful sensation of deja vu. A sicky suspicion that I wrote exactly these words last year. Or was it the year before?Well, I suppose that only goes to prove my point, in a way.But this August... this August…

Ceremonial Worship: Between Sleep and DeathOut 31st July on Eternal Death Undergoing something of an orchestral refit since their previous offering ‘Seven Gateways to Eternal Misanthropy’, the promo blurb accompanying this Greek’s outfit’s latest offering makes a lot of their…Greekness. And whilst they certainly do channel the intangible arcane sensation inherent to early Greek black metal, the bulk of this music looks more like the strife and fury of Gorgoroth, maintaining a captivating…

My latest piece for the The Wire: First spread of the pair that comprise my lengthy interview with longtime San Franciscan Pamela Z (for the magazine’s Invisible Jukebox series — issue 512, October 2026, the one with Mike Watt on the cover). We sat down at her longtime studio loft in the Mission to discuss 10 different tracks, which she was to identify and discuss. We talked about voice, sampling, STEIM, folk music, MIDI controllers, festival curation, opera, the pandemic, transcribing,…