Ninth Post: Five Singles (8/18)

Second installment of the singles posts. More actual posts coming soon.

The Wytches - C-Side
This is a piece of scuzzy, throwback lo-fi rock music from the UK. This song comes from the upcoming album "All Your Happy Life", the follow-up to the excellent 2014 album "Annabel Dream Reader". That album featured a lot of genre crossover, with modern alternative music trends bleeding into "harder" genres, making a garage-rock album that had some serious teeth to it. This new song is a bit calmer, but still features the noisy, slightly demented angle that The Wytches have been working on over the past few years. It's a great single, painting a picture of where the band will go on the album. This is the lead single to "All Your Happy Life", out September 30th via Heavenly Recordings.
https://soundcloud.com/heavenlyrecordings/sets/the-wytches-c-side

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Limerent Death
TDEP is a legendary math-rock and technical metal band that have decided to break up after over 20 years. They have a signature, disorienting style, focused heavily on  technical grooves and angular, piercing guitar riffs. Lead singer from 2001 onwards Greg Puciato is an excellent vocalist for the band as well, flipping in tone and style on the fly, shouting in his mid-range and incredibly high screams to articulate the band's style. This song finds them doing what they've been known for extremely well - the first half of the song suddenly switches from slow and plodding to an almost indiscernible tempo set by shredding guitars. The last 45 seconds of the song are fantastic, building gradually to a repetition of the main theme. It's a shame TDEP is calling it quits, but it looks like they'll go out with a bang. "Dissociation" is out October 14th (my birthday!!) on Party Smasher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p4tQUBtsBw
https://tdep.lnk.to/Dissociation

Injury Reserve - Oh Shit!!!
This is shaping up to be one of the most fun hip-hop singles of the year. Following up the relatively good album "Live From the Dentist's Office" last year, Arizona-based rap group Injury Reserve return with a well-produced, funny, hype song featuring some of their best efforts yet. In their words, it's "spazz rap" - not something all that intellectual, but entertaining with a fun and hard edge to it. Also, it's called "Oh Shit!!!". I mean, how can you not?
https://soundcloud.com/injuryreserve/oh-shit

Darkthrone - Tundra Leech
One of the most influential Norwegian metal bands are back! Darkthrone, composed of Nocturno Culto and Fenriz, has been regarded as one of the best black metal bands of all time, although they have incorporated elements of death metal and speed metal into their sound. Just today they unveiled their new, heavy-as-hell lead single, "Tundra Leech". The song dips into death, speed and doom metal as well as their established black metal roots, creating an absolute monster of a song. The track is excellent, incorporating all the elements of a Darkthrone song that one would want. The changeup at the back end of the song is fantastic. Darkthrone have really put all fears aside with this track. "Arctic Thunder" also comes out on October 14th via Peaceville.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwz7gucE7x0
https://www.burningshed.com/store/peaceville/product/233/7884/

Touché Amoré - Skyscraper (feat. Julien Baker)
TA is a post-hardcore band from Burbank that's been at it for a while, right now gearing up to release "Stage Four", their fourth album. Their last record, "Is Survived By", featured the band heading in a more accessible direction, incorporating alternative rock into their sound. Bolm's traditionally intense and versatile vocal delivery was matched with equally expressive instrumentation. This album seems to be heading down that road even further, adding fantastic indie singer/songwriter Julien Baker into the mix for this second single, and the last track of the album. The vocals are subdued, the track all heading to the conclusion, where Baker and Bolm's vocals mix beautifully in a flurry of guitar and drum passages. The album seems to be a step away and forward for TA, and one I'm pretty excited about. "Stage Four" is out September 16th on Epitaph Records.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkm_U9HD1wY
https://lnk.to/toucheamore