The Alt Weekly Roundup (5/12/25)
Posted: by The Alt Editing Staff
The Alternative Weekly Roundup is a column where our staff plugs a variety of new releases in a concise, streamlined format. Albums, singles, videos, and live sets. Check back each Monday to see what we were jamming the week prior.
Racecourse – 95 S 58-61
Racecourse makes the kind of music you hear in a dream. Their new EP 95 S 58-61 might at various points remind you of Carissa’s Wierd, Grouper, or Sign Crushes Motorist–sparse lo-fi slowcore, vocals barely audible, spaces between notes stretching out for what feels like an eternity. It’s an intriguing debut for the Santa Clara quintet, and it’ll be interesting to see what twists and turns they add to their sound as they move forward.
Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison
Staircase Spirit – Not Even Once
Davie, FL, trio Staircase Spirit meld ominous strings with muddy alt rock licks all across their new EP Not Even Once. Eduardo Giralt twists and trills words in a way that recalls Daryl Palumbo and manages to turn even the low-key “New Frame” into an earworm. “Mew,” the centerpiece of the EP, is its best track, though, a breakneck fuzz rocker that releases all Staircase Spirit’s pent-up energy.
Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison
Flooding – “your silence is my favorite song”
Flooding’s newest single “your silence is my favorite song” finds the Kansas City trio descending into heavier territory while examining masculine fragility and “the perspective of narcissistic villain archetypes” with pummeling derision. A muzzy traipse through noisy aberrations, it blends droning disjointed melodies with eerie vocals that border on maniacal and at times recalls the sinister appeal of Babes in Toyland’s Kat Bjelland. With a new EP object 1 arriving this summer, it’s one of my most anticipated releases of the year.
Loan Pham | @x_loanp
Sunday (1994) – Devotion
Sunday (1994)’s take on dream pop is a bit more muscular than the name suggests. On their second EP Devotion, the UK trio cultivates eerie atmospheres (“Rain,” “Still Blue”) along with seismic hooks (“Doomsday,” “Picking Flowers”), with Paige Turner’s ghostly vocals tying the whole thing together.
Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison
Guerilla Toss – “Psychosis Is Just a Number”
Guerilla Toss delivered some of the catchiest post-punk tunes of the decade with Famously Alive, their fifth full-length and first for Sub Pop, but on “Psychosis Is Just a Number,” they might’ve outdone themselves. Guerilla Toss has never sounded so loose, so free, so alive as they do on the new single, which is brimming with verve and jubilant horns.
Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison
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