Merry-Go-Round Magazine

1 week ago | merrygoroundmagazine.com | CJ Simonson

Webster’s Dictionary defines a “Love Triangle” as “a situation in which one member of a couple is involved in a love affair with a third person.”If you’ve made it to the second line of this review, I appreciate your confidence—yes, that’s a strikingly stupid way to start any piece of writing, let alone a critique of Celine Song’s much-anticipated PAST LIVES follow up, MATERIALISTS.

1 week ago | merrygoroundmagazine.com | CJ Simonson

Flesh Tape are built for our current moment. Frontman Larson Ross’s debut from last year, a brilliant standout in a crowded and unrelenting sea of shoegazing punk or post-hardcore noise projects, featured the kind of thoughtful anger and modern framing that has made acts like Chat Pile and Couch Slut feel so essential in recent years.

1 week ago | merrygoroundmagazine.com | CJ Simonson

It’s our Bandcamp Pick of the Week, featuring the stunning widescreen compositions of SONGS FOR SLEEPING DOGS from multi-instrumentalist Ben Hackett! Ben Hackett – SONGS FOR SLEEPING DOGS Genre: Ambient, Orchestral Favorite Tracks: “Nylon Bell Pot,” “18pp,” “Loose Change 2,” “Music For Wood and Tape,” “Tombo Hunts For Bamboo Shoots” There are moments on “Loose Changes 2,” the sweeping ten minute epic at the heart of Ben Hackett’s wistfully windswept SONGS FOR SLEEPING DOGS, that recall the...

3 weeks ago | merrygoroundmagazine.com | CJ Simonson

It’s our Bandcamp Picks, featuring a pair of rippers in Elvis 2’s acid soaked garage rock record THANK YOU VERY MUCH and Dutch Interior’s eclectic dudes rock album MONEYBALL!ELVIS 2 – THANK YOU VERY MUCHGenre: Garage RockFavorite Tracks: “Mach 10,” “On The Motorway”Nothing about ELVIS 2 as a project is all that serious.

1 month ago | merrygoroundmagazine.com | CJ Simonson

It’s our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring the collaboration between Color Green’s Corey Madden and Ty Segall, FRECKLE, and of the moment post-country Chicago band Truth or Consequences New Mexico’s EP THIS TIME OF YEAR!Truth Or Consequences New Mexico – THIS TIME OF YEARGenre: Countrygaze, Post-CountryFavorite Tracks: “Honey, We’re In Hell!” “Between GA,” “Seed of Doubt”There’s just a lot to digest about Truth Or Consequences New Mexico’s sound.