The Alt Weekly Roundup (4/28/25)
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.
Plusser – “old car”
It’s only taken two years, but Plusser has finally put out a second song. It’s called “old car,” and it’s a noisy slacker rock jaunt that’s a little slower, a little scuzzier than “1 am,” but it’s a great sound for the Philly trio.
Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison
Myriads – Find Ourselves Again
Portland, OR, native Maria DeHart records as Myriads and over the past few months has been trickling out singles. Now Myriads’ second EP, Find Ourselves Again, is out in full, and it’s an impressive step forward from 2023’s Win Some, Lose Everyone. The pastoral lilt of “Folk Song in A” captures the stillness of Find Ourselves Again‘s striking artwork, and closer “Who Takes Care of You” takes the project into murkier territory, resulting in possibly the very best Myriads song yet.
Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison
Subsonic Eye – “Aku Cemas”
“When I was unemployed for a couple of months, I was feeling this restless feeling…. It was a funny feeling – I finally had the time to do whatever I wanted…. But this feeling of doom and uselessness just clouded over everything…. I didn’t want to be free again, I just wanted a job,” shares Subsonic Eye vocalist Nur Wahidah of the opening track and lead single from her band’s fifth LP Singapore Dreaming. As dark as its background and title may be, “Aku Cemas” (roughly: I’m nervous) is anything but–it’s a jangly, upbeat pop song, one that feels like a full embrace of the ability to do anything you want.
Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison
Yasmin Nur – Slaughter
Yasmin Nur’s Slaughter is crunchy and blustery, a tight thirty-minute debut that leaves everything on the table. The Wichita, KS, singer-songwriter calls herself “so sensitive / I’m romantic / and reactive” on the album’s blistering, grungy ender “I’m So Sensitive,” summing up the album’s entire arc in three lines; she matches the emotional palette with riffs thick enough to corral all those big feelings. “I feel so deep / it’s suffocating,” she growls later in the song, but most of Slaughter sounds like Nur’s breaking free.
Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison
Softcult – “Hard to Swallow”
It’s been a busy year for Toronto duo Softcult; they’ve already rereleased both EP pairs into a compilation sets, and they’ve indicated that their proper debut full-length will arrive later on in 2025. In the meantime, they’ve dropped a new single–presumably the leadoff from that LP. It’s called “Hard to Swallow,” and it’s the sort of crystalline dream-pop we’ve come to expect from the Arn-Horn siblings, boding quite well for whatever comes next.
Zac Djamoos | @gr8whitebison
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